Then came the pardon, to me of inestimable value, as under it I could shelter myself from all consequences, even had any one recognised the cateran chief in the heir of the Laird of Dungyle and Inshannock.
No longer was he hunted by the cateran chief--no more were his lands devastated, or his cattle carried off.
Then pressing my proffered hand in his, he turned away; and in a few minutes the Highland cateran was out of sight.
Who thinks of the ancient cateran fire smouldering under a frock-coat, or would imagine that the cry of “Cruachan!
Himself he had been brought up far apart from the scenes of his cateran family, in a decent humdrum fashion in the Low County, where he had studied the law, and whence he had come to his native isle a writer.
Wulf laughed, but found him surprising, as the cateran spirit of his forebears came uppermost with this tremendous opportunity.
At bottom this man was just a wild Highland cateran with a dash of Spanish buccaneer, hot-blooded, avid of gain under circumstances so propitious, insatiable.
But what is that long-haired, bare-legged cateran screaming about with his arms going like a windmill?
Who so likely as MacPhadraick to indicate to a young cateran the glen in which he could commence his perilous trade with most prospect of success?
There is a cateran for you, and, mind you, a good fellow too.
Very likely my drover was a true blue Presbyterian, and his minister as genuine a cateran as himself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cateran" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
