Their colonel, Cleland, fell in this fight with the barelegged foes he had satirised in verse bristling with scornful hatred of the “Highland host” brought down as a scourge for the west-country Covenanters.
Here a barelegged laddie, with the rudest tackle, has been known to hook a 30-lb.
Or perhaps you're on the other side of the hedge--implicated in this barelegged rebellion, I dare say.
Perhaps I have a mind to join your barelegged rebellion.
Barefooted andbarelegged Celts strutted about the city with their bonnets scrugged low on their heads, the hair hanging wild over their eyes and the matted beards covering their faces.
Leah, who was just posing for Rachel's barelegged gypsy, hastily pulled a long silk skirt from haughty but unresisting Silentia and hurried it over her own head before Lady Diavoletta was admitted.
As we returned toward it at evening we saw the gallant major standing barelegged on the edge of the canyon, gesticulating wildly, his saddle-bags and toilette matters far below beside the creek.
Maybe she would go barefoot, too--or at least barelegged and in sneakers, like Dickie and Neil.
Ralph wore long pants and shirt of khaki and heavy shoes and stockings, but Dickie and Neil were barelegged in sneakers, and their old shirts and knickers, like their hands, might have been cleaner.
She wasbarelegged and barearmed, her tiny limbs burned a dark red by the sun, and she wore a single garment made from the leg of a patched pair of overalls.
She saw it all and she knew it all, and looked for Alan MacGregor among those coming barelegged to the fore with the weird music which has for centuries meant ever pluck, and sometimes conquest.
In spite of his contemptible appearance after a day's toil, working barelegged in the mire, she welcomed him with the grace of a princess.
Son and mother once more faced poverty and loneliness, and Musai again splashedbarelegged in the rice field.
I turned and looked down the Boston Road; the little barelegged drummer stood up.
Back along the muddy Bedford Road trudged the remnants of the scattered Lexington company of militia; the little barelegged drummer posted himself in front of the Meeting-house once more, and drummed the assembly.
The little barelegged drummer nodded seriously; the old Louisburg drum rumbled out the route-march.
This was another sair blow to the poor cottagers, and was the cause of their bairns gaun barelegged in winter and hungry in summer.
There were originally three brothers of them; and when I first kenned them, they were ragged, barelegged callants, but every one of them as keen as a Jew, and as hard as a flinty rock.
Yesterday I saw a man standing bareheaded and barelegged in the mud and misty weather, playing on a fife, in hopes to get a circle of auditors.
I still observe little girls and other children barelegged and barefooted on the wet sidewalks.
The summons was answered by the barelegged girl who acted as waiter in the inn.
The sheep are in charge of a rough little dog with a cast in one eye and a slim, barelegged girl who apologizes a dozen times to monsieur the engineer between her cries to her flock.
Far up the hillside a mile back of the churchyard, a barelegged girl driving a cow stopped to listen, her hood pushed back, her brown hands crossed upon her breast.
Now, it would not be easy for us to say what were the latter's intentions regarding the littlebarelegged boy; and for this simple reason--that he did not well know himself.
Need we add, that this Mr M'Arthur was no other than the little kilted, barelegged Highland boy whom we introduced to the reader at the outset of our story.
Such is the story--and a true tale it is--of the little barelegged and bareheaded Highland boy whom we saw running wild on the banks of Loch Awe.
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