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Pagina 15
... leave of absence from your regiment , several weeks ago , until the present moment ? " " My reply , " said Waverley , " to so general a ques- tion must be guided by the nature of the charge which renders it necessary . I request to know ...
... leave of absence from your regiment , several weeks ago , until the present moment ? " " My reply , " said Waverley , " to so general a ques- tion must be guided by the nature of the charge which renders it necessary . I request to know ...
Pagina 18
... leaving the regiment , held any correspondence , direct or indirect , with this Sergeant Houghton ? " " I - I hold correspondence with a man of his rank and situation ! -How , or for what purpose ? " " That you are to explain ; -but did ...
... leaving the regiment , held any correspondence , direct or indirect , with this Sergeant Houghton ? " " I - I hold correspondence with a man of his rank and situation ! -How , or for what purpose ? " " That you are to explain ; -but did ...
Pagina 22
... leave of absence other- wise than in constant residence at Bradwardine , as to which , I own , I thought he was not called on to inter- fere ; and , finally , I received , on the same day on which I observed myself superseded in the ...
... leave of absence other- wise than in constant residence at Bradwardine , as to which , I own , I thought he was not called on to inter- fere ; and , finally , I received , on the same day on which I observed myself superseded in the ...
Pagina 30
... leave of absence , goes to Tully - Veolanthe principles of the Baron of Brad- wardine are pretty well known , not to mention that this lad's uncle brought him off in the year fifteen ; he engages there in a brawl , in which he is said ...
... leave of absence , goes to Tully - Veolanthe principles of the Baron of Brad- wardine are pretty well known , not to mention that this lad's uncle brought him off in the year fifteen ; he engages there in a brawl , in which he is said ...
Pagina 33
... leaving the road to the Low Country open and undefended to the Highland army . " " Good God ! " said the clergyman . " Is the man a coward , a traitor , or an idiot ? " " None of the three , I believe , " answered Melville . " Sir John ...
... leaving the road to the Low Country open and undefended to the Highland army . " " Good God ! " said the clergyman . " Is the man a coward , a traitor , or an idiot ? " " None of the three , I believe , " answered Melville . " Sir John ...
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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...