Crossword-Solution: GRAMPIAN 8 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

How lucky, too, it was that he had never actually committed himself with Anne Willoughby! for while money was an excellent thing to have, how infinitely less desirable it was to live perked up in golden sorrow than to feed flocks upon the Grampian Hills, where Freedom from the mountain height cried, "I go on forever, a prince can make a belted knight, and let who will be clever.

Perth and Dundee gave their thousands; and, from the East Nook of Fife to the foot of the Grampian hills, there was nothing but running and riding that morning to Auchtermuchty.

And then two or three times a year, if you can afford it, you climb an Alp or a Grampian every day for a week or a month; and, so gracious and so adaptable is human nature, that, what others get daily, you get weekly, or monthly, or quarterly, or yearly.

From his earliest childhood, when he used to recite, during the Christmas holidays, "_Pity the sorrows of a poor old man_," and astonish his father's porter (who had a turn that way himself) with his knowing, _all by heart_, "My name is Norval, on the Grampian hills,"--to his more matured efforts of, "Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors," or, "My liege, I did deny no prisoners,"--the idea of being an actor had constantly fascinated his imagination.

The Chancellor merely asked for ten million pounds a month to begin on; he explained that his task was heavy; he has to police, not only the entire coast, but also the interior; for the Grampian Hills of Scotland alone he asked a million.