I fought the queen of elfland, song for song and saved my love from her unholy teind. ❋ Shweta_narayan (2010)
Seen is nothing like that story, but "how did Faerie wind up having to pay a teind to Hell?" has been one of those questions that has been like a rock in my shoe since I first read Tam Lin. ❋ Kat Howard (2010)
I never had to call gaaldine to say that I was definitely unexpectedly pregnant by a man who was about to be the Queen of Air and Darkness's teind. ❋ Timprov (2008)
Mr. R---- d of Bowland, a gentleman of landed property in the vale of Gala, was prosecuted for a very considerable sum, the accumulated arrears of teind (or tithe) for which he was said to be indebted to a noble family, the titulars (lay impropriators of the tithes.) ❋ Various (N/A)
The Bischop of Murray, (then being Priour of Sanctandross, [133]) and his factouris, urgeid him for the teind thairof. ❋ John Knox (N/A)
Mondays a sacred daysos Tuesdayand Wednesday, we are to be heard in the great teind case in presenceBut stayits frosty weather, and if you dont leave town, and that venison would keep till Thursday4 ❋ Unknown (1917)
Nothing, however, is known of the religious beliefs and cults of these early peoples, except the fact that every seven years they made a human sacrifice to their god — 'And aye at every seven years they pay the teind to hell' — and that like the Khonds they stole children from the neighbouring races and brought them up to be the victims. ❋ Margaret Alice Murray (1913)
As already stated, King Alexander II. granted the teind of his duties of Auchterarder, and, by a subsequent charter, amongst other grants he confirmed the grant of these churches to Inchaffray. ❋ John Hunter (1883)
King Alexander II., by charter, dated at Cluny, the 13th day of August, in the eleventh year of his reign (1227), granted to the Canons of the Abbey of Inchaffray the teind of his duties of Auchterarder to be drawn yearly by the hands of his tacksmen and bailies of Auchterarder. ❋ John Hunter (1883)
The fairy tax, tithe, or teind, paid to Hell, is illustrated by old trials for witchcraft, in Scotland. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)
Mr. Rutherfurd of Bowland, a gentleman of landed property in the vale of Gala, was prosecuted for a very considerable sum, the accumulated arrears of teind (or tithe) for which he was said to be indebted to a noble family, the titulars (lay impropriators of the tithes). ❋ Unknown (1845)
The Antiquary, as we informed the reader in the end of the thirty-first chapter, had shaken off the company of worthy Mr. Blattergowl, although he offered to entertain him with an abstract of the ablest speech he had ever known in the teind court, delivered by the procurator for the church in the remarkable case of the parish of Gatherem. ❋ Unknown (1845)
` ` Decreet of certification having gone out, and parties being held as confessed, the proof seemed to be held as concluded, when their lawyer moved to have it opened up, on the allegation that they had witnesses to bring forward, that they had been in the habit of carrying the ewes to lamb on the teind-free land; which was a mere evasion, for '' ------ ❋ Unknown (1845)
The conversation was now in some danger of flagging, or of falling into the hands of Mr. Blattergowl, who had just pronounced the formidable word, ` ` teind-free, '' when the subject of the French Revolution was started --- a political event on which Lord Glenallan looked with all the prejudiced horror of ❋ Unknown (1845)
On reaching the Betsey, we found a pail and basket laid against the companion-head, -- the basket containing about two dozen small trout, -- the minister's unsolicited teind of the morning draught; the pail filled with razor-fish of great size. ❋ Hugh Miller (1829)
` ` What have I been paying stipend and teind, parsonage and vicarage, for, ever sin the aughty-nine, and I canna get a spell of a prayer for't, the only time I ever asked for ane in my life? ❋ Unknown (1822)
Monday's a sacred day; so's Tuesday; and Wednesday we are to be heard in the great teind case in presence, but stay -- it's frosty weather, and if you don't leave town, and that venison would keep till Thursday -- ' ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
The conversation was now in some danger of flagging, or of falling into the hands of Mr. Blattergowl, who had just pronounced the formidable word, "teind-free," when the subject of the French Revolution was started -- a political event on which Lord Glenallan looked with all the prejudiced horror of a bigoted Catholic and zealous aristocrat. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
