The Waverley Novels, Volume 2Lippincott, Grambo, 1855 |
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... better for them , " said Saddletree , as they left the house together , " by sending me the thretty punds . " " Thretty punds ? " hesitated Dumbiedikes , who was now out of the reach of those eyes which had inflamed his generosity ; " I ...
... better for them , " said Saddletree , as they left the house together , " by sending me the thretty punds . " " Thretty punds ? " hesitated Dumbiedikes , who was now out of the reach of those eyes which had inflamed his generosity ; " I ...
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... better man . - Ye'll get nae saints to be searchers for uncustomed goods , or for thieves and sic like ; -and your decent sort of men , religious pro- fessors , and broken tradesmen , that are put into the like o ' sic trust , can do ...
... better man . - Ye'll get nae saints to be searchers for uncustomed goods , or for thieves and sic like ; -and your decent sort of men , religious pro- fessors , and broken tradesmen , that are put into the like o ' sic trust , can do ...
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... better - Heigh ho " of the Tolbooth , man -- that is , in case of gude be -- ( and something like melancholy dwelt on her fea- haviour . " to this Effie she's strange to this place and to. " Hu's better born , I judge , than he cares to ...
... better - Heigh ho " of the Tolbooth , man -- that is , in case of gude be -- ( and something like melancholy dwelt on her fea- haviour . " to this Effie she's strange to this place and to. " Hu's better born , I judge , than he cares to ...
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... better than is usually supplied to prisoners , but it was untouched . The person under whose care she was more particu- larly placed said , " that sometimes she tasted nae- thing from the tae end of the four - and - twenty hours to the ...
... better than is usually supplied to prisoners , but it was untouched . The person under whose care she was more particu- larly placed said , " that sometimes she tasted nae- thing from the tae end of the four - and - twenty hours to the ...
Pagina 11
... better place , was wi me for giving ye milk and water to drink , because ye grat for it ? Ye were a bairn then , and ye are a wo- man now , and should ken better than ask what canna but hurt you - But come weal or wo , I canna refuse ...
... better place , was wi me for giving ye milk and water to drink , because ye grat for it ? Ye were a bairn then , and ye are a wo- man now , and should ken better than ask what canna but hurt you - But come weal or wo , I canna refuse ...
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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.