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ayrshire
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Ayrshire (1885–1910) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire . In a career that lasted from 1887 to 1889 he ran sixteen times and won eleven races. After winning five races as a two-year-old he became the leading British three-year-old colt of 1888 ...
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Ayrshire \Ayr"shire\, n. (Agric.) One of a superior breed of cattle from Ayrshire, Scotland. Ayrshires are notable for the quantity and quality of their milk. [1913 Webster] ||
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Population (2000): 202 Housing Units (2000): 98 Land area (2000): 0.208116 sq. miles (0.539018 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.208116 sq. miles (0.539018 sq. km) FIPS code: 04105 Located within: Iowa ...
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n. One of a breed of cattle from Ayrshire, Scotland, notable for the quantity and quality of their milk. n. A traditional county in Scotland.
Usage examples of ayrshire.
Kyle, and began to negotiate for a new edition of the Poems of the Ayrshire Ploughman.
Adamhill in Ayrshire, and merited the praise of rough and ready-witted, which the poem bestows.
Chalmers, a gentleman in Ayrshire, a particular friend of mine, asked me to write a poetic epistle to a young lady, his Dulcinea.
October, 1786, when he dined at my house in Ayrshire, together with our common friend, John Mackenzie, surgeon in Mauchline, to whom I am indebted for the pleasure of his acquaintance.
He was, he says, on his way to Ayrshire, one stormy day in January, and had made himself comfortable, in spite of the snow-drift, over a smoking bowl, at an inn at the Sanquhar, when in wheeled the whole funeral pageantry of Mrs.
John Whitefoord, a name of old standing in Ayrshire, inherited the love of his family for literature, and interested himself early in the fame and fortunes of Burns.
William Cobbett, who knew him, to have been a Thomas Kennedy, a native of Ayrshire, agent to a mercantile house in the west of Scotland.
I composed the other day, on a charming Ayrshire girl, Miss Leslie Baillie, as she passed through this place to England, will suit your taste better than the Collier Lassie, fall on and welcome.
Even in higher life, a couple of our Ayrshire noblemen, and the major part of our knights and squires, are all insolvent.
The Esculapian Club of Edinburgh have, since the death of Burns, added some iron-work, with an inscription in honour of the Ayrshire poet to the original headstone.
I shall, for certain, leave town in a week for Ayrshire, and from that to Dumfries, but there my hopes are slender.
I return to Ayrshire middle of next week: and it quickens my pace to think that there will be a letter from you waiting me there.
I return to Ayrshire, for there I keep it with other precious treasure.
I sent to Edinburgh, a few days after I had the happiness of meeting you in Ayrshire, but you were gone for the Continent.
Oswald, and poor I am forced to brave all the horrors of the tempestuous night, and jade my horse, my young favourite horse, whom I had just christened Pegasus, twelve miles farther on, through the wildest moors and hills of Ayrshire, to New Cumnock, the next inn.