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    glasgow


    1. I would prefer performing to the notorious audience at the Glasgow Empire to facing this evening … but I don’t have the option


    2. For Davie the round of check-ups at bars and the odd meeting with Jock’s business contacts moves him that little bit closer to the streets of Glasgow


    3. Maggie is sitting in the conservatory with Jock, who has buried himself in a copy of the Sunday Mail, which he has sent over on special order by the village shop so that he can feed his nostalgia for Glasgow


    4. Ken McCoist and Jock Cascarino, late of Barnstaple parish, formerly and briefly infamous for being run out of Glasgow city's nether regions by the Licensee, gaze out dumbly at a world fundamentally changed, and like dinosaurs grazing in the shadow of the comet, like the Romanov family in a cold country house parlour, they have no understanding of the revolution


    5. Through the greater part of the Low country, the most usual wages of common labour are now eight pence a-day ; tenpence, sometimes a shilling, about Edinburgh, in the counties which border upon England, probably on account of that neighbourhood, and in a few other places where there has lately been a considerable rise in the demand for labour, about Glasgow, Carron, Ayrshire, etc


    6. I have heard it asserted, that the trade of the city of Glasgow doubled in about fifteen years after the first erection of the banks there; and that the trade of Scotland has more than quadrupled since the first erection of the two public banks at Edinburgh; of which the one, called the Bank of Scotland, was established by act of parliament in 1695, and the other, called the Royal Bank, by royal charter in 1727


    7. Whether the trade, either of Scotland in general, or of the city of Glasgow in particular, has really increased in so great a proportion, during so short a period, I do not pretend to know


    8. In trade and industry, it is much inferior to Glasgow, of which the inhabitants are chiefly maintained by the employment of capital


    9. Sometimes William and Stan would be alone and, during those times, they discussed life and the antics of the people of Glasgow


    10. They also followed him around the Mosques of Edinburgh, Motherwell and Glasgow

    11. Stuart sat comfortably in his train seat as the train pulled past Haymarket station and began to travel West towards Glasgow and his destination of Milngavie


    12. The local police reinforced by the riot squads from London and Glasgow prepared to stand their ground


    13. The first real significant break came with the congregation of St George’s Tron in Glasgow deciding in 2012 to leave the Church of Scotland


    14. It was a congregation and a witness in central Glasgow of which the Kirk could be justly proud, in the best sense


    15. In fairness, neither the Presbytery of Glasgow nor the Kirk spokesmen in Edinburgh seemed to be in the mood to mend fences either


    16. The comments made through the Church of Scotland offices and the Presbytery of Glasgow have been generally milder, although tinged perhaps with more than a degree of complacency


    17. I was interested to see that the minister of the breakaway Tron congregation in Glasgow is already reporting a ten per cent rise in his congregation since leaving the Church of Scotland


    18. It is near Glasgow and is now open to the public


    19. We can send it to Glasgow for testing


    20. Send it to Glasgow

    21. My hands trembled as I dialed Jimmy’s number in Glasgow


    22. I had only to begin telling about my recent travels to send them to sleep each night, leaving me free to join the other colonials for a game of cards, a natter, or a walk through an oak forest to the ancient Aberfoyle Pub where Rob Roy was supposed to have wet his whistle, and they didn't mind serving me soft drink – unlike a pub in Glasgow where I was threatened with a thumping for daring to ask


    23. After a fair bit of beating round the bush he told me he’d recently endured an acrimonious divorce and, unable to remain in New Zealand for a variety of reasons, had returned to his roots and was teaching in Glasgow


    24. He sighed, smiled and told me he had a ‘friend’ in Glasgow and


    25. 8 below shows the categories found on the Glasgow Trading website


    26. Selection the most appropriate category on Glasgow Trading


    27. Reviewing the categories on the Glasgow Trading website, you can see that once


    28. Mike, Darren’s younger brother, had left the family home to go to university in Glasgow a year ago last September


    29. "Richard insisted I have it after he received his honorary doc-torate at the University of Glasgow," says Lippman


    30. Vincent McCauley of the University of Glasgow, came up with a migration about 65,000 years from Africa to India, Southeast Asia and an arrival roughly 50,000 years ago in Crocodile Dundee’s neck of the woods

    31. coast, almost to Glasgow, and then headed north


    32. Ye can see all of Glasgow


    33. Mr Iain McFadean (Glasgow Central): Would the Prime Minister agree that, when the constitutional position of Ireland has been changed as outlined in his statement, the point made earlier by my hon


    34. William Collins & Sons of Glasgow


    35. I found to my dismay that my “all singing and dancing” mobile phone whilst receiving mails via the group server in Glasgow, would not allow me to send mails due to some temporary incompatibility between the phone and the Glasgow server


    36. On the Tuesday that week he was done for speeding outside Glasgow


    37. And on the Friday his name was again taken outside a pub, in Glasgow again, where he and a couple of friends were caught crawling for ladies of the night


    38. and although the rate of change was minimal compared to Glasgow,


    39. Glasgow in hopes that an army might be recruited


    40. In Scotland we visited the two main cities, Glasgow and Edinburgh

    41. Glasgow was vast and sad and depressing


    42. before to ply her trade as a prostitute in the wicked city of Glasgow, but once her charms had


    43. I’m world famous in Glasgow, either that or paranoid,


    44. Dr Javid suggested Great Ormond Street in London, and specialist hospitals in Edinburgh and Glasgow


    45. One was in a draper's shop in Glasgow and the other was clerk to a tea- merchant in Belfast


    46. She lived with her married daughter in Glasgow and came to Dublin on a visit once a year


    47. She spoke also of the beautiful house her daughter kept in Glasgow, and of all the friends they had there


    48. Here were the Leith, Aberdeen, and Glasgow steamers, loading and unloading goods, and looking immensely high out of the water as we passed alongside; here, were colliers by the score and score, with the coal-whippers plunging off stages on deck, as counterweights to measures of coal swinging up, which were then rattled over the side into barges; here, at her moorings was to-morrow's steamer for Rotterdam, of which we took good notice; and here to-morrow's for Hamburg, under whose bowsprit we crossed


    49. He was, in his original, a lad of the place, who had gone into Glasgow, where he was in a topping line; and happening to be on a visit to his friends at the time, he came to the meeting and put down his name for twenty guineas, which he gave me in bank-notes—a sum of such liberality as had never been given to the town from one individual man, since the mortification of fifty pounds that we got by the will of Major Bravery that died in Cheltenham, in England, after making his fortune in India


    50. So I said nothing; only I got the town-clerk’s young man, who acted as clerk to the committee of the subscription, to make out a fair account of the distribution of the money, and to what intent the residue had been placed in the towntreasurer’s hand; and this I sent unto a friend in Glasgow to get printed for me, the which he did; and when I got the copies, I directed one to every individual subscriber, and sent the towndrummer an end’s errand with them, which was altogether a proceeding of a method and exactness so by common, that it not only quenched the envy of spite utterly out, but contributed more and more to give me weight and authority with the community, until I had the whole sway and mastery of the town




















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    "glasgow" definitions

    largest city in Scotland; a port on the Clyde in west central Scotland; one of the great shipbuilding centers of the world