The Waverley Novels, Volume 2Lippincott, Grambo, 1855 |
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... hour the usual time of his arrival at the Bull and Mouth . But in both countries these ancient , slow , and sure modes of conveyance , are now alike unknown : mail- coach races against mail - coach , and high - flyer against high ...
... hour the usual time of his arrival at the Bull and Mouth . But in both countries these ancient , slow , and sure modes of conveyance , are now alike unknown : mail- coach races against mail - coach , and high - flyer against high ...
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... hour when Mr. of the vaults under the Parliament - house , or courts Dunover chose to retire to rest , and I also retreated of justice , This mode of execution is now exchanged to take down memorandums of what I had learned , for one ...
... hour when Mr. of the vaults under the Parliament - house , or courts Dunover chose to retire to rest , and I also retreated of justice , This mode of execution is now exchanged to take down memorandums of what I had learned , for one ...
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... hour's come , but not the man . " - Kelpie . On the day when the unhappy Porteous was ex execution , extensive as it is , was crowded almost to pected to suffer the sentence of the law , the place of suffocation . There was not a window ...
... hour's come , but not the man . " - Kelpie . On the day when the unhappy Porteous was ex execution , extensive as it is , was crowded almost to pected to suffer the sentence of the law , the place of suffocation . There was not a window ...
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... hour more in a second fruit- less attempt to find his legal friend and adviser , he thought it time to leave the city and return to his place of residence , in a small village about two miles and a half to the southward of Edinburgh ...
... hour more in a second fruit- less attempt to find his legal friend and adviser , he thought it time to leave the city and return to his place of residence , in a small village about two miles and a half to the southward of Edinburgh ...
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... hours of darkness that yet remained , whom , from the sti- fled tones of their discourse , the unwonted hour when they travelled , and the hasty pace at which they walked , he conjectured to have been engaged in the late fatal ...
... hours of darkness that yet remained , whom , from the sti- fled tones of their discourse , the unwonted hour when they travelled , and the hasty pace at which they walked , he conjectured to have been engaged in the late fatal ...
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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.