...Yet, even in the centre of the thunder-cloud the darkness was not absolute. Glints of sunshine painted the green on the bracken and the purple on the heather ; and, from the top of Tarsuin, I saw a streak of silver beyond Jura, which accounts, perhaps, for this extraordinary...

...lifted wi' the sun. We took a short cut across Ben Noosh, — sendin' the pockmankey (which was weekly, as you may believe) roun' by the Ivanhoe. The Mountain...Donald, as he gaed us oor tickets, after seein' the slots hoisted in wi' the landing -tackle. "We have the Grand International Social, Scientific, and...

...We took a short cut across Ben Noosh,—sendin' the pockmankey (ivhich was weehly, as you may Miere) roun ' by the Ivanhoe. The Mountain o' the Wun, steeped...the tap o' Tarsuin we saw a streak o' silver in the west—which betokened fine weather at sea. " It will be a goot day to-morrow whatever," said the Sergeant...