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Pagina 13
... duty terminated here ; but it is necessary that we should have some further inquiry into the cause of your journey through the country at this unfortunate and distracted time . " Mr. Ebenezer Cruickshanks now stood forth , and ...
... duty terminated here ; but it is necessary that we should have some further inquiry into the cause of your journey through the country at this unfortunate and distracted time . " Mr. Ebenezer Cruickshanks now stood forth , and ...
Pagina 15
... duty has fallen to my lot . " " Duty , Major Melville , renders apologies super- fluous . " " True , sir ; permit me , therefore , to ask you how your time has been disposed of since you obtained leave of absence from your regiment ...
... duty has fallen to my lot . " " Duty , Major Melville , renders apologies super- fluous . " " True , sir ; permit me , therefore , to ask you how your time has been disposed of since you obtained leave of absence from your regiment ...
Pagina 27
... duties which it was the business of his life to recommend . Thus it was a common saying in the neighbourhood ( though both were popular characters ) , that the laird knew only the ill in the parish , and the minister only the good . A ...
... duties which it was the business of his life to recommend . Thus it was a common saying in the neighbourhood ( though both were popular characters ) , that the laird knew only the ill in the parish , and the minister only the good . A ...
Pagina 28
... duties , also distinguished the pastor of Cairnvreckan , and had tinged his mind in earlier days with a slight feeling of romance , which no after incidents of real life had entirely dissipated . The early loss of an amiable young woman ...
... duties , also distinguished the pastor of Cairnvreckan , and had tinged his mind in earlier days with a slight feeling of romance , which no after incidents of real life had entirely dissipated . The early loss of an amiable young woman ...
Pagina 37
... duties as a soldier and public functionary , by which I am not fettered ; nor can I always coincide in opinions which he forms , per- haps with too little allowance for the imperfections of human nature . " He paused , and then ...
... duties as a soldier and public functionary , by which I am not fettered ; nor can I always coincide in opinions which he forms , per- haps with too little allowance for the imperfections of human nature . " He paused , and then ...
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answered appeared arms army attended auld Bailie Balmawhapple Baron of Bradwardine battle battle of Preston broadsword Cairnvreckan caliga called Carlisle Carlisle Castle Castle cavalry CHAPTER Charles Edward Chevalier Chief Chieftain circumstances clan Colonel Talbot command dear Dickes Gray Donald Bean Doune Castle dragoons Edinburgh English Evan Dhu eyes favour feelings Fergus Mac-Ivor Fergus's Flockhart Flora Mac-Ivor followed gentleman Gilfillan Glennaquoich hand head heard hero Highlanders honour hope horse house of Stuart Jacobites Janet Lady Emily laird look Lord George Murray Maccombich Macwheeble Major Melville military mind Miss Bradwardine Morton never night numbers officer party Penrith person poor portmanteau Prince Prince's prisoner puir regiment replied Rose Bradwardine Royal Highness Scotland Scottish seemed Sir Everard soldiers spirit Spontoon Stirling Castle sword thought tion took troop Tully-Veolan Ullswater Vich Ian Vohr Waverley-Honour Waverley's whilk wish young
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Pagina 423 - It has been my object to describe these persons, not by a caricatured and exaggerated use of the national dialect, but by their habits, manners, and feelings ; so as in some distant degree to emulate the admirable Irish portraits drawn by Miss Edgeworth, so different from the " Teagues" and " dear joys" who so long, with the most perfect family resemblance to each other, occupied the drama and the novel.
Pagina 256 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
Pagina 430 - He saw a party of the foot, who were then bravely fighting near him, and whom he was ordered to support, had no officer to head them ; upon which he said eagerly, in the hearing of the person from whom I had this account, ' These brave follows will be cut to pieces for want of a commander...
Pagina 300 - Bradwardine, who was destitute of the devoted enthusiasm of loyalty, which, to her friend, hallowed and exalted misfortune. These reveries he was permitted to enjoy, undisturbed by queries or interruption ; — and it was in many a winter walk by the shores of...