The Waverley Novels, Volume 2Lippincott, Grambo, 1855 |
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... give me all your business , you know ; and if you have none , the learned gentleman here knows nothing can come of nothing . " " You seem to have brought something to nothing though , in the case of that honest man . He looks as if he ...
... give me all your business , you know ; and if you have none , the learned gentleman here knows nothing can come of nothing . " " You seem to have brought something to nothing though , in the case of that honest man . He looks as if he ...
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... give way to . Was not and all but the sound of the words , " ye said a gliff this girl , " he said , " the daughter of David Deans , syne it was quivis , and now I heard ve sav cuivis that had the parks at St. Leonard's taken ? and has ...
... give way to . Was not and all but the sound of the words , " ye said a gliff this girl , " he said , " the daughter of David Deans , syne it was quivis , and now I heard ve sav cuivis that had the parks at St. Leonard's taken ? and has ...
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... give better folk for preparing their account ? " answered several voices . " Let us mete to him with the same measure he measured to them . " But the opinion of the spokesman better suited the temper of those he addressed , a temper ...
... give better folk for preparing their account ? " answered several voices . " Let us mete to him with the same measure he measured to them . " But the opinion of the spokesman better suited the temper of those he addressed , a temper ...
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... give the of irritation , that it only wanted a single spark to create an ex- plosion ; and this was afforded by the exertions of the small and reader to understand who Butler was , and how his fate determined band of associates . The ...
... give the of irritation , that it only wanted a single spark to create an ex- plosion ; and this was afforded by the exertions of the small and reader to understand who Butler was , and how his fate determined band of associates . The ...
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... give the meeting at a place and hour so uncommon ? " Folk maun do muckle they have little will to do , in this world , " replied Jeanie . " I am no misdoubting that you wuss us weel - your wife's our far - awa cousin . " " Encouraged by ...
... give the meeting at a place and hour so uncommon ? " Folk maun do muckle they have little will to do , in this world , " replied Jeanie . " I am no misdoubting that you wuss us weel - your wife's our far - awa cousin . " " Encouraged by ...
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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
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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.