The Waverley Novels, Volume 2Lippincott, Grambo, 1855 |
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... hand , and re- mained , seemingly , unconscious as a statue , of the noise and tumult which passed around her . That tumult was now transferred from the inside to the outside of the Tolbooth . The mob had brought their destined victim ...
... hand , and re- mained , seemingly , unconscious as a statue , of the noise and tumult which passed around her . That tumult was now transferred from the inside to the outside of the Tolbooth . The mob had brought their destined victim ...
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... hand , to encourage them to speak out . discovered ; made use of no clerk , but wrote all the declara- fully satisfied that life had abandoned their victim , After all , for some time , he could get nothing but ends of sto- they ...
... hand , to encourage them to speak out . discovered ; made use of no clerk , but wrote all the declara- fully satisfied that life had abandoned their victim , After all , for some time , he could get nothing but ends of sto- they ...
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... hand kindly upon the stranger's shoulder , " what an awful alternative you voluntarily choose for yourself , to kill or be killed . Think what it is to rush uncalled into the presence of an offended Deity , your heart ferment- ing with ...
... hand kindly upon the stranger's shoulder , " what an awful alternative you voluntarily choose for yourself , to kill or be killed . Think what it is to rush uncalled into the presence of an offended Deity , your heart ferment- ing with ...
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... hand , so as partly to screen his face , and putting back his right His limbs exhausted with fatigue , his mind harassed as far as he could , held it towards Butler in that po- with anxiety , and with painful doubts and recollec ...
... hand , so as partly to screen his face , and putting back his right His limbs exhausted with fatigue , his mind harassed as far as he could , held it towards Butler in that po- with anxiety , and with painful doubts and recollec ...
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... hand clenched , and his voice raised , while the tear in his eye , and the Occasional quiver of his accents , showed that his utmost efforts were inadequate to shaking off the consciousness of his misery . Butler , apprehensive of the ...
... hand clenched , and his voice raised , while the tear in his eye , and the Occasional quiver of his accents , showed that his utmost efforts were inadequate to shaking off the consciousness of his misery . Butler , apprehensive of the ...
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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.