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Pagina 85
... Duncan , with great majesty , " I will teach the moonlight rapscallions and vagabonds to keep their ain side of the road , and be tamn'd to them ! " CHAPTER XLVII . Lord who would live turmoiled in a court , She tore herself from her ...
... Duncan , with great majesty , " I will teach the moonlight rapscallions and vagabonds to keep their ain side of the road , and be tamn'd to them ! " CHAPTER XLVII . Lord who would live turmoiled in a court , She tore herself from her ...
Pagina 86
... Duncan Knock , who swore that he thought the fairies must help her , since her house was always clean , and nobody ever saw any body sweeping it , " she modestly replied , " That much might be dune by timing ane's turns . Duncan replied ...
... Duncan Knock , who swore that he thought the fairies must help her , since her house was always clean , and nobody ever saw any body sweeping it , " she modestly replied , " That much might be dune by timing ane's turns . Duncan replied ...
Pagina 88
... Duncan , " what her practices or her postures are , but I pelieve that if the poys take hould on her to duck her in the Clachan purn , it will be a very sorry practice and I pelieve , moreover , that if I come in thirdsman among you at ...
... Duncan , " what her practices or her postures are , but I pelieve that if the poys take hould on her to duck her in the Clachan purn , it will be a very sorry practice and I pelieve , moreover , that if I come in thirdsman among you at ...
Pagina 89
Walter Scott. This , " Duncan said , " was speaking like a rea- | the sound of her voice , and cast of her countenance sonable shentleman ; " and so the evening passed peaceably off . Next morning , after the Captam had swallowed his ...
Walter Scott. This , " Duncan said , " was speaking like a rea- | the sound of her voice , and cast of her countenance sonable shentleman ; " and so the evening passed peaceably off . Next morning , after the Captam had swallowed his ...
Pagina 90
... Duncan of Knock and the minister , acknow - ed , as David Deans's cattle ( being the property of the ledging that his worthy substitute was sometimes a Duke ) were left untouched , when the minister's cows little too obstinate , as well ...
... Duncan of Knock and the minister , acknow - ed , as David Deans's cattle ( being the property of the ledging that his worthy substitute was sometimes a Duke ) were left untouched , when the minister's cows little too obstinate , as well ...
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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.