The Waverley Novels, Volume 2Lippincott, Grambo, 1855 |
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... morning wi ' my mind just arranged touching what's to be done in puir Effie's misfortune , and hae gotten the haill sta tute at my finger - ends , the mob maun get up and string Jock Porteous to a dyester's beam , and ding a ' thing out ...
... morning wi ' my mind just arranged touching what's to be done in puir Effie's misfortune , and hae gotten the haill sta tute at my finger - ends , the mob maun get up and string Jock Porteous to a dyester's beam , and ding a ' thing out ...
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... morning , sir . " Stay - stay a bit , " rejoined Dumbiedikes ; " that was no what I had gotten to say . " Then , pray be quick , and let me have your com- mands , " rejoined Butler ; " I crave your pardon , but I am in haste , and ...
... morning , sir . " Stay - stay a bit , " rejoined Dumbiedikes ; " that was no what I had gotten to say . " Then , pray be quick , and let me have your com- mands , " rejoined Butler ; " I crave your pardon , but I am in haste , and ...
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... morning flung into her apartment through an open window , and the con tents of which were as singular as the expression was violent and energetic . " If she would save a hu- man being from the most damning guilt , and all Chap . XIV ...
... morning flung into her apartment through an open window , and the con tents of which were as singular as the expression was violent and energetic . " If she would save a hu- man being from the most damning guilt , and all Chap . XIV ...
Pagina 3
... morning early , he was under the neces- sity of making his report to the sitting magistrate of the day . The gentleman who occupied the chair of office on this occasion ( for the bailies , Anglicé , alder- men , take it by rotation ) ...
... morning early , he was under the neces- sity of making his report to the sitting magistrate of the day . The gentleman who occupied the chair of office on this occasion ( for the bailies , Anglicé , alder- men , take it by rotation ) ...
Pagina 12
... morning . Her apparel was neat and plain , but such as conveyed no exact intimation of her intentions to go abroad . She had exchanged her usual garb for morning labour , for one something inferior to that with which , as her best , she ...
... morning . Her apparel was neat and plain , but such as conveyed no exact intimation of her intentions to go abroad . She had exchanged her usual garb for morning labour , for one something inferior to that with which , as her best , she ...
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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
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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.