The Waverley Novels, Volume 2Lippincott, Grambo, 1855 |
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... side of the street , and a little higher up . He passed , therefore , through the narrow and partly covered passage leading from the north - west end of the Parliament Square . He stood now before the Gothic entrance of the ancient ...
... side of the street , and a little higher up . He passed , therefore , through the narrow and partly covered passage leading from the north - west end of the Parliament Square . He stood now before the Gothic entrance of the ancient ...
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... side , and repeatedly urged to perform a duty al- ways the most painful which can be imposed on a clergyman deserving of the name , and now rendered more so by the peculiar and horrid circumstances of the criminal's case . Porteous at ...
... side , and repeatedly urged to perform a duty al- ways the most painful which can be imposed on a clergyman deserving of the name , and now rendered more so by the peculiar and horrid circumstances of the criminal's case . Porteous at ...
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... side of the Canongate , they gained the Abbey of to them mysell , and tauld them byganes suld be by- Holyroodhouse , and from thence found their way by ganes - her throat's sair misguggled and mashackered step and stile into the King's ...
... side of the Canongate , they gained the Abbey of to them mysell , and tauld them byganes suld be by- Holyroodhouse , and from thence found their way by ganes - her throat's sair misguggled and mashackered step and stile into the King's ...
Pagina 1
... side . " " There's a bloodhound ranging Tinwald wood , There's harness glancing sheen , There's a maiden sits on Tinwald brae , And she sings loud between . " 7 Madge had no sooner received the catch - word , than she vindicated ...
... side . " " There's a bloodhound ranging Tinwald wood , There's harness glancing sheen , There's a maiden sits on Tinwald brae , And she sings loud between . " 7 Madge had no sooner received the catch - word , than she vindicated ...
Pagina 2
... side of the hill , argued that there was any one within my old age , may her days be long in the land , ac- hearing . Jeanie Deans was left in the clear moon - cording to the promise thou hast given to those who light , standing under ...
... side of the hill , argued that there was any one within my old age , may her days be long in the land , ac- hearing . Jeanie Deans was left in the clear moon - cording to the promise thou hast given to those who light , standing under ...
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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.