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Pagina 4
... 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 on with a pitchfork , her cheeks flushed with a ...
... 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 on with a pitchfork , her cheeks flushed with a ...
Pagina 42
... taken arms for Government . This person , whom they call Gifted Gilfillan , has been long a leader among them , and now heads a small party , which will pass here to - day , or to - morrow , on their march towards Stirling , under whose ...
... taken arms for Government . This person , whom they call Gifted Gilfillan , has been long a leader among them , and now heads a small party , which will pass here to - day , or to - morrow , on their march towards Stirling , under whose ...
Pagina 83
... taken the freedom to supply him with such changes of linen as he might find necessary , till he was again possessed of his own . With this com- pliment he disappeared . A servant acquainted Waverley an instant afterwards , that his ...
... taken the freedom to supply him with such changes of linen as he might find necessary , till he was again possessed of his own . With this com- pliment he disappeared . A servant acquainted Waverley an instant afterwards , that his ...
Pagina 100
... taken shipping for Dunbar , and I have just received certain information that he landed there yesterday . His purpose must unquestionably be , to march towards us to recover possession of the capital . Now there are two opinions in my ...
... taken shipping for Dunbar , and I have just received certain information that he landed there yesterday . His purpose must unquestionably be , to march towards us to recover possession of the capital . Now there are two opinions in my ...
Pagina 106
... taken up in a small paved court , retiring from the street called the Canongate , at the house of a buxom widow of forty , who seemed to smile very graciously upon the handsome young Chief , she being a person with whom good looks and ...
... taken up in a small paved court , retiring from the street called the Canongate , at the house of a buxom widow of forty , who seemed to smile very graciously upon the handsome young Chief , she being a person with whom good looks and ...
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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...