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Grassmarket

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At one time the place of execution in Edinburgh.

“I like nane your sermons that end in a psalm at the Grassmarket.”—Sir Walter Scott: Old Mortality, chap. xxxv.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Granite City (The)
Granite Redoubt (The)
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Grantorto
Grapes
Grass
Grass Widow
Grasshopper
Grasshopper (The)
Grassmarket
Grassum or Gersome
Gratiano
Grave
Grave
Grave-diggers (Hamlet)
Grave Maurice
Grave Searchers
Grave as a Judge
Grave as an Owl
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