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Pagina 11
... hear of him ! " to save my life . I might have fled frae this tolbooth Jeanie sighed , and commenced her narrative of all on that awfu ' night wi ' ane wad hae carried me through that had passed betwixt Robertson and her , making the ...
... hear of him ! " to save my life . I might have fled frae this tolbooth Jeanie sighed , and commenced her narrative of all on that awfu ' night wi ' ane wad hae carried me through that had passed betwixt Robertson and her , making the ...
Pagina 22
... hear , " continued the orator , if ye will come in bye to our house , for it's safest speaking of sic things inter parietes . " 14 When they entered his shop he thrust his prentice boy out of it , and unlocking his desk , took out ...
... hear , " continued the orator , if ye will come in bye to our house , for it's safest speaking of sic things inter parietes . " 14 When they entered his shop he thrust his prentice boy out of it , and unlocking his desk , took out ...
Pagina 26
... hear , breakfast wi ' us your- sell - ye ken how to manage the porringers of tea- water - and , hear ye , see abune a ' that there's a gude fire . - Weel , Jeanie , my woman , gang in by - gang in by , and rest ye . " " Na , Laird ...
... hear , breakfast wi ' us your- sell - ye ken how to manage the porringers of tea- water - and , hear ye , see abune a ' that there's a gude fire . - Weel , Jeanie , my woman , gang in by - gang in by , and rest ye . " " Na , Laird ...
Pagina 30
... hear about ) did some gude langsyne to the forbear of this MacCallummore , when he was Lord of Lorn ? " " He did so , " said Butler , eagerly , " and I can prove it - I will write to the Duke of Argyle - report speaks him a good kindly ...
... hear about ) did some gude langsyne to the forbear of this MacCallummore , when he was Lord of Lorn ? " " He did so , " said Butler , eagerly , " and I can prove it - I will write to the Duke of Argyle - report speaks him a good kindly ...
Pagina 38
... hear Tom com- ing in . We'll couch a hogshead , and so better had you . " They retired to repose , accordingly , and all was silent in this asylum of iniquity . Jeanie lay for a long time awake . At break of day she heard the two ...
... hear Tom com- ing in . We'll couch a hogshead , and so better had you . " They retired to repose , accordingly , and all was silent in this asylum of iniquity . Jeanie lay for a long time awake . At break of day she heard the two ...
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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
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.