Rob Roy [by sir W. Scott]. With the author's last notes and additions |
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Aberfoil amang Andrew Fairservice answered appearance arms auld Bailie better betwixt called Campbell canna clan clan MacGregor command cousin Diana Vernon dinna door doubt Dougal Duke Duke of Montrose e'en escape expression eyes father favour fear feelings frae Frank gang gentleman gien Glasgow Glengyle Gregor gude hand head heard Hieland Highland honest honour horse Inglewood Inversnaid Jacobite James Jarvie Jobson Justice kend kinsman Loch Lomond look Lowland MacGregor mair manner maun mind Miss Vernon Mons Meg morning Morris muckle never night observed occasion Osbaldistone Hall Owen ower party person portmanteau puir Rashleigh recollection replied Rob Roy Rob Roy MacGregor Rob Roy's Robin Scotland seemed Sir Hildebrand speak suld suppose sword tell thae there's thing Thorncliff thought tion tone Tresham voice weel whilk wild word young
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Página 214 - And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me ; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein ; And he spread it before me ; and it was written within and without : and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
Página 226 - CHAPTER XXI. On the Rialto, every night at twelve, I take my evening's walk of meditation : There we two will meet. Venice Preserved. FULL of sinister augury, for which, however, I could assign no satisfactory cause, I shut myself up in my apartment at the inn, and having dismissed Andrew, after resisting his importunity to accompany him to St. Enoch's...
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Página 176 - It happened one day about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very^ plain to be seen in the sand.
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Página 365 - MacGregor commanded that the hostage exchanged for his safety should be brought into her presence. I believe her sons had kept this unfortunate wretch out of her sight, for fear of the consequences ; but if it was so, their humane precaution only postponed his fate. They dragged forward at her summons a wretch already half dead with terror, in whose agonized features I recognized, to my horror and astonishment, my old acquaintance Morris.
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Página 366 - She gave a brief command in Gaelic to her attendants, two of whom seized upon the prostrate suppliant and hurried him to the brink of a cliff which overhung the flood. He set up the most piercing and dreadful cries that fear ever uttered: I may well term them dreadful, for they haunted my sleep for years afterwards.