The Waverley Novels, Volume 2Lippincott, Grambo, 1855 |
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... horse will be ready , for little thought to hae sitten doun wi ' the like my he wants it agane the Kelso races . " auld Davie Howden , or you either , Mr. Saddletree . ' While Saddletree , who was not bright at a reply , was cudgelling ...
... horse will be ready , for little thought to hae sitten doun wi ' the like my he wants it agane the Kelso races . " auld Davie Howden , or you either , Mr. Saddletree . ' While Saddletree , who was not bright at a reply , was cudgelling ...
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... horse- " I would never have thought for a moment of jockey , intimate with all the tricks of his trade ; yet staying in that auld gousty toom house , " answered had you met him on a moor , you would not have ap- Ratcliffe , " but that ...
... horse- " I would never have thought for a moment of jockey , intimate with all the tricks of his trade ; yet staying in that auld gousty toom house , " answered had you met him on a moor , you would not have ap- Ratcliffe , " but that ...
Pagina 34
... horse behind , and instinctively drew to one side of the road , as if to al- low as much room for the rider to pass as might be possible . When the animal came up , she found that it was bearing two women , the one placed on a side ...
... horse behind , and instinctively drew to one side of the road , as if to al- low as much room for the rider to pass as might be possible . When the animal came up , she found that it was bearing two women , the one placed on a side ...
Pagina 50
... horse with the purpose of making the utmost haste to London , and there compounding with Sir Robert Walpole for your sis- ter's safety , by surrendering to him , in the person of the heir of the family of Willingham , the notorious ...
... horse with the purpose of making the utmost haste to London , and there compounding with Sir Robert Walpole for your sis- ter's safety , by surrendering to him , in the person of the heir of the family of Willingham , the notorious ...
Pagina 52
... horse spirator in the Porteous mob . He will hear you on should be ready to conduct her to Stamford . He then this topic , should he be deaf to every other . Make took a serious and dignified , yet kind leave of her , your own terms ...
... horse spirator in the Porteous mob . He will hear you on should be ready to conduct her to Stamford . He then this topic , should he be deaf to every other . Make took a serious and dignified , yet kind leave of her , your own terms ...
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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.