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... less profitable and less dignified ; she likewise taught a few children to read , and in summer she whiles reared a few chickens . " I said I could venture to guess from her face she had never been married . She laughed heartily at this ...
... less profitable and less dignified ; she likewise taught a few children to read , and in summer she whiles reared a few chickens . " I said I could venture to guess from her face she had never been married . She laughed heartily at this ...
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... less royal borough of Bitem , which , as all the world between indignation at the undeserved doom which knows , lies at the very termination of Sir Peter's they were to undergo , consciousness that they had avenue , and has been held in ...
... less royal borough of Bitem , which , as all the world between indignation at the undeserved doom which knows , lies at the very termination of Sir Peter's they were to undergo , consciousness that they had avenue , and has been held in ...
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... less that of scorn , than they were afterwards accounted . deicombe audi a18ual 1900 os borto To Captain John Porteous , the honour of his com- mand and of his corps seems to have was exceedingly e been a matter of high interest and ...
... less that of scorn , than they were afterwards accounted . deicombe audi a18ual 1900 os borto To Captain John Porteous , the honour of his com- mand and of his corps seems to have was exceedingly e been a matter of high interest and ...
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... less capable of attending to the domestic duties of his grandmo- ther's farm . While studying the pons asinorum in Euclid , he suffered every cuddie upon the common to trespass upon a large field of pease belonging to the Laird , and ...
... less capable of attending to the domestic duties of his grandmo- ther's farm . While studying the pons asinorum in Euclid , he suffered every cuddie upon the common to trespass upon a large field of pease belonging to the Laird , and ...
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... less wretched survivor , with the guilt of Cain , the first murderer , in your heart , with his stamp upon your brow - that stamp , which struck all who gazed on him with unutterable horror , and by which the murderer is made manifest ...
... less wretched survivor , with the guilt of Cain , the first murderer , in your heart , with his stamp upon your brow - that stamp , which struck all who gazed on him with unutterable horror , and by which the murderer is made manifest ...
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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.