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"Syne, upon a suddenty, and wi' the ae dreidfu' skelloch, Tod sprang up frae his hinderlands and fell forrit on the wab, a bluidy corp[...] grandfaither's siller tester in the puddock's heart of him." - p335 Phew! I think maybe a siller tester is a silver bullet. Pew pew!

Translate* from Scots: "There he sat, a muckle fat, white hash of a man, like creish, wi' a kind of a holy smile that gart me scunner. The hand of him aye cawed the shuttle, but his een was steeked. " - p330
*Robert Louis Stephenson was adamant that no footnotes be provided. Possibly steeked eens are closed eyes.

"But that's the strange thing about you folk of the college learning: ye're ignorant, and ye cannae see't. Wae's me for my Greek and Hebrew; but, man, I ken that I dinnae ken them - that's the differ of it. No, here's you. Ye lie on your wame a bittie in the bield of this wood, and ye tell me that ye've cuist off these Frasers and Macgregors. Why? *Because I couldnae see them* says you. Ye blockhead" - p301 hahaha

"There can nothing pass in the streets of a city without some following of idle folk and children." (Bro, still true 130yrs later)

"There is no greater wonder than the way the face of a young woman fits in a man's mind, and stays there, and he could never tell you why; it just seems it was the thing he wanted." - p218 (But only p4 of CATRIONA)

[...] his eyes were unusually light and had a kind of dancing madness in them, that was both engaging and alarming; and when he took off his great-coat, he laid a pair of fine, silver-mounted pistols on the table" - p50

If you can ignore the sexism and racism this is a good swashbuckle!