"Pinkie" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... picturesque gargoyles still break the line of the cornice on the top. Although the edifice has been so sadly damaged, it does not appear to have suffered at the Reformation. The town was under siege in 1548, when it was held by the English after the battle of Pinkie, and was attacked and taken by the Scots and their French allies. It is not unlikely that the church ...
— Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys • Dugald Butler and Herbert Story
... foundation, at least—of a fortune. At last I found a benefactor, in the Guards' camp, in Colonel D——, of the Coldstreams, who kindly promised me a great pet, well known in the camp, and perhaps by some who may read these pages, by the name of Pinkie. Pinkie was then helping a brother officer to clear his hut, but on the following day a Guardsman brought the noble fellow down. He lived in clover for a few days, but he had an English cat-like attachment for his old ...
— Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands • Mary Seacole
... got away in the lead but he made the mistake of walking fast instead of running, with the result that when the other horses were back in the stable Pinkie was still giving a heel and toe ...
— Back to the Woods • Hugh McHugh
... demands, and especially to secure the person of the infant queen. But though it inflicted considerable havoc on Scotland, particularly on several of the religious houses, and though it overthrew the forces of the regent in the battle of Pinkie (1547), it was obliged to re-cross the borders without having secured the submission of the nation. In the following year (1548) a new French force arrived in England to assist the Scotch in their ...
— History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance • Rev. James MacCaffrey |
