Syne I called up Mattie and bade her light the lamp and convoy me down to the tolbooth. From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
Justiciary held in the tolbooth of Aberdeen, to answer to the undermentioned charges. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
"It cannot be the person you desired for the furnishing of our tolbooth the other day, Sim?" said he. From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
He remembered that Diana Vernon had left the library and immediately returned with the letter which was afterwards claimed by Rob Roy in the tolbooth of Glasgow. From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
Bolts were drawn, whispers passed in Gaelic, and presently Frank and his companion stood both of them in the vestibule of the tolbooth or public prison of Glasgow. From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
Alexander Bain Macdonald, both now prisoners in the tolbooth of. From Wordnik.com. [Trial of Duncan Terig, alias Clerk, and Alexander Bane Macdonald for the Murder of Arthur Davis, Sergeant in General Guise's Regiment of Foot] Reference
Ian Rullock, after lying two months in the tolbooth, has escaped. From Wordnik.com. [Foes] Reference
"First to the tolbooth, and then to the gallows," said Scoone. From Wordnik.com. [Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies] Reference
Scoone took him to his house till the keys of the tolbooth were had. From Wordnik.com. [Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies] Reference
However, he got Archer and five small children to Kirkaldy tolbooth. From Wordnik.com. [Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies] Reference
Douglas and Mr. George Hutcheson preached to him in the tolbooth on the. From Wordnik.com. [Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies] Reference
Bailie Jarvie can command entrance into the tolbooth at ony hour, day or night. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Roy] Reference
But I must be budging, cousin, for the air o 'Glasgow tolbooth is no that ower salutary to be a. From Wordnik.com. [The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III] Reference
Originally an office for collecting tolls, the tolbooth became a prison, with a scaffold outside. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
He was then carried back to the tolbooth through the guards, the people making lamentation for him by the way. From Wordnik.com. [Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies] Reference
When we first entered the tolbooth of Ayr, there came two and asked some things at me, but they were to little purpose. From Wordnik.com. [Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies] Reference
Which made him shift as well as he could for some time, till he was at last apprehended and imprisoned in the tolbooth of. From Wordnik.com. [Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies] Reference
But I must be budging, cousin, for the air o 'Glasgow tolbooth is no that ower salutary to a Highlander's constitution.' '. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Roy] Reference
I answered, That lies not yet in your power: so they caused quickly to take me away, and put me in the iron-house tolbooth. From Wordnik.com. [Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies] Reference
"And left us -- and, abune a ', me mysell, locked up in the tolbooth a' night!" exclaimed the Bailie, in ire and perturbation. From Wordnik.com. [The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III] Reference
"And left us -- and, abune a ', me, mysell, locked up in the tolbooth a' night!" exclaimed the Bailie, in ire and perturbation. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Roy — Complete] Reference
` ` And left us --- and, abune a ', me, mysell, locked up in the tolbooth a' night! 'exclaimed the Bailie, in ire and perturbation. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Roy] Reference
` ` And if they arena confined for debt, '' said Ochiltree, ` ` what is't that tempts sae mony puir creatures to bide in the tolbooth. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquary] Reference
` ` Conscience! if I am na clean bumbaized --- you, ye cheat-the-wuddy rogue --- you here on your venture in the tolbooth o 'Glasgow?. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Roy] Reference
Wylie made a great splutter, and amongst other imprecations said, The devil take me, if I carry him not to Couper tolbooth this night. From Wordnik.com. [Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies] Reference
Yettlin, the smith, and let him ken that Bailie Jarvie's shut up in the tolbooth by a Hieland blackguard, whom he'll hang up as high as. From Wordnik.com. [The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III] Reference
Mr. Welch was sent first to Edinburgh tolbooth, and then to Blackness; and so from prison to prison, till he was banished to France, never to see Scotland again. From Wordnik.com. [Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies] Reference
"And am I myself," cried the angry Bailie, "to be locked up in the tolbooth all night?. From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
For the air of the Glasgow tolbooth is no that over salutary to a Highland constitution. ". From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
Walkwary, or be carried to the hills by the whigs, or be taen to the tolbooth by the red-coats.”. From Wordnik.com. [Old Mortality] Reference
But I go out of here free as I came in, or the very walls of Glasgow tolbooth shall tell the tale these ten years to come! ". From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
But I must be budging, cousin, for the air o’ Glasgow tolbooth is no that ower salutary to a Highlander’s constitution.”. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Roy] Reference
“Conscience! if I am na clean bumbaized — you, ye cheat-the-wuddy rogue — you here on your venture in the tolbooth o’ Glasgow? —. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Roy] Reference
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