For them the gracious Duncan I have murder'd

Why do you call Mrs. Stone Aggie? Agnes is such a beautiful name, it is a shame to nick it in that way.Then, quickly regretting his impatience, he added,You would not have been jealous, would you, Jenny?

The witgats, Boscia albitrunca and Boscia oleoides, are sometimes called shepherd's trees because their neat evergreen crowns cast a small but deep shadow in which for centuries shepherds and their flocks have rested.

to mop (or scrub) a floor