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Pagina 6
... Laird . " " You certainly , " said Waverley , haughtily , " will find it both difficult and dangerous to detain me unless you can produce some proper authority . " There was a pause and a whisper among the crowd— " Secretary Murray ...
... Laird . " " You certainly , " said Waverley , haughtily , " will find it both difficult and dangerous to detain me unless you can produce some proper authority . " There was a pause and a whisper among the crowd— " Secretary Murray ...
Pagina 11
... Laird , as a justice of peace , and placed at his disposal . The rest of the assistants unanimously agreed to the measure recommended ; even Mrs. Mucklewrath , who had begun to recover from her hysterics , whim- pered forth , " She ...
... Laird , as a justice of peace , and placed at his disposal . The rest of the assistants unanimously agreed to the measure recommended ; even Mrs. Mucklewrath , who had begun to recover from her hysterics , whim- pered forth , " She ...
Pagina 26
... laird and clergyman of Cairnvreckan sat down in silence to their evening meal . While the servants were in attendance , neither chose to say any thing on the circumstances which occupied their minds , and neither felt it easy to speak ...
... laird and clergyman of Cairnvreckan sat down in silence to their evening meal . While the servants were in attendance , neither chose to say any thing on the circumstances which occupied their minds , and neither felt it easy to speak ...
Pagina 27
... . 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 love of letters , though kept in subordination to WAVERLEY 27.
... . 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 love of letters , though kept in subordination to WAVERLEY 27.
Pagina 53
... Laird of Cairnvreckan ? " " A Presbyterian clergyman , " answered Waverley . " Presbyterian ! " answered Gilfillan contemptuously ; " a wretched Erastian , or rather an obscured Prelatist , - a favourer of the black Indulgence ; ane of ...
... Laird of Cairnvreckan ? " " A Presbyterian clergyman , " answered Waverley . " Presbyterian ! " answered Gilfillan contemptuously ; " a wretched Erastian , or rather an obscured Prelatist , - a favourer of the black Indulgence ; ane of ...
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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...