The Waverley Novels, Volumen9Lippincott, Grambo, 1855 |
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... sides your slow and broad northern pronunciation , which was to me the tone of a foreign land . I am sensible I myself ... side , I found myself subjected to a new trick on the part of my ac- complished preceptor . Apparently , he liked ...
... sides your slow and broad northern pronunciation , which was to me the tone of a foreign land . I am sensible I myself ... side , I found myself subjected to a new trick on the part of my ac- complished preceptor . Apparently , he liked ...
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... side I came from . ” " Best make haste then , " said he . " He that dreams on the bed of the Solway , may wake in the next world . The sky threatens a blast that will bring in the waves three feet a - breast . " So saying he turned his ...
... side I came from . ” " Best make haste then , " said he . " He that dreams on the bed of the Solway , may wake in the next world . The sky threatens a blast that will bring in the waves three feet a - breast . " So saying he turned his ...
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... side of the little glen while finding its course close to the farther bank , and which appeared to be covered and darkened with trees , while the level space beneath enjoyed such stormy smiles as the moon had that night to bestow . I ...
... side of the little glen while finding its course close to the farther bank , and which appeared to be covered and darkened with trees , while the level space beneath enjoyed such stormy smiles as the moon had that night to bestow . I ...
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... side of the table , to be ready to receive their portion of the entertainment . I never saw finer animals , or which seemed to be more influenced by a sense of decorum , excepting that they slobbered a little as the rich scent from the ...
... side of the table , to be ready to receive their portion of the entertainment . I never saw finer animals , or which seemed to be more influenced by a sense of decorum , excepting that they slobbered a little as the rich scent from the ...
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... side of the recess contained ( as far as I could discern , for it lay in shadow , and I could at any rate have seen it but imperfectly from the place where I was seated ) one or two guns , together with swords , pistols , and other arms ...
... side of the recess contained ( as far as I could discern , for it lay in shadow , and I could at any rate have seen it but imperfectly from the place where I was seated ) one or two guns , together with swords , pistols , and other arms ...
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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...