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Pagina 3
... receiving and communi- cating important news ; and a single glance at the aspect of the people who traversed the street in haste , or stood assembled in groups , with eyes elevated , and hands uplifted , announced that some ...
... receiving and communi- cating important news ; and a single glance at the aspect of the people who traversed the street in haste , or stood assembled in groups , with eyes elevated , and hands uplifted , announced that some ...
Pagina 13
... received Mr. Morton with great kindness , and our hero with civility , which the equivocal circumstances wherein Edward was placed rendered constrained and distant . The nature of the smith's hurt was inquired into , and as the actual ...
... received Mr. Morton with great kindness , and our hero with civility , which the equivocal circumstances wherein Edward was placed rendered constrained and distant . The nature of the smith's hurt was inquired into , and as the actual ...
Pagina 17
... received , and presented them with the envelope . The Major perused them in silence , and directed his clerk to make a copy of them . He then wrapped the copy in the envelope , and placing it on the table before him , returned the ...
... received , and presented them with the envelope . The Major perused them in silence , and directed his clerk to make a copy of them . He then wrapped the copy in the envelope , and placing it on the table before him , returned the ...
Pagina 22
... received from him , containing a civil intimation of his wish that I would employ my 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 ...
... received from him , containing a civil intimation of his wish that I would employ my 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 ...
Pagina 24
... received me , whatever may be their public miscon- duct , as a guest and friend , -I declare to you that I consider your questions as an insult infinitely more offensive than your calumnious suspicions ; and that , since my hard fortune ...
... received me , whatever may be their public miscon- duct , as a guest and friend , -I declare to you that I consider your questions as an insult infinitely more offensive than your calumnious suspicions ; and that , since my hard fortune ...
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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.
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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...