| Whenever the local lairds tried to graze their beasts on the Selkirk commons hundreds of folk would turn out to drive them off. |
| I took the cure-all betimes, as the lairds tak' their mornin' o' French brandy. |
| 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. |
| In 1427, James I of Scotland passed an Act requiring all lairds to seek out and destroy wolves. |
| 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. |
| Whilst many lairds ' houses have survived, Stevenson House is particularly noteworthy as very few buildings of this type and calibre have survived. |
