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Hebrides: tags: [geography]

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Definition:

The archipelago off the western coast of Scotland. They are differentiated by their proximity to mainland Scotland as "inner" and "outer".

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MacAdder: Aye, and what's in it for me?

Blackadder: Enough cash to buy the Outer Hebrides. What do you think?

MacAdder: Fourteen shillings and six-pence? Well, it's tempting - but I've got an even better plan: Why don't I pretend to be the Duke of Wellington and kill the Prince of Wales in a duel? Then I could kill the King and be crowned with the ancient stone bonnet of MacAdder.

BBC. Blackadder, season 3: Duel and Duality

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“Where the Northern Ocean, in vast whirls,

Boils round the naked, melancholy isles

Of farthest Thule; and the Atlantic surge

Pours in among the stormy Hebrides.”

Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)

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I am now little short of the Ultima Thule, if this appellation properly belongs to the Orkneys or Hebrides.

Tobias Smollett. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)

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There, like the waves about the Hebrides, the low underwood is agitated continually.