He'd cried out, in the last scrap, urging Benny to demolish a Jew, ‘Hit him, he's only a shonicker.’

He was made one of the guardians of the young king James IV. but soon lost influence, being superseded by the Homes and Hepburns, and the wardenship of the marches was given to Alexander Home.

He unfolded the chlamys, stretched it out with both hands before me, and then cast it over my shoulders.

The author painted a good portrait of urban life in New York in his latest book.