Argyllshire

Whilst on a golfing holiday at the Ugadale Arms Hotel at Machrihanish, near Campbeltown in Argyllshire, Scotland, on July 30, 1926 (p. 15), for example, J.W. Trumble wrote the following measured, if somewhat leaden critique of the then state of test wickets.

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He would give his young wife everything that heart of woman (in Argyllshire) could desire.

Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago Margaret 1891

This was a mistake, for Lord John would have considered himself quite as free to attempt a flirtation with Drumcarro's daughter in Argyllshire as in London, and with as little intention of any serious result, the daughter of a poor laird however high in descent, being as entirely below the level of the Duke's son as the mantua-maker.

Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago Margaret 1891

She was of the Drumcarro family in Argyllshire, who it is well known are the elder branch of all; and she was well known not only as the stand-by of her family, but as the friend of the poor and struggling everywhere.

Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago Margaret 1891

I saw much of your family – in Argyllshire – before I went to India.

Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago Margaret 1891

The gale rose again after sunrise, and when, after doing sixty miles in fourteen hours, we reached the heads of Hakodate Harbour, it was blowing and pouring like a bad day in Argyllshire, the spin-drift was driving over the bay, the Yezo mountains loomed darkly and loftily through rain and mist, and wind and thunder, and

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Three years later in 1972 the Shand Kydds bought a 1,000-acre farm on the isle of Seil, south of Oban in Argyllshire, where Mrs Shand Kydd lives today.

DIANA ANDREW MORTON 1992

Three years later in 1972 the Shand Kydds bought a 1,000-acre farm on the isle of Seil, south of Oban in Argyllshire, where Mrs Shand Kydd lives today.

DIANA ANDREW MORTON 1992

We have already commented upon the return for the Oban D.vision of Argyllshire of Mr.D. H. MacFarlane, who enjoys the distinction of being the first Catholic member of Parliament returned by Scotland since the so-called Reformation.

Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886 Various

In the mean time, as the reader is perhaps tired of all this talk about books, and I would fain part with him in good humour, I venture to take him on an imaginary ramble in the wilds of Argyllshire, in search of specimens of ancient native sculpture, that he may have an opportunity of noticing how much has yet to be gleaned off this stony field.

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