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Pagina vii
Walter Scott. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Subject . Pinkie House ( Edinburghshire ) , ( Head - quarters of the Prince the night after the Battle ) Signet Ring of the Prince . Cluny Castle Preston Tower ( Haddington- vii Drawn by Engraved by ...
Walter Scott. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Subject . Pinkie House ( Edinburghshire ) , ( Head - quarters of the Prince the night after the Battle ) Signet Ring of the Prince . Cluny Castle Preston Tower ( Haddington- vii Drawn by Engraved by ...
Pagina 4
... head of their armed tribes , had either already taken place , or was instantly apprehended . Ere Waverley could ask particulars , a strong , large- boned , hard - featured woman , about forty , dressed as if her clothes had been flung ...
... head of their armed tribes , had either already taken place , or was instantly apprehended . Ere Waverley could ask particulars , a strong , large- boned , hard - featured woman , about forty , dressed as if her clothes had been flung ...
Pagina 5
... heads for fules that will never snap them at a Highlandman , instead of earning bread for your family , and shoeing this winsome young gentle- man's horse that's just come frae the north ! I'se warrant him nane of your whingeing King ...
... heads for fules that will never snap them at a Highlandman , instead of earning bread for your family , and shoeing this winsome young gentle- man's horse that's just come frae the north ! I'se warrant him nane of your whingeing King ...
Pagina 7
... head , gudeman ! Then I wad ware my widowhood Upon a ranting Highlandman . " This canticle , which excited a suppressed titter among the younger part of the audience , totally over- came the patience of the taunted man of the anvil ...
... head , gudeman ! Then I wad ware my widowhood Upon a ranting Highlandman . " This canticle , which excited a suppressed titter among the younger part of the audience , totally over- came the patience of the taunted man of the anvil ...
Pagina 11
... head , and stunned him for a moment or two , which trance terror and confusion of spirit had prolonged somewhat longer . He now arose to demand vengeance on the person of Waverley , and with difficulty acquiesced in the proposal of Mr ...
... head , and stunned him for a moment or two , which trance terror and confusion of spirit had prolonged somewhat longer . He now arose to demand vengeance on the person of Waverley , and with difficulty acquiesced in the proposal of Mr ...
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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...