Between sogers and Saxons, and caterans and cattle-lifters, and hership and bluidshed, an honest woman wad live quieter in hell than on the Hieland line.
Upon the occasion alluded to, a party ofCaterans carried off the bridegroom, and secreted him in some cave near the mountain of Schehallion.
Your breakfast will be a disturbed one, Captain Waverley, A party of Caterans have come down upon us, last night, and have driven off all our milch cows.
There were loop-holes for musketry, and iron stanchions on the lower windows, probably to repel any roving band of gipsies, or resist a predatory visit from the Caterans of the neighbouring Highlands.
NOTE 17 The story of the bridegroom carried off by caterans on his bridal- day is taken from one which was told to the author by the late Laird of Mac-Nab many years since.
Upon the occasion alluded to, a party of caterans carried off the bridegroom and secreted him in some cave near the mountain of Schiehallion.
There were loop-holes for musketry, and iron stanchions on the lower windows, probably to repel any roving band of gypsies, or resist a predatory visit from the caterans of the neighbouring Highlands.
A party of Caterans have come down upon us last night, and have driven off all our milch cows.
For a series of years, Donald Campbell had been very much exposed to the depredations of a set of caterans or gipsies, who frequently kept him in a state of siege in his tower.
Two days afterwards the king's troops arrived; but the nest was cold, and not one trace of the caterans could be found.
Circumstances have induced me to believe that the leader of the caterans who pursued me so long--who harried my lands, and injured my crops--was that son.
The defence had been well ordered; and it required little observation to see that the chief of the caterans was skilled in military tactics.
And so, my dear lads, you wish me to relate my passage with the Caterans of Lochloy?
Everything remained as it had been the preceding evening, with this, to us, very pleasant exception, that the band of caterans was nowhere to be seen.
But he had lost his energy; and it was not until the attack upon the caterans that he again became the Ranald More of olden times.
While pursuing this occupation he became acquainted with many of the ferocious caterans who were at that time following the same calling.
A pleasanter sight by far than a string of dangling caterans was the great annual tryst, or Michaelmas Market.
A loud noise now approached the house; the door was burst open, and three naked caterans entered the apartment, with bloodstained swords gleaming in their hands.
With these words the two caterans left the house, and joined the other soldiers who were careering through the city, and slaying every Anglicised Scot that came in their way.
NOTE 17 The story of the bridegroom carried off by caterans on his bridal-day is taken from one which was told to the author by the late Laird of Mac-Nab many years since.
We got down before the dusk fell, and were the first of its returning inhabitants to behold what a scandal of charred houses and robbed chests the Athole and Antrim caterans had left us.
If these Athole and Antrim caterans have the secret of our passes, we may be rats in a trap before the morn's morning.
The successful caterans would bring with them herds and flocks.
The caterans swarmed down once more from the mountains and isles, and every petty tyrant of a robber laird threw off whatever bond of law had been forced upon him in King James's golden days.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "caterans" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
