Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—H

Heart of Midlothian

The old jail, the Tolbooth of Edinburgh, taken down in 1817. Sir Walter Scott has a novel so called.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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