Borough Town

Send down to the borough-town for what meal you can gather. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The cavalcade of horsemen on their road to the little borough-town were preceded by Niel Blane, the town-piper, mounted on his white galloway, armed with his dirk and broadsword, and bearing a chanter streaming with as many ribbons as would deck out six country belles for a fair or preaching. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Let a stranger be introduced, for the first time, to an election, let him be shown a multitude of men reeling about the streets of a borough-town, fighting within an inch of their lives, smashing windows at the Black Bear, or where ❋ Various (N/A)

Why, man, though I gave her a wipe with my hanger in the heat of the matter, and cut her arm, and though she was so long after in trouble about it up at your borough-town there, der deyvil! old Meg was as true as steel. ❋ Unknown (1917)

If you go on, you fall into their hands -- if you turn back towards the borough-town, you are in no less danger from ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

Why, man, though I gave her a wipe with my hanger in the heat of the matter, and cut her arm, and though she was so long after in trouble about it up at your borough-town there, der deyvil! old Meg was as true as steel. ' ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

Did we ever want to send for tea or brandy frae the borough-town when Dirk Hatteraick used to come quietly into the bay? ' ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

Did we ever want to send for tea or brandy frae the borough-town when ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

Why, man, though I gave her a wipe with my hanger in the heat of the matter, and cut her arm, and though she was so long after in trouble about it up at your borough-town there, der deyvil! old ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

St. Ives is a borough-town, governed by a mayor, 12 capital and ❋ Unknown (1778)

If you go on, you fall into their hands — if you turn back towards the borough-town, you are in no less danger from Cornet Grahame’s party. — ❋ Unknown (2004)

Why, man, though I gave her a wipe with my hanger in the heat of the matter, and cut her arm, and though she was so long after in trouble about it up at your borough-town there, der deyvil! old Meg was as true as steel.’ ❋ Unknown (1815)

Did we ever want to send for tea or brandy frae the borough-town when Dirk Hatteraick used to come quietly into the bay?’ ❋ Unknown (1815)