The Waverley Novels, Volume 2Lippincott, Grambo, 1855 |
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... leave aff trade , and set up for an honest man . " Stay there , and be hanged , then , for a donnard auld deevil ! " said the other , and ran down the pri son - stair . determined on their fatal purpose , had adopted a means of forcing ...
... leave aff trade , and set up for an honest man . " Stay there , and be hanged , then , for a donnard auld deevil ! " said the other , and ran down the pri son - stair . determined on their fatal purpose , had adopted a means of forcing ...
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... Leave me , sirs - leave me - I maun warstle wi ' this trial in privacy and on my knees . " Jeanie , now in some degree restored to the power of thought , joined in the same request . The next day found the father and daughter still in ...
... Leave me , sirs - leave me - I maun warstle wi ' this trial in privacy and on my knees . " Jeanie , now in some degree restored to the power of thought , joined in the same request . The next day found the father and daughter still in ...
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... leave . " " That is to say , you could find me another name if I did not like that one ? " " Twenty to pick and choose upon , always with your honour's leave , " resumed the respondent . " But James Ratcliffe is your present name ...
... leave . " " That is to say , you could find me another name if I did not like that one ? " " Twenty to pick and choose upon , always with your honour's leave , " resumed the respondent . " But James Ratcliffe is your present name ...
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... leave it on so wild an expedition , and at so late an hour , unprotected , and without the knowledge of her natural guardian . When she found herself abroad and in the open As they sate down to the " exercise , " as it is called ...
... leave it on so wild an expedition , and at so late an hour , unprotected , and without the knowledge of her natural guardian . When she found herself abroad and in the open As they sate down to the " exercise , " as it is called ...
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... leave o ' your father at the fit o ' the gallows . " " She has you there , George , " said the assistants , and there was a general laugh ; for the wit was fitted for the meridian of the place where it was uttered . This general ...
... leave o ' your father at the fit o ' the gallows . " " She has you there , George , " said the assistants , and there was a general laugh ; for the wit was fitted for the meridian of the place where it was uttered . This general ...
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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.