Peeblesshire
Britishnoun
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The estate of Polmood, in Peeblesshire, was the subject of extraordinary litigation, and a volume of considerable bulk is devoted to its history.
From Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. by White, Adam
Poetically, the Tweed is said to take its rise in the tiny Tweed's Well among the Southern Highlands, 1250 feet above sea level, and close to where the marches of Peeblesshire, Lanarkshire, and Dumfriesshire meet.
From In the Border Country by W. S.
He settled himself, with this view, upon a patch of wild moorland at the bottom of a bank on the farm of Woodhouse, in the sequestered vale of the small river Manor, in Peeblesshire.
From The Black Dwarf by Scott, Walter, Sir
It is situated in Peeblesshire and is still to be seen.
From The Clan Fraser in Canada Souvenir of the First Annual Gathering by Fraser, Alexander
As I have said before, we were not popular in Peeblesshire.
From Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One by Asquith, Margot
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