Word: armstrang
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There are frequent gleams of rough heroism in the murk of violence. Though Eraser's outlaws are notably grubbier, they are still recognizably the same men immortalized in border ballads like Johnnie Armstrang, Kinmont Willie and The Douglas Tragedy. If the clangor of their combat has been long silenced, it nevertheless has some unexpected contemporary resonances. Living at the heart of Liddesdale, the most intractable part of the whole border, and numbered among the toughest of all the reivers was a family named Nixon. · Charles Elliott
...Armstrang played at Andover before entering Yale. His old position in the line naturally made him a trifle slow for a position back of the line. His slowness is his chief fault...
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