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"Kilted" Quotes from Famous Books

... few long-hoarded pennies in his hand Behold him stand; A kilted Hedonist, perplexed and sad. The joy that once he had, The first delight of ownership is fled. He bows his little head. Ah, cruel Time, to ...

— Trees and Other Poems • Joyce Kilmer

... the fair maidens on Rumbollow green There was nane sae fair as me, Wi' my kilted kirtle o' mazarine, And buckles as bright as the siller sheen, And my coatie o' cramosie, Balow! ...

— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. • Revised by Alexander Leighton

... no treacherous chief betray For sordid gain our new Strathspey; No fearful king, no statesmen pale, Wrench the strong claymore from the Gael. With arm'd wrist and kilted knee, No prairie Indian half so free: Stand ...

— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various

... Scotch variant of the new army song, but the Scots have not altogether abandoned their own marching airs, and it is a stirring thing to hear the chorus of "The Nut-Brown Maiden," for instance, sung in the Gaelic tongue as these kilted soldiers swing forward on the long white ...

— Tommy Atkins at War - As Told in His Own Letters • James Alexander Kilpatrick

... waggons and water-carts, ambulances, and doolies, and spare teams of old mules in new harness. A couple of squadrons of Lancers had off-saddled by the roadside, a phalanx of horses topped with furled red and white pennons. Behind them stood a battery of artillery. Half a battalion of green-kilted Gordons sunned their bare knees a little lower down; a company or two of Manchesters back-boned the flabby convoy. The staff officer could not make out what in the ...

— From Capetown to Ladysmith - An Unfinished Record of the South African War • G. W. Steevens