The Waverley Novels, Volume 2Lippincott, Grambo, 1855 |
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Pagina 8
... served upon her by an officer during his conference with David . This precaution was so far favourable to Deans , that it saved him the pain of entering upon a formal explanation with his daughter ; he only said , with a hollow and ...
... served upon her by an officer during his conference with David . This precaution was so far favourable to Deans , that it saved him the pain of entering upon a formal explanation with his daughter ; he only said , with a hollow and ...
Pagina 22
... served my prince with my tongue ; I have served him with any little interest I had , and I have served him with my sword , and in my profession of arms . I have held employ- ments which I have lost , and were I to be to - morrow ...
... served my prince with my tongue ; I have served him with any little interest I had , and I have served him with my sword , and in my profession of arms . I have held employ- ments which I have lost , and were I to be to - morrow ...
Pagina 24
... served all the purposes of a riding - habit , and of an umbrella ; a small bundle contained such chan- ges of linen as were absolutely necessary . Barefooted , as Sancho says , she had come into the world , and barefooted she proposed ...
... served all the purposes of a riding - habit , and of an umbrella ; a small bundle contained such chan- ges of linen as were absolutely necessary . Barefooted , as Sancho says , she had come into the world , and barefooted she proposed ...
Pagina 25
... served as a case for a narrow turnpike - stair , by which an ascent was gained from story to story ; and at the ... serving maiden was so far from rejoicing in seeing a supposed aerial substitute discharging a task which she should have ...
... served as a case for a narrow turnpike - stair , by which an ascent was gained from story to story ; and at the ... serving maiden was so far from rejoicing in seeing a supposed aerial substitute discharging a task which she should have ...
Pagina 45
... served that the sashed door , which we have said , led from the anteroom into the garden , was opened , and that there entered , or rather was borne in by two as- sistants , a young man , of a very pale and sickly ap- pearance , whom ...
... served that the sashed door , which we have said , led from the anteroom into the garden , was opened , and that there entered , or rather was borne in by two as- sistants , a young man , of a very pale and sickly ap- pearance , whom ...
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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
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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.
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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.