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Meanings of highland gentleman in English

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Usage of highland gentleman in English
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Two influential Highland gentlemen secured him an appointment in the Customs at Liverpool.
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume 6. / The Songs of Scotland ...
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DUINHE-WASSEL, dunniewassal, a Highland gentleman, usually the cadet of a family of rank.
Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since — Volume 1
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That is spoken like a true Highland gentleman, Sim.
Doom Castle
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His son, as a Highland gentleman, would lead men to battle, and not merely accompany them.
All in It : K(1) Carries On
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The West Highland Line Alex MacDonald is a softly spoken railway man, and a true Highland gentleman.
BBC
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My father is a Highland gentleman.
Doom Castle
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A Highland gentleman or chief, however, dressed in the same garb as Englishmen-thatis, in armor, with doublet and hose.
Friends, though divided: A Tale of the Civil War
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As true as I'm a Highland gentleman, and my name is McAllister, that craft ahead of us is the Audacieuse.
Marmaduke Merry: A Tale of Naval Adventures in Bygone Days
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You wanted to give due declaration of war, and you have done it at close quarters, which is the action of a Highland gentleman.
The Black Colonel
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It escaped, he would say, when it was most needed, and that might, at times, leave the best of Highland gentlemen by the wayside.
The Black Colonel
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"Why," he rated Red Murdo, "you can neither steal nor lie, as a Highland gentleman's ghillie should.
The Black Colonel
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"Donald has gone to the Caledonian club; there is to be a grand gathering of Highland gentlemen there to-night."
Scottish sketches
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Now sixty-two, MacLeod struck Boswell as a perfect "representative of a Highland gentleman"-althoughhe wore breeches and a plaid jacket instead of a kilt.
How the scots invented the modern world: the true story of how w...
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