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Pagina 126
... horse has cast himself over his halter in the stable , and is dead lame - his hackney will be set up with the day's work , and now he has no fresh horse , he will never get off . " Egad , there will be no moving with the speed of ...
... horse has cast himself over his halter in the stable , and is dead lame - his hackney will be set up with the day's work , and now he has no fresh horse , he will never get off . " Egad , there will be no moving with the speed of ...
Pagina 127
... horse , and was heard to ride off . by Mortbleu ! " said Captain Craigengelt , " my recruit is lost ! " " Ay ... horse , and , for the animal's ease , was proceeding at a slow pace from the Tod's Den towards his old tower of Wolf's Crag ...
... horse , and was heard to ride off . by Mortbleu ! " said Captain Craigengelt , " my recruit is lost ! " " Ay ... horse , and , for the animal's ease , was proceeding at a slow pace from the Tod's Den towards his old tower of Wolf's Crag ...
Pagina 128
... horse permitted , until night having gradually closed around them , they discontinued their speed , both from the difficulty of discovering their path , and from the hope that they were beyond the reach of pursuit or observation . " And ...
... horse permitted , until night having gradually closed around them , they discontinued their speed , both from the difficulty of discovering their path , and from the hope that they were beyond the reach of pursuit or observation . " And ...
Pagina 129
... horses see the stable , that's all . " " O yes , sir - ay , sir , -unquestionably ,, sir - my lord and ony of his honourable companions " But our horses , my old friend - our horses ; they will be dead - foundered by standing here in ...
... horses see the stable , that's all . " " O yes , sir - ay , sir , -unquestionably ,, sir - my lord and ony of his honourable companions " But our horses , my old friend - our horses ; they will be dead - foundered by standing here in ...
Pagina 134
... horse , he followed Bucklaw , who , at the manifest risk of his neck , had begun to gallop down the steep path which led from the Tower , as soon as he saw Ravenswood have his foot in the stirrup . Caleb Balderstone looked anxiously ...
... horse , he followed Bucklaw , who , at the manifest risk of his neck , had begun to gallop down the steep path which led from the Tower , as soon as he saw Ravenswood have his foot in the stirrup . Caleb Balderstone looked anxiously ...
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
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.