The Waverley Novels, Volume 2Lippincott, Grambo, 1855 |
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Pagina 33
... head and shoulders , scraped with his more to say , a more roguish country than the north , and advanced hoof , bolted the alcohol , to use the learned how ye are to get forward , I do not profess to know , phrase , and withdrew to his ...
... head and shoulders , scraped with his more to say , a more roguish country than the north , and advanced hoof , bolted the alcohol , to use the learned how ye are to get forward , I do not profess to know , phrase , and withdrew to his ...
Pagina 39
... head , I am judging . " famished person . The incident , trifling in itself , was Jeanie hesitated for a moment , on hearing her com- at present of great importance , if it should be found panion thus express herself , whether she had ...
... head , I am judging . " famished person . The incident , trifling in itself , was Jeanie hesitated for a moment , on hearing her com- at present of great importance , if it should be found panion thus express herself , whether she had ...
Pagina 67
... head and substantial person to which they be longed , were all turned towards the scene of action , could discern plainly the outline of the gallows tree relieved against the clear sky , the dark shade formed by the persons of the ...
... head and substantial person to which they be longed , were all turned towards the scene of action , could discern plainly the outline of the gallows tree relieved against the clear sky , the dark shade formed by the persons of the ...
Pagina 69
... head nearly to the ground that she might lay her hands on his horns , which were very large ; he she chanced to leave her flock feeding , as soon as they disco then lifted her gently from the ground by raising his head . I vered she was ...
... head nearly to the ground that she might lay her hands on his horns , which were very large ; he she chanced to leave her flock feeding , as soon as they disco then lifted her gently from the ground by raising his head . I vered she was ...
Pagina 77
... head rather than renunce casuistical problems , supposed so many extreme cases , the honesty of the heart . " made the distinctions so critical and nice betwixt the right - hand and the left - hand - betwixt compliance and defection ...
... head rather than renunce casuistical problems , supposed so many extreme cases , the honesty of the heart . " made the distinctions so critical and nice betwixt the right - hand and the left - hand - betwixt compliance and defection ...
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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.