Zetland

/ ˈzɛtlənd /

noun

1. the official name (until 1974) of Shetland

Example Sentences

He travelled—on foot principally—from Inverness to Thurso, and is going on to-morrow to Zetland.

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A native of Zetland, a few years ago, was received into the hospital of Edinburgh, labouring under true elephantiasis.

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Come, my good master and dame, this may be Scottish jesting, but it sounds strange in Zetland ears.

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Among the common people of Zetland, their existence still forms an article of universal belief.

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There is certainly something very extraordinary to a stranger in Zetland corn-mills.

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