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Cold air in the nostrils 1 1 Tormentil and Bleached Bones - Thomas A Clark; (Beinn Fuar) p55
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sand-blasted glass , 2011, 105 x 148mm, edition of 4 2 The glass itself is English Muffle by type
Newly minted coins In discussing Sorley MacLean, John MacInnes writes 2
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sand-blasted glass , 2011, 105 x 148mm, edition of 2 ‘MacGill-Eain uses the Gaelic lexicon in such a way that
literary Gaelic will never be the same again. The context of
his poetry gives the common currency of Gaelic, as well as
the antique and unusual words, the quality of newly-minted
coins’.
1 The glass itself is English Muffle by type
2 Dùthchas Nan Gàidheal: Selected Essays of John MacInnes, p406
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