Historic Scottish county

Usage examples of argyll.

Toby Argyll had lived was gracious but obviously was let in a series of rooms, as suited single men rather than families.

Alan Argyll stood in the entrance, pale-faced, his eyes dark in the lamplight.

Toby Argyll, fell off the Westminster Bridge earlier this evening, and although we reached him within a few minutes, he was already dead.

But Orme was mistaken in his second guess: Jenny Argyll chose to see them.

And had she meant to take Argyll with her, or was he trying, even at the risk of his own life, to save her?

Jenny, the elder, is married to Alan Argyll, a very successful businessman.

Mary tipping over the rail, clinging on to Toby Argyll, and the two of them plunging down into the icy river.

But few women are as fortunate as I am, and Jenny Argyll is certainly not among them.

Alan Argyll is reasonable enough, but if he has faults, Jenny may naturally prefer not to be more aware of them than she is obliged to be.

The small cortege was led by the minister, whose unsmiling countenance was like the face of doom, followed by Jenny Argyll in unrelieved black and so heavily veiled her face was invisible.

Monk knew her only because it could be no one else with Alan Argyll, although she took no notice of him at all, nor he of her.

But Havilland had been an engineer himself, and he knew exactly what their huge machines were capable of, what safeguards were taken, and that Alan Argyll, of all people, would not want injuries or time lost.

First her father s error, his suicide, her own broken betrothal to Toby Argyll, then an estrangement from her sister, the shame of her false accusations, and nothing to look forward to in the future, not even financial security.

If so, then perhaps she had taken Toby with her over the edge intentionally, as Alan Argyll had implied in the shock of his loss.

Havilland and Mary both took their own lives, or Toby Argyll tried to kill Mary and fell in himself.