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How to use lairds in a sentence

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Whenever the local lairds tried to graze their beasts on the Selkirk commons hundreds of folk would turn out to drive them off.
Lairds may come and lairds may go, but the long-running BBC series Monarch of the Glen has retained its setting at the heart of Badenoch.
In 1427, James I of Scotland passed an Act requiring all lairds to seek out and destroy wolves.
Whilst many lairds ' houses have survived, Stevenson House is particularly noteworthy as very few buildings of this type and calibre have survived.
His big election idea is to persuade Highland lairds owning more than 5000 acres to part with 10 acres of land for housing to benefit surrounding local communities.
This rank is only held by those lairds holding official recognition in a territorial designation by the Lord Lyon King of Arms.
The continued existence of courts baron and the introduction of kirk sessions helped consolidate the power of local lairds.
The continued existence of courts baron and introduction of kirk sessions helped consolidate the power of local lairds.
Not so circumscribed in expedient for the reduction of surplus wealth were those lairds of the lariat who had womenfolk to their name.
An act of 1587 granted the lairds of each shire the right to send two commissioners to every parliament.
Both of these lairds had embraced the new religious ideas of the Reformation.
It was led by adventurers James Hamilton and Sir Hugh Montgomery, two Ayrshire lairds.
In common with many of the new highland lairds, Colonel Gordon expelled most of the inhabitants to make way for sheep farming.
The system of kirk sessions gave considerable power within the new kirk to local lairds, who were able to take on the dignity and authority of an elder.
In 1997, the Brockets were cited by Tony Blair ina speech attacking hereditary peers.CELEBRITY toff Lord Brocket is the grandson of one of Scotland's most hated lairds.
Below these were the lairds, roughly equivalent to the English gentlemen.
In January 1488, in Parliament, James tried to gain supporters by making his second son Duke of Ross and four Lairds full Lords of Parliament.
Originally located close to Woodside Ferry Terminal, the site had been redeveloped as part of Cammell Lairds ship builders.
Lairds reigned over their estates like princes, their castles forming a small court.
Ross Hannah equalised for Belper on 40 minutes and with time ticking away Lairds nearly regained the lead but leading scorer Alex Hay skyed his shot over the bar.
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I took the cure-all betimes, as the lairds tak' their mornin' o' French brandy.
Among his forbears had been wild moss-troopers and cattle-reivers, lairds of their own lands, as powerful as kings in their own countryside.
The second half saw Lairds maintain their dominance and made it two when Thomas Rooney rounded the keeper to double the advantage.
One of the Lairds was Birkenhead's first member of Parliament.
The ancient family-seat of the Lairds of Buccleuch, near hawick.
Lairds is officially back seven years after the business collapsed in the wake of a contract disaster.
Third-placed Grantham took Lairds to the cleaners with a bag full of goals that left the Wirral outfit stunned.
Lairds had the chances in the first half to demonstrate their two division advantage over their Lancashire hosts, but were not clinical enough in front of goal.
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