ellwand

` ` Can this be really true? '' said I. ` ` Pate swears it's as true as that his ellwand is a yard lang ---

Rob Roy 1887

“Can this be really true?” said I. “Pate swears it’s as true as that his ellwand is a yard lang — (and so it is, just bating an inch, that it may meet the

Rob Roy 2005

"Can this be really true?" said I. "Pate swears it's as true as that his ellwand is a yard lang -- (and so it is, just bating an inch, that it may meet the English measure) -- And when the chield had said his warst, there was a terrible cry for names, and out comes he wi 'this man Morris's name, and your uncle's, and Squire

Rob Roy — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801

"Can this be really true?" said I. "Pate swears it's as true as that his ellwand is a yard lang -- (and so it is, just bating an inch, that it may meet the English measure) -- And when the chield had said his warst, there was a terrible cry for names, and out comes he wi 'this man Morris's name, and your uncle's, and Squire

Rob Roy — Complete Walter Scott 1801

He was a gey (considerably) auld man than, but as straucht as an ellwand, and jist pooerfu 'beyon' belief.

Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

This legend of the "miraculously created ellwand standard" was afterwards duly attested by a weekly service in the Church of St. John of Beverley.

Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 James Young Simpson 1840

Methinks I see the pair upon the mountains of Tipperary -- John with a beard of three inches, united and blended with his shaggy black locks, an ellwand-looking cane with

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) 1824

A pedlar, too, who has got through a portion of the Excursion before the sun has illumed the mountain-tops, is mortifying, with his piled pack and ellwand.

Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819

A lively, bustling, arch fellow, whose pack, and oaken ellwand studded duly with brass points, denoted him to be of Autolycus's profession, occupied a good deal of the attention, and furnished much of the amusement, of the evening.

Kenilworth Walter Scott 1801

A lively, bustling, arch fellow, whose pack, and oaken ellwand studded duly with brass points, denoted him to be of Autolycus’s profession, occupied a good deal of the attention, and furnished much of the amusement, of the evening.

Kenilworth 2004