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Pagina 124
... Lord Keeper only received society out of policy or ostentation , and was by nature rather reserved and unsociable ; and thus no cavalier appeared to rival or to obscure the ideal picture of chivalrous excellence which Lucy had pictured ...
... Lord Keeper only received society out of policy or ostentation , and was by nature rather reserved and unsociable ; and thus no cavalier appeared to rival or to obscure the ideal picture of chivalrous excellence which Lucy had pictured ...
Pagina 129
... lord ! -I am sure ye sall aye be my lord w ' honest folk , as your noble ancestors hae been these three hundred years , and never asked a whig's leave . Sorry to see the Lord of Ravenswod at ane o ' his ain castles ! - ( Then again ...
... lord ! -I am sure ye sall aye be my lord w ' honest folk , as your noble ancestors hae been these three hundred years , and never asked a whig's leave . Sorry to see the Lord of Ravenswod at ane o ' his ain castles ! - ( Then again ...
Pagina 134
... lord , " replied Caleb ; " but it's no gentleman's deed of them to come here and exer- cise such like right , and your lordship living at your ain castle of Wolf's Crag . Lord Bittlebrains would do weel to remember what his folk have ...
... lord , " replied Caleb ; " but it's no gentleman's deed of them to come here and exer- cise such like right , and your lordship living at your ain castle of Wolf's Crag . Lord Bittlebrains would do weel to remember what his folk have ...
Pagina 140
... Lord Keeper and Ravenswood to keep Lucy from fainting . Thus was the Master a second time engaged in the most delicate and dan- gerous of all tasks , that of affording support and assistance to a beautiful and helpless being , who , as ...
... Lord Keeper and Ravenswood to keep Lucy from fainting . Thus was the Master a second time engaged in the most delicate and dan- gerous of all tasks , that of affording support and assistance to a beautiful and helpless being , who , as ...
Pagina 143
... Lord Ravenswood , " said Caleb , with great emphasis ; for , though con- scious he had little chance of advantage in the con- flict to ensue , he was resolved not to sacrifice one jot of honour . 66 " Lord Ravenswood , then , " said the ...
... Lord Ravenswood , " said Caleb , with great emphasis ; for , though con- scious he had little chance of advantage in the con- flict to ensue , he was resolved not to sacrifice one jot of honour . 66 " Lord Ravenswood , then , " said the ...
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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.