The Waverley Novels, Volume 2Lippincott, Grambo, 1855 |
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Pagina 1
... round the shoulder of the height . George Poinder , stay you with Ratcliffe and that mad yelling bitch ; and you other two , come with me round under the shadow of the brae . " while Ratcliffe , in seemingly anxious haste of obe- dience ...
... round the shoulder of the height . George Poinder , stay you with Ratcliffe and that mad yelling bitch ; and you other two , come with me round under the shadow of the brae . " while Ratcliffe , in seemingly anxious haste of obe- dience ...
Pagina 25
... round it , wore a sword , kept a good horse , and a brace of grey- hounds ; brawled , swore , and betted at cock - fights and horse - matches ; followed Somerville of Drum's hawks , and the Lord Ross's hounds , and called him- self ...
... round it , wore a sword , kept a good horse , and a brace of grey- hounds ; brawled , swore , and betted at cock - fights and horse - matches ; followed Somerville of Drum's hawks , and the Lord Ross's hounds , and called him- self ...
Pagina 27
... round , and saw ad- vancing towards her on a pony , whose bare back and halter assorted ill with the nightgown , slippers , and laced cocked - hat of the rider , a cavalier of no less im- portance than Dumbiedikes himself . In the ...
... round , and saw ad- vancing towards her on a pony , whose bare back and halter assorted ill with the nightgown , slippers , and laced cocked - hat of the rider , a cavalier of no less im- portance than Dumbiedikes himself . In the ...
Pagina 32
... round face at the far end of a strae bon - grace , that looks as muckle and round as the middell aisle in Libberton Kirk . But it sheds the sun weel aff , and keeps unceevil folk frae staring as if ane were a worrycow . I sall tell ye ...
... round face at the far end of a strae bon - grace , that looks as muckle and round as the middell aisle in Libberton Kirk . But it sheds the sun weel aff , and keeps unceevil folk frae staring as if ane were a worrycow . I sall tell ye ...
Pagina 34
... round , while the woman that sate behind her on the pillion seemed to urge her on , in words which Jeanie heard but imperfectly . 66 Haud your tongue , ye moon - raised b ! what is your business with - , or with heaven or hell either ...
... round , while the woman that sate behind her on the pillion seemed to urge her on , in words which Jeanie heard but imperfectly . 66 Haud your tongue , ye moon - raised b ! what is your business with - , or with heaven or hell either ...
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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.