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Pagina 114
... Ravenswood , occupying , and in some measure commanding , a pass betwixt Berwickshire or the Merse , as the south - eastern pro- vince of Scotland is termed , and the Lothians , was of importance both in times of foreign war and ...
... Ravenswood , occupying , and in some measure commanding , a pass betwixt Berwickshire or the Merse , as the south - eastern pro- vince of Scotland is termed , and the Lothians , was of importance both in times of foreign war and ...
Pagina 115
... Ravenswood had spent the last and troubled years of his life , opened , that his mortal remains might pass forward to an abode yet more dreary and lonely . The pomp of attendance , to which the deceased had , in his latter years , been ...
... Ravenswood had spent the last and troubled years of his life , opened , that his mortal remains might pass forward to an abode yet more dreary and lonely . The pomp of attendance , to which the deceased had , in his latter years , been ...
Pagina 116
... Ravenswood , hastened to state before the and our grief - the grief due to our departed friend is Keeper the resistance which he had met with in the chased from our cheeks by the glow of just indigna- execution of his office on toi qurb ...
... Ravenswood , hastened to state before the and our grief - the grief due to our departed friend is Keeper the resistance which he had met with in the chased from our cheeks by the glow of just indigna- execution of his office on toi qurb ...
Pagina 117
... Ravenswood . The names of most of the parties concerned , as well as the fact itself , would , he was well aware , sound odiously in the ears of his colleagues in administration , and most likely instigate them to make an example of ...
... Ravenswood . The names of most of the parties concerned , as well as the fact itself , would , he was well aware , sound odiously in the ears of his colleagues in administration , and most likely instigate them to make an example of ...
Pagina 118
... Ravenswood - Master of Ra- nor is it so that it can be fortified and augmented . venswood that is now - when he goes up to the wood The Lord Keeper's dignity is yet new ; it must be there hasna been a better hunter since Tristrem's ...
... Ravenswood - Master of Ra- nor is it so that it can be fortified and augmented . venswood that is now - when he goes up to the wood The Lord Keeper's dignity is yet new ; it must be there hasna been a better hunter since Tristrem's ...
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Allan ancient answered auld bairn Balderstone better betwixt Bucklaw Butler Caleb called canna Captain Dalgetty castle Covenanters Craigengelt Crossmyloof daughter David Deans dinna door Drumthwacket Duke of Argyle Dumbiedikes Edinburgh Effie eyes father favour fear feelings frae gang gentleman George Staunton gude hand Hayston head heard heart Highland honour hope horse Inverary Jeanie Deans Jeanie's Jedediah Cleishbotham Lady Ashton Laird Libberton look Lord Keeper Lord Menteith Lucy M'Aulay Madge mair Marquis Master of Ravenswood maun means ment Middleburgh mind Montrose muckle never night occasion ower person poor Porteous Ranald Ratcliffe replied Reuben Roseneath Saddletree Scotland Scottish seemed Sharpit Sharpitlaw Sir Duncan Sir William Ashton sister soldier speak Staunton suld sword tell thing thou thought tion tone turn voice weel whilk Wildfire Wolf's Crag woman word young
Populaire passages
Pagina 61 - But when the hour of trouble comes to the mind or to the body — and seldom may it visit your Leddyship — and when the hour of death comes, that comes to high and low — lang and late may it be yours — O, my Leddy, then it isna what we hae dune for oursells, but what we hae dune for others, that we think on maist pleasantly.
Pagina 276 - Swine, fool, swine," said the herd, "every fool knows that." "And swine is good Saxon," said the Jester; "but how call you the sow when she is flayed, and drawn, and quartered, and hung up by the heels, like a traitor?" "Pork," answered the swine-herd. "I am very glad every fool knows that too...
Pagina 275 - ... delights to lose itself, while imagination considers them as the paths to yet wilder scenes of silvan solitude. Here the red rays of the sun shot a broken and discoloured light, that partially hung upon the shattered boughs and mossy trunks of the trees, and there they illuminated in brilliant patches the portions of turf to which they made their way. A considerable open space, in the midst of this glade, seemed formerly to have been dedicated to the rites of Druidical...
Pagina 274 - Roman soldiery, flung their gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most delicious green sward ; in some places they were intermingled with beeches, hollies, and copsewood of various descriptions, so closely as totally to intercept the level beams of the sinking sun ; in others they receded from each other, forming those long sweeping vistas, in the intricacy of which the eye delights to lose itself, while imagination considers them as the paths to yet wilder scenes of sylvan solitude.