Their feathers dance, their tartans float, Their targets gleam, as by the boat A wild and warlike group they stand, That well became such mountain strand.
Three times in closing strife they stood, And thrice the Saxon blade drank blood; No stinted draught, no scanty tide, The gushing flood the tartans dyed.
But the shop windows will be full of tartans for your edification, and you will find your cabman able to tell you all you want to know.
Sir Walter Scott clad in Campbell tartans at a muster of the Celtic Club; and a little later an inimitable scene took place in the dining-room of 39 Castle Street.
It's a sore travail, and round a few black tartans I see many men in grey, pressing them hard; ochone, ochone.
Was I asleep when I saw the tartans go down the stairs?
Highland regiments do not wear the kilt on Indian service; indeed the tartansare not brought out from home.
I remember the young fellow coming home on furlough, and the sensation among the simple folk as he swaggered up to the kirk in his flowing tartans and with the ostrich-feather bonnet on his handsome head.
The bright colours in the various tartansare said to have been extracted, leaving only the dark green ground.
A few instants before, and their tartans ranged dark in the valley; now their plumes waved on the crest.
Waverley sprung up, and, with Callum's assistance and instructions, adjusted his tartans in proper costume.
All down the slopes towards Loos lay the tartans Gordon and Black Watch, Seaforth and Cameron, like the drift left on the shore when the tide has ebbed.
Owing to the difficulty of getting the different tartans and keeping up a supply in France, the War Office introduced an article called the "universal kilt.
I thought all this while I was closely concealed from them, and wondered not a little when he in tartans gave me a sly nod, as much as to say, 'What do you think of this?
The solitary traveller trudged listlessly along in his brown lowland greatcoat, his tartans dyed black or purple, to comply with or evade the law which prohibited their being worn in their variegated hues.
Being the first corps raised for the royal service in the Highlands, and allowed to retain their national garb, they were thus named from the contrast which their dark tartans furnished to the scarlet and white of the other regiments.
As the clans marched up the hill and between the lions, I could see the bright red tartans of the Frasers, the black and green of the Gordons, and the beautiful parti-colors of the Stewarts.
Tartans were displayed in all the colors of the rainbow.
After these come the Campbells, red gentlemen in dark tartans with faces singularly contained and hard light eyes.
He was distinguished from his followers by the faded laced cloth coat under his plaid, the pistols in his belt, and his high cowskin boots, the others being barefoot and wearing nothing but their tartans and rude garments of untanned leather.
Waverley sprang up, and, with Callum's assistance and instructions, adjusted histartans in proper costume.
The result proved that it needed more than the tartansto constitute the genuine Highlander—the dauntless native courage being wanting.
With a friend of mine, in our hot youth, I had gone in to swim, when on the lake bank we heard a stern voice and looked back to see Sir Robert’s tartans waving over our clothes.
The glow of tartans here revived by what a German might call “Sunday Highlanders,” is but a Vanity Fair.
Now it is affected rather by the upper class; and the soldiers who swagger so jauntily in tartans are more like to have grown up in corduroy breeks.
Here an outlawed David in tartans lays his sword on the throat of a sleeping Saul, then awakens him to reconciliation.
But as usual, the victorious onrush at Killiecrankie did not carry the tartans far.
The tartans are dyed by the blood of a hundred battlefields, as by memories of green braes and purple moors.
You may buy Scott and Douglas tartansin the shops, but they seem vain things, fondly invented, as indeed are some of the patterns now seen in the Highlands.
Over adjacent clans, the powerful Macallum More had too much played the tyrant; then it was hatred to the Campbells as much as loyalty to Charles or James that brought so many tartans round the banner of Montrose and Dundee.
The real shepherd's plaid of Scotland is of a plainer character, being merely black and white, but it is in the special tartans of the Scotch clans that we find the system of coloured lines and squares carried to great perfection.
In order to get out of the port, we had to tack between the sleeping tartans and schooners.
Three tartans with their lateen sails, one red and the other two white, are detained in the channel between Sainte-Marguerite and the mainland.
They always donned their belts and dress tartans for dinner, and were a good deal admired.
Neither stockings nor shoes nor caps had they, winter or summer, and when they grew up many of them would join the army, and be first in every bayonet charge where tartans would wave and bonnets nod.
These tartans have exerted a very marked effect on the Scottish sense of taste.
As he spoke, he opened his gray habit, and showed me the mailed tartans beneath.
Three times in closing strife they stood, And thrice the Saxon blade drank blood; 390 No stinted draft, no scanty tide, The gushing flood the tartans dyed.
Their feathers dance, their tartans float, Their targets gleam, as by the boat A wild and warlike group they stand, 685 That well became such mountain-strand.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tartans" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
