Dorothy Dunnett Quotes

And the English army, wheeling, started south at a gallop over the hill pass into Ettrick, followed by twenty men and eight hundred sheep in steel helmets.

Dorothy Dunnett

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• And the English army, wheeling, started south at a gallop over the hill pass into Ettrick, followed by twenty men and eight hundred sheep in steel helmets.

  

  Dorothy Dunnett
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  • English
  • Army