The Waverley Novels, Volume 2Lippincott, Grambo, 1855 |
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... true , reflects little credit on the taste of the Good Town or its leaders . * by two bakers , who put a Lochaber - axe into his hand . The jury , wisely judging this poor creature could be no proper subject of punishment , found the ...
... true , reflects little credit on the taste of the Good Town or its leaders . * by two bakers , who put a Lochaber - axe into his hand . The jury , wisely judging this poor creature could be no proper subject of punishment , found the ...
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... true which is false . " " are you afraid of what they may do to you ? I tell you even the retainers of the law , who course life as greyhounds do hares , will rejoice at the escape of a creature so young - so beautiful ; that they will ...
... true which is false . " " are you afraid of what they may do to you ? I tell you even the retainers of the law , who course life as greyhounds do hares , will rejoice at the escape of a creature so young - so beautiful ; that they will ...
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... true love o ' mine , O. " Of all the mad women who have sung and said , since the days of Hamlet the Dane , if Ophelia be the most affecting , Madge Wildfire was the most provoking , The procurator - fiscal was in despair . " I'll take ...
... true love o ' mine , O. " Of all the mad women who have sung and said , since the days of Hamlet the Dane , if Ophelia be the most affecting , Madge Wildfire was the most provoking , The procurator - fiscal was in despair . " I'll take ...
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... true that you are saying , Effie , " said Sharpitlaw . " Where was't that Robertson and you were used to howff thegither ? Somegate about the Laigh Calton , I am thinking . " The simple and dispirited girl had thus far followed Mr ...
... true that you are saying , Effie , " said Sharpitlaw . " Where was't that Robertson and you were used to howff thegither ? Somegate about the Laigh Calton , I am thinking . " The simple and dispirited girl had thus far followed Mr ...
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... true , " said Sharpitlaw ; " and if he thinks her alone he's as like to come towards her as to rin frae her . So set forward - we hae lost ower muckle time already - see to get her to keep the right road . " And what sort o ' house does ...
... true , " said Sharpitlaw ; " and if he thinks her alone he's as like to come towards her as to rin frae her . So set forward - we hae lost ower muckle time already - see to get her to keep the right road . " And what sort o ' house does ...
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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.