But there are {272}no Kers now to slay the Provost, as in the sixteenth century days of Provost Muthag.
Over the hill, at Holydene, an ancient seat of the Kers of Cessford, there was also unearthed years ago within the walls of the old castle, a gigantic skeleton, by its side a very handsome sword.
But the Homes and the Kers returned, and spoiled the play for the outnumbered Scotts.
Henry VIII chivalrously destroyed this part of the border from the cottage to the castles of the Kers and the pleasant holy places of the Church, during the childhood of his kinswoman, Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots.
We are now in the region of the clan of Ker of Cessford, from which the ducal family descends: while the Lothian branch descends from the Kers of Fernihurst.
Westmoreland received shelter from the chieftains of the Kers and Scots, partisans of Mary; and persuaded them to make an inroad into England, with a view of exciting a quarrel between the two kingdoms.
Aboyne and the Gordons rode home on some private pique; and Montrose relied on men whom he had already proved to be broken reeds, the Homes and Kers (Roxburgh) of the Border, and the futile and timid Traquair.
The first of these was Robert Carr, or Ker, a young border Scot of the Kers of Fernihurst.
The Scotts and Kers and Elliots--names intimately associated with Border reiving in all its phases--have long held a foremost place in the political and social life of the country.
The Kers thirsted for vengeance, and were determined to "bide their time.
The noúkers kept their eye on the movements of their chief, and uttering their warcry, followed his steps, and overthrowing several of the soldiers, cleared a way for themselves into the road.
The Kers were all left-handed men, and puzzled their enemies by their left-handed swordsmanship.
Out of fifty-one hardy, healthy Kers who had started forth in the raid, only seventeen, weary and wounded, saw their homes again.
She had been taken captive, but word had came by an English spy that the Kers were out upon a raid, and while the English had set a hundred soldiers to guard their cattle she had slipped away to warn the Scots and to return with them.
The Kers were an important Border family, the leaders of whom afterwards became Earls of Roxburgh.
Vor beäkers an' meäkers o' tools Be all fools wi' Gruffmoody Grim.
We both hastened to assist the poor wretch; and what was Ammalát's astonishment when he recognized in him one of the noúkers of Sultan Akhmet Khan of Avár.
There caparisoned horses awaited them, and a crowd of noúkers were already in the saddle.
Ammalát knocked up two horses, and left two of his noúkers on the road, so that at the end of the second day he was not far from Khounzákh.
Ammalát Bek, having prepared his brave noúkers for battle or flight, looked impatiently at the sun, which seemed loth to descend from the warm sky to the chilly glaciers of the Caucasus.
The Kers afterwards observed that they always suspected that "Auld Wullie" (referring to the Prime Minister of the time) studied the reports of the Howpaslet school-board proceedings in the Bordershire Advertiser.
In his interests the Kers had assaulted and battered four fellow-Christians of the contrary opinion, and the Reverend William Henry Calvin had shaken his fist in the stern face of Dr.
But there was one element in the meeting that the Kers had taken no notice of.
The Kersrejoiced in first blood, but they kept their strategical theories to themselves, so as not to interfere with the designs of Saunders and Mr. Calvin.
His feeling against Duncan Rowallan was neither here nor there; but, indeed, the Kers were hard to bear.
Hutchison in a non-committal official way to show the Kers that he was not to be coerced into prayer by them.
So the Kers got word of it and sent round the fiery cross.
There was a murmur of rejoicing among the Kers outside, and thighs were quietly slapped with delight at the management of the question by the minister and Saunders.
As soon as he reached his favourite thinking stance, he forgot all about ecclesiastical politics and the strifes of the Kers with the minister.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
