It was while matters were in this state with Widow Grahame, and somewhere about two years after she had settled at Kilpatrick, that her eldest son said to her one evening, on returning home after the labours of the day were over:- "Mother, they say the King has come to Cardross Castle and I believe it's true; for I saw, frae the braes, a great cavalcade o' knights and gentlemen on horseback, doon on the Glasgow road, gaun towards Dumbarton as hard's they could BIR."
"Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX"
Alexander Leighton
With it must be named the 6th century church in the same city, now used as a mosque, under the name of Eski Djuma, and the considerably later churches at Bin BIR Kilissi that have only recently been explored and are of basilican plan with barrel-vaulted roofing.
"Architecture"
Nancy R E Meugens Bell
Nimrod has come up again in this our year of 1847. The French and English antiquarians and excavators have dug him up, and all his splendid posterity from the banks of the Euphrates at the BIR-el-Nimroud.
"Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846"
James Richardson