The Waverley Novels, Volume 2Lippincott, Grambo, 1855 |
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... true , indeed , that if I had hearkened with only one ear , I might have rehearsed my tale with more acceptation from those who love to hear but half the truth . It is , it may hap , not altogether to the discredit of our kindly uation ...
... true , indeed , that if I had hearkened with only one ear , I might have rehearsed my tale with more acceptation from those who love to hear but half the truth . It is , it may hap , not altogether to the discredit of our kindly uation ...
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... true , Mr. Dunover , " said one of the youngsters , " you must not remain on the pavé here ; you must go and have some dinner with us - Halkit and I must have a post - chaise to go on , at all events , and we will set you down wherever ...
... true , Mr. Dunover , " said one of the youngsters , " you must not remain on the pavé here ; you must go and have some dinner with us - Halkit and I must have a post - chaise to go on , at all events , and we will set you down wherever ...
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... true thing will triumph over the brightest inven- Bubbleburgh , were now forcibly detained to transport tions of the most ardent imagination . Magna est him , his agent , his valet , his jester , and his hard veritas , et prævalebit ...
... true thing will triumph over the brightest inven- Bubbleburgh , were now forcibly detained to transport tions of the most ardent imagination . Magna est him , his agent , his valet , his jester , and his hard veritas , et prævalebit ...
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... true , than mysell , maun be say I would claw down the tolbooth door wi ' my presidents and king's advocates , nae doubt , and who nails , " said Miss Grizel , " but I wad be at him . " " Ye may be very right , ladies , " said Butler ...
... true , than mysell , maun be say I would claw down the tolbooth door wi ' my presidents and king's advocates , nae doubt , and who nails , " said Miss Grizel , " but I wad be at him . " " Ye may be very right , ladies , " said Butler ...
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... true , gudewife , " said Saddletree , in reply , we are in loco parentis to him during his years of pupillarity , and I hae had thoughts of applying to the Court for a commission as factor loco tutoris , seeing there is nae tutor ...
... true , gudewife , " said Saddletree , in reply , we are in loco parentis to him during his years of pupillarity , and I hae had thoughts of applying to the Court for a commission as factor loco tutoris , seeing there is nae tutor ...
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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.