At 'Ntshindeen's kraal I spent a few halcyon days.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
Ruined Roxburgh, between Tweed's and Teviot's flow, and the palatial Floors Castle represent the best of epochs old and new, and even more than in Scott's halcyon school days is Kelso the "Queen of the South Countrie."
"In the Border Country"
W. S. (William Shillinglaw) Crockett
Cherami, fashionably dressed and perfumed as in his halcyon days, presented himself before the count, who stepped forward to meet him.
"Monsieur Cherami"
Charles Paul de Kock