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Pagina 7
... respecting Waverley , " I daur ye to touch . him , " spreading abroad her long and muscular fingers , garnished with claws which a vulture might have envied . " I'll set my ten commandments in the face o ' the first loon that lays a ...
... respecting Waverley , " I daur ye to touch . him , " spreading abroad her long and muscular fingers , garnished with claws which a vulture might have envied . " I'll set my ten commandments in the face o ' the first loon that lays a ...
Pagina 8
... respect my horse and mysell will lose to - morrow's day's - wark , besides the afternoon preaching . " Edward , out of patience , hemmed in and hustled by the rabble on every side , and every moment expecting personal violence ...
... respect my horse and mysell will lose to - morrow's day's - wark , besides the afternoon preaching . " Edward , out of patience , hemmed in and hustled by the rabble on every side , and every moment expecting personal violence ...
Pagina 27
... respect of his parishioners repaid his affectionate zeal in their behalf , by endeavouring to disguise from him what they knew would give him the most acute pain , namely , their own occasional transgressions of the duties which it was ...
... respect of his parishioners repaid his affectionate zeal in their behalf , by endeavouring to disguise from him what they knew would give him the most acute pain , namely , their own occasional transgressions of the duties which it was ...
Pagina 35
... respects from those of England , and had been taught to believe , however erroneously , that the liberty and rights of the subject were less carefully protected . A sentiment of bitterness rose in his mind against the Government , which ...
... respects from those of England , and had been taught to believe , however erroneously , that the liberty and rights of the subject were less carefully protected . A sentiment of bitterness rose in his mind against the Government , which ...
Pagina 46
... his successor in office a member of that enlightened body , the British . Convention : Be his memory , therefore , treated with due respect . RELIGION COVENANTS AND KINGDOMES KING , CHAPTER THE THIRTY - 46 WAVERLEY NOVELS.
... his successor in office a member of that enlightened body , the British . Convention : Be his memory , therefore , treated with due respect . RELIGION COVENANTS AND KINGDOMES KING , CHAPTER THE THIRTY - 46 WAVERLEY NOVELS.
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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...