Elizabeth de Bruce, by the author of Clan-Albin |
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... better than one , " and were , accordingly , stuck fast , arm in arm , like two adhering three - pennies , came thundering down upon the resounding causeway . Let it not , how- ever , be imagined , that this sudden loss of equi- librium ...
... better than one , " and were , accordingly , stuck fast , arm in arm , like two adhering three - pennies , came thundering down upon the resounding causeway . Let it not , how- ever , be imagined , that this sudden loss of equi- librium ...
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... chance wi ' ye . Better they be lost than the jewel o ' my gude name , " - and off the Deacon hobbled . He had not advanced many paces when his steps were arrested by the abrupt return of the muffled THE WINDY WEDNESDAY . 7.
... chance wi ' ye . Better they be lost than the jewel o ' my gude name , " - and off the Deacon hobbled . He had not advanced many paces when his steps were arrested by the abrupt return of the muffled THE WINDY WEDNESDAY . 7.
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... better understanding ; but this kindness he returned with affection equal to her own , in kind and in de- gree . Laughed at by the neighbourhood , the old woman considered a plague , the young man a jest , they formed a little world to ...
... better understanding ; but this kindness he returned with affection equal to her own , in kind and in de- gree . Laughed at by the neighbourhood , the old woman considered a plague , the young man a jest , they formed a little world to ...
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... better than twa - and - twenty year since the tinklers drappet ye like a fairy - token , at our back yett , yon morning , " said Effie , dri- ly . " Ye might no be aboon a year o ' a Chris- tian bairn's bouk ; but as ye girned up in my ...
... better than twa - and - twenty year since the tinklers drappet ye like a fairy - token , at our back yett , yon morning , " said Effie , dri- ly . " Ye might no be aboon a year o ' a Chris- tian bairn's bouk ; but as ye girned up in my ...
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... better . I have sma ' skill o ' hussey - skep , or tea - drinking trinkum- trankums ; and little brow o ' them since I saw a professing gentlewoman wha shall be nameless , of whom I had hoped better things , ready to swerf , as a weak ...
... better . I have sma ' skill o ' hussey - skep , or tea - drinking trinkum- trankums ; and little brow o ' them since I saw a professing gentlewoman wha shall be nameless , of whom I had hoped better things , ready to swerf , as a weak ...
Términos y frases comunes
Aileen auld Baby Strang bairn beth blessed blood bonnie called Cambuskenneth Captain Wolfe Castleburn Chaunette cried Deacon dean wood dear Delancy door Edinburgh Effie Effie's Eliza Elizabeth de Bruce Ernescraig eyes fair fear feelings frae Francie Frisel Fugal gentleman gi'e Gideon Haliburton grey gude ha'e hand Harletillum haugh head hear heard heart Holyrood honest honour hour Hutchen Jacky Jacobina Jenny Geddes John Hurcheon Juliana keep kind Lady Harriette Lady Tamtallan ladyship Laird landlady lass lassie laughing lips look Lord de Bruce maiden mair maun mind minister Miss Miss Jacky Monica Monks Monkshaugh morning mother never night O'Connor Oran owre poor puir Rantletree replied round shew Slattery smile Sourholes spirit sure tell thing thought tion tone voice weel whispered Whittret wife window Wolfe Grahame woman word young
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Página 93 - King for ever and ever, and the heathen are perished out of the land. 19 LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the poor ; thou preparest their heart, and thine ear hearkeneth thereto : 20 To help the fatherless and poor unto their right, that the man of the earth be no more exalted against them.
Página 309 - Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea, and one on shore, To one thing constant never. Then sigh not so, But let them go, And be you blithe and bonny. Converting all your sounds of woe Into Hey nonny, nonny.
Página 321 - O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.
Página 126 - And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.
Página 206 - ... speculative remembrance is only to call to mind the history of such a person and his sufferings ; that Christ was once put to death in the flesh. An affectionate remembrance is when we so call Christ and his death to our minds as to feel the powerful impressions thereof upon our hearts. Thus, "Peter remembered the word of the Lord, and went out, and wept bitterly.
Página 345 - Do my face (If thou had'st ever feeling of a sorrow) Thus, thus, Antiphila : strive to make me look Like Sorrow's monument ; and the trees about me, Let them be dry and leafless ; let the rocks Groan with continual surges ; and behind me, Make all a desolation.
Página 286 - I know each lane, and every alley green, Dingle, or bushy dell of this wild wood, And every bosky bourn from side to side...
Página 17 - And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
Página 321 - All ye that are about him, bemoan him ; and all ye that know his name, say, How is the strong staff broken, and the beautiful rod...
Página 168 - Those who go down to the sea in ships, and see the wonders of the great deep, have much to thole as well as to see, Captain Wolfe.