Kirkcudbrightshire
Britishnoun
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"Shooting on the river Doe, in Kirkcudbrightshire, Colonel Kennaway, Greenlaw, shot a fine specimen of the male gadwall, a comparatively rare visitor."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914 by Various
Tom tells me that you called on Mr. Haslam, with a newspaper giving an account of a gentleman in a Fur cap falling over a precipice in Kirkcudbrightshire.
From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by John Keats
DUMFRIESSHIRE, a border county of Scotland, bounded S. by the Solway Firth, S.E. by Cumberland, E. by Roxburghshire, N. by the shires of Lanark, Peebles and Selkirk, and W. by Ayrshire and Kirkcudbrightshire.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various
Next turns up in Scotland, assistant to a doctor there; name Mair, locality Kirkcudbrightshire.
From Elster's Folly by Mrs. Henry Wood
They entered next the country of Meg Merrilies, and from Kirkcudbrightshire crossed over to Ireland for a few days.
From Keats: Poems Published in 1820 by M. (Margaret) Robertson
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