Malkin didn't have much to say on the way home.

By the time he got all this together in his head, Malkin was gone.

"Malkin had the stuff out of the house before they got in the door."

The only really active one in the house was Malkin.

With that there was nothing to do but wait until Malkin got back.

Malkin looked at him as if he was a touch slow.

It seemed Malkin was known, if not welcomed, in this place.

A message formed itself in fire at the level of Malkin's eyes.

The Malkin will do even better - 400 or more."

True to his word of the night before he fixed breakfast for himself and Malkin.

In answer Malkin pointed to a stretch of the street before them.

Malkin started going through them and puzzled out the messages as they came up.

Malkin was easily the tallest woman he'd ever seen in this world.

Malkin was waiting for him when he got home.

But today, it looks like Malkin's recovery is going a lot quicker than expected.

The mayor turned to look at Malkin and a smile spread slowly over his face.

The second floor, with his and Malkin's bedrooms, had more possibilities.

Malkin asked in a voice that showed more curiosity than compassion.

As they crossed the threshold Malkin was just coming up from the kitchen.

Malkin didn't bother to sweep them back into the bag.

As he tugged the front door closed Malkin came up from the kitchen.

Malkin's agreed to come back to the Capital with us."

Malkin was just behind her, also watching the ever-changing patterns.

Malkin just nodded and sat down at the table.

Unlike most of the non-magicians in her world, Malkin could read.

Anybody 'ud say you wanted to make a mawkin of me.'

The primary evidence supporting this location seems to be that a hollow in the hillside east of the farm is known as Mawkin Hole.

Perhaps you mean the mawkin that was put up to scare birds from the peas in the garden, for it has more in its head than Tom.

I'm as ready as a mawkin can be- there's nothing awanting to frighten the crows, now I've got my ear-droppers in.'

Robene and Makyne (also spelt Mawkin) are stock names for peasant characters, a shepherd and a country maiden.

MAWKIN Dialect: "scarecrow."

Mawkin: Causley reworked L'homme arme for a track under the same title, on their 2009 album The Awkward Recruit (Navigator).

Hamilton was the author of several novels, two of which - The Outlaws of the March and The Mawkin of the Flow - are set on the Scottish Borders in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

Back at their inn, they sat quietly reflecting how little Aberdeen had offered them in terms of conversational or intellectual stimulation - or, as Boswell reported Johnson's remark, 'that the Aberdonians had not started a single mawkin [the Scottish word for hare]for us to pursue'.

Recent projects include working with Scottish fiddle player John McCusker in his Under One Sky project uniting the English and Scottish traditions and also touring with Essex instrumental quartet, Mawkin as Mawkin:Causley.