Parade pattern

Usage examples of tartan.

For the first time he had been persuaded to wear the full panoply of a Highland chief, and though he had exhibited himself to the ladies with much pride, and even in the course of dinner had promised Eva Gallosh that he would never again don anything less romantic, he now began to think that a travelling-rug of the Tulliwuddle tartan would prove a useful addition to the outfit on the occasion of a midnight vigil.

For there, down the long white road, was the head of the approaching column -- kilts and sporans swinging to the time, white gaiters slogging up and down, tartan ribbons aflutter on the pipes, and the bass-drummer with his leopard-skin apron whirling his sticks cross-armed, overhead, and behind him in the wild inimitable Highland manner!

Only Captain MacDonald, who sat beside him, seemed unchilled, but he was wrapped in a great tartan blanket and had the extra warmth of his pipe, rarely unlit in the hours that they had waited.

Mrs Ross has this wee poodle wi a tartan collar that ey nips at ma heels.

The tartan touched at the harbour of Pola, called Veruda, and we landed.

There were several vessels at anchor, and amongst them a Venetian ship and a Turkish tartan.

Delighted at hearing that oracles were not yet defunct, and satisfied that they will endure as long as there are in this world simpleminded men and deceitful, cunning priests, I follow the good man, who took me to his tartan and treated me to an excellent breakfast.

One, a warm, blanketlike cloak of ragged and faded tartan cloth, he took to wrap himself in.

Misshapen faces, stupid-looking tartan neckerchiefs, infuriatingly whining voices, strange and vaguely nauseating odors.

Much of the merchandise in the shops is generic dotcom trash, vying for the title of Japanese-Scottish souvenir-from-hell: Puroland tartans, animatronic Nessies hissing bad-temperedly at knee level, second-hand schleptops.

We went on board the first which we visited with interest, but not seeing anyone of my acquaintance, we rowed towards the Turkish tartan, where the most romantic surprise awaited me.

Painfully hampered, cruelly encumbered, Richard staggered on, the brown base under his arm as heavy as a soaked log, the T-shaped adjunct in his free hand, the tartan flex-tube round his neck like a fat scarf, and then the plug, freed from its broken catchlet, incensingly adangle between his legs.

He wore a pair of brogues, tartan hose which came up only near to his knees, and left them bare, a purple camblet kilt, a black waistcoat, a short green cloth coat bound with gold cord, a yellowish bushy wig, a large blue bonnet with a gold thread button.

I visited the castle as a young man, I saw clairvoyantly several of the old chiefs standing there, grim and dark faced men from the spirit world, in their red tartans and plaids, with shields and battle axes, and staring straight at me.

He had his tartan plaid thrown about him, a large blue bonnet with a knot of black ribband like a cockade, a brown short coat of a kind of duffil, a tartan waistoat with gold buttons and gold button-holes, a bluish philibeg, and tartan hose.