“’Taint mine,” laughed Lambert, “but if you asked me to make a rough guess——” “But I don’t ask you to make a rough guess,” interrupted Ned.
— from Sailor Jack, the Trader by Harry Castlemon

This line at first follows the course of the Teith, “daughter of three mighty lakes,” past Doune Castle, not Burns’s “Bonnie Doon,” but an imposing monument of feudal struggles and crimes, that has housed many a royal guest, if not, as one of its parish ministers gravely declares for unquestionable, Fitz-James himself on the night before his adventurous chase.
— from Bonnie Scotland Painted by Sutton Palmer; Described by A.R. Hope Moncrieff by A. R. Hope (Ascott Robert Hope) Moncrieff