The Waverley Novels, Volumen9Lippincott, Grambo, 1855 |
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... seemed to hold some sort of authority among them , and occasionally directed their motions both by voice and hand ; at which times I thought his gestures were striking , and his voice uncommonly sonorous and commanding . The riders ...
... seemed to hold some sort of authority among them , and occasionally directed their motions both by voice and hand ; at which times I thought his gestures were striking , and his voice uncommonly sonorous and commanding . The riders ...
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... seemed , by the broken glances which the moon continued to throw upon it , to be steep , precipitous , and full of trees , which are , gene- rally speaking , rather scarce upon these shores . The descent by which we plunged into this ...
... seemed , by the broken glances which the moon continued to throw upon it , to be steep , precipitous , and full of trees , which are , gene- rally speaking , rather scarce upon these shores . The descent by which we plunged into this ...
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... seemed glazed , and there were what are called storm - windows in the roof , giving symptoms of the magnificence of a second story . The scene around was very interesting ; for the cottages , and the yards or crofts annexed to them ...
... seemed glazed , and there were what are called storm - windows in the roof , giving symptoms of the magnificence of a second story . The scene around was very interesting ; for the cottages , and the yards or crofts annexed to them ...
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... seemed as if it might occasion- ally sustain weapons of a description still less equivocally calculated for violence ... seemed perfectly to understand the nature of the prepara- tions , seated themselves one on each side of the table ...
... seemed as if it might occasion- ally sustain weapons of a description still less equivocally calculated for violence ... seemed perfectly to understand the nature of the prepara- tions , seated themselves one on each side of the table ...
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... seemed very pretty , and that she was a sweet and gentle - speaking creature , I have said all concerning her that I can tell thee . She vanished when the benediction was spoken . My host , with a muttered remark on the cold of our ride ...
... seemed very pretty , and that she was a sweet and gentle - speaking creature , I have said all concerning her that I can tell thee . She vanished when the benediction was spoken . My host , with a muttered remark on the cold of our ride ...
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Página 626 - Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace. With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.
Página 79 - ... a wild set in his day. At last they parted, and my gudesire was to ride hame through the wood of Pitmurkie, that is a' fou of black firs, as they say. — I ken the wood, but the firs may be black or white for what I can tell. — At the entry of the wood there is a wild common, and on the edge of the common, a little lonely change-house, that was keepit then by an...
Página 156 - My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here ; My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer; Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe, My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go.
Página 78 - I will know your thoughts; do you suppose that I have this money?" "Far be it frae me to say so," said Stephen. "Do you charge any of my people with having taken it?" "I wad be laith to charge them that may be innocent," said my gudesire; "and if there be any one that is guilty, I have nae proof." "Somewhere the money must be, if there is a word of truth in your story," said Sir John; "I ask where you think it is - and demand a correct answer.
Página 74 - Laurie had walth o' gear — could hunt wi' the hound and rin wi' the hare — and be Whig or Tory, saunt or sinner, as the wind stood. He was a professor in this Revolution warld, but he liked an orra sough of this warld, and a tune on the pipes weel...
Página 75 - Robert girned wi' pain, the jackanape girned too, like a sheep's-head between a pair of tangs — an ill-faur'd, fearsome couple they were. The laird's buff-coat was hung on a pin behind him, and his broadsword and his pistols within reach; for he keepit up the auld fashion of having the weapons ready, and a horse saddled day and night, just as he used to do when he was able to loup on horseback, and away after ony of the hill-folk he could get speerings of. Some said it was for fear of the Whigs...
Página 73 - Ye maun have heard of Sir Robert Redgauntlet of that Ilk, who lived in these parts before the dear years. The country will lang mind him, and our fathers used to draw breath thick if ever they heard him named. He was out wi* the Hielandmen in Montrose's time ; and again he was in the hills wi...
Página 76 - Robert was blowing it, and up got the twa auld serving-men, and tottered into the room where the dead man lay. Hutcheon saw aneugh at the first glance ; for there were torches in the room, which showed him the foul fiend, in his ain shape, sitting on the Laird's coffin ! Ower he couped as if he had been dead.
Página 80 - There was the Bluidy Advocate MacKenyie, who, for his worldly wit and wisdom had been to the rest as a god. And there was Claverhouse, as beautiful as when he lived...
Página 156 - For a' that, and a' that, And twice as much as a' that." I next endeavoured to intimate my wish to send notice of my condition to my friends ; and, despairing to find an air sufficiently expressive of my purpose, I ventured to sing a verse, which, in various forms, occurs so frequently in old ballads...