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... Seyton partly knows , for since we were here I wrought her a silver brooch . " " Ay , " replied Catherine , " but you should tell her grace that your workmanship was so indifferent , that it. MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS . RUINS OF LOCHLEVEN ...
... Seyton partly knows , for since we were here I wrought her a silver brooch . " " Ay , " replied Catherine , " but you should tell her grace that your workmanship was so indifferent , that it. MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS . RUINS OF LOCHLEVEN ...
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... Seyton , " remember you are a queen . Better we all died in bravely attempting to gain our freedom , than remained here to be poisoned , as men rid them of the noxious vermin that haunt old houses . " " You are right , Catherine ...
... Seyton , " remember you are a queen . Better we all died in bravely attempting to gain our freedom , than remained here to be poisoned , as men rid them of the noxious vermin that haunt old houses . " " You are right , Catherine ...
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... Seyton to assist them to the boat . " unobserved provokingly dexterity overborne superstition effectual surrendered consideration communicate constancy harbour succession XVII . NAPOLEON'S FAREWELL . 1. Farewell to the land where the ...
... Seyton to assist them to the boat . " unobserved provokingly dexterity overborne superstition effectual surrendered consideration communicate constancy harbour succession XVII . NAPOLEON'S FAREWELL . 1. Farewell to the land where the ...
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... Seyton and the churchman . The former seemed instantly to take upon himself the whole direction of the enterprise . " My Lord Abbot , " he said , " give my sister your arm , I will conduct the Queen , and the youth will have the honour ...
... Seyton and the churchman . The former seemed instantly to take upon himself the whole direction of the enterprise . " My Lord Abbot , " he said , " give my sister your arm , I will conduct the Queen , and the youth will have the honour ...
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... Seyton ; " leave all behind so the Queen is safe . " " Will you permit this , madam ? " said Catherine , imploringly ; " you leave your deliverer to death . " " I will not , " said the Queen . " Seyton , I command you to stay at every ...
... Seyton ; " leave all behind so the Queen is safe . " " Will you permit this , madam ? " said Catherine , imploringly ; " you leave your deliverer to death . " " I will not , " said the Queen . " Seyton , I command you to stay at every ...
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Страница 112 - Van Bummel, the schoolmaster?" "He went off to the wars too, was a great militia general, and is now in congress." Rip's heart died away at hearing of these sad changes in his home and friends, and finding himself thus alone in the world. Every answer puzzled him too, by treating of such enormous lapses of time, and of matters which he could not understand: war — congress — Stony Point; — he had no courage to ask after any more friends, but cried out in despair, "Does nobody here know Rip Van...
Страница 198 - On the lofty British line. It was ten of April morn by the chime ; As they drifted on their path There was silence deep as death, And the boldest held his breath For a time. But the might of England flushed To anticipate the scene ; And her van the fleeter rushed O'er the deadly space between.
Страница 109 - The orator bustled up to him, and, drawing him partly aside, inquired " on which side he voted ?" Rip stared in vacant stupidity. Another short but busy little fellow pulled him by the arm, and, rising on tiptoe, inquired in his ear, " whether he was Federal or Democrat...
Страница 101 - On waking, he found himself on the green knoll whence he had first seen the old man of the glen. He rubbed his eyes. It was a bright, sunny morning. The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes, and the eagle was wheeling aloft and breasting the pure mountain breeze. "Surely," thought Rip. "I have not slept here all night.
Страница 90 - ... about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up like a crown of glory. At the foot of these fairy mountains...
Страница 94 - Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. For a long while he used to console himself, when driven from home, by frequenting a kind of perpetual club of the sages, philosophers, and other idle personages of the village; which held its sessions on a bench before a small inn, designated by a rubicund portrait of His Majesty George the Third.
Страница 110 - Nicholas Vedder! why, he is dead and gone these eighteen years! There was a wooden tombstone in the churchyard that used to tell all about him, but that's rotten and gone too.
Страница 104 - As he rose to walk, he found himself stiff in the joints, and wanting in his usual activity. "These mountain beds do not agree with me," thought Rip, " and if this frolic should lay me up with a fit of the rheumatism, I shall have a blessed time with Dame Van Winkle." With some difficulty he got down into the glen : he found the gully up which he and his companion had ascended the preceding evening ; but to his astonishment a mountain stream was now foaming down it, leaping from rock to rock, and...
Страница 194 - And the night went down, and the sun smiled out far over the summer sea, And the Spanish fleet with broken sides lay round us all in a ring; But they dared not touch us again, for they fear'd that we still could sting, So they watch'd what the end would be.
Страница 95 - ... of his wife, was to take gun in hand and stroll away into the woods. Here he would sometimes seat himself at the foot of a tree, and share the contents of his wallet with Wolf, with whom he sympathized as a fellowsufferer in persecution. "Poor Wolf...