"Shetland Islands" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... university: "Gazing round the room, I noted that my competitors consisted of raw-boned red-haired Highlandmen, fresh from their native hills, with all their rusticity about them. All the northern counties had sent their quota to swell the number, and even the Orkney and Shetland Islands were represented. Many rosy-faced young fellows were also to be seen, who had left their country occupations for a little, and who, if unsuccessful"—i.e., in gaining a bursary—"would return to them, and work in ...
— The Book-Hunter - A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author • John Hill Burton
... which is frequently seen on the north coast of Scotland amongst the Hebrides and Shetland Islands, and the sea bear of Cape Horn and the Magellan Straits, are both very similar in their general habits to the Greenland seal of the Esquimaux; and the animals usually herd together in flocks or droves of some thirty to a hundred, ...
— Fritz and Eric - The Brother Crusoes • John Conroy Hutcheson
... particularly applicable to the north of Scotland, whales being frequently seen off the Orkney and Shetland Islands. ...
— The Student's Companion to Latin Authors • George Middleton
... the Shetland Islands, "on Christmas Eve, the fourth of January,—for the old style is still observed—the children go a guizing, that is to say, they disguising themselves in the most fantastic and gaudy costumes, parade the streets, and infest the ...
— Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I. • Sir James George Frazer |
