"We have heard of your wild doings with the Bairds.

'Tis a pity that these feuds should go on, from father to son, ever getting more and more bitter.
But there, we can no more change a borderer's nature than you can stop the tide in the Solway.

I hear that it was well nigh a pitched battle." "There was hard fighting," Oswald replied.

"Three of our troopers, and eight or ten of the others were killed.

My father was twice wounded, one of the Hopes was killed, and a Liddel severely wounded.