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But when the cicerone proceeded to point out a small hillock near the centre of the enclosure as the Prtorium, Corydon's patience could hold no longer, and, like Edie Ochiltree, he forgot all reverence, and broke in with nearly the same words --- ` ` Prtorium here, Prtorium there, I made the bourock mysell with a flaughter-spade. ''

The Antiquary 1845

We scaled together the steep granitic hill immediately over the town, and then cut on the stack, straight as the bird flies, across a trackless common, bare and stony, and miserably pared by the _flaughter_ spade.

The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland Hugh Miller 1829

Other traits may have been suggested by John Clerk of Eldin, whose grandfather was the hero of the story "Praetorian here, Praetorian there, I made it wi 'a flaughter spade."

The Antiquary — Complete Walter Scott 1801

But when the cicerone proceeded to point out a small hillock near the centre of the enclosure as the Praetorium, Corydon's patience could hold no longer, and, like Edie Ochiltree, he forgot all reverence, and broke in with nearly the same words -- "Praetorium here, Praetorium there, I made the bourock mysell with a flaughter-spade."

The Antiquary — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801

But when the cicerone proceeded to point out a small hillock near the centre of the enclosure as the Praetorium, Corydon's patience could hold no longer, and, like Edie Ochiltree, he forgot all reverence, and broke in with nearly the same words -- "Praetorium here, Praetorium there, I made the bourock mysell with a flaughter-spade."

The Antiquary — Complete Walter Scott 1801

Other traits may have been suggested by John Clerk of Eldin, whose grandfather was the hero of the story "Praetorian here, Praetorian there, I made it wi 'a flaughter spade."

The Antiquary — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801

Mr, Korabiniky mentions in his Lexicon, as a proof of the greatnets of its herds, that a certain Bir6 is faid often to have driven ten thou - land heftd of cattle upon the neighbouring common; atid that in the year 1739, when on account of the feverity and length of the winter a fcardty of fodder prevailed, and it was requifite to flaughter more than eight thouiknd head, they were never miflc; d»

Travels in Hungary, with a short account of Vienna in the year 1793 1797

Both horfe and foot now poured down upon them, afTailed them in front and in flank, forced them from their ground, drove fomcof them back into the bog, purfued them with flaughter, and took feveral prifoners of note; while St. Ruth exclaimed in an exftacy of joy,

Derriana: A Collection of Papers Relative to the Siege of Derry, and Illustrative of the ... G. Douglas 1794

It is the expences, more than the flaughter, of modem hoftilities, which debilitate every commu-*.

An Estimate of the Comparative Strength of Great Britain, During the Present and Four Preceding ... 1794

At length juftice triumphed, the caftle was forced, and a cruel flaughter enfued.

The Jockey Club; Or a Sketch of the Manners of the Age. Part the Third Charles Pigott 1793