The Waverley Novels, Брой 24Estes and Lauriat, 1893 |
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... . MORDAUNT IN YELLOWLEY'S COTTAGE SCALLOWAY CASTLE MORDAUNT RESCUING CLEVELAND THE SWORD DANCE . NORNA TELLING HER TALE PAGE Frontispiece 40 112 234 297 EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION ΤΟ THE PIRATE . THE circumstances in which.
... . MORDAUNT IN YELLOWLEY'S COTTAGE SCALLOWAY CASTLE MORDAUNT RESCUING CLEVELAND THE SWORD DANCE . NORNA TELLING HER TALE PAGE Frontispiece 40 112 234 297 EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION ΤΟ THE PIRATE . THE circumstances in which.
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... tell us the following erroneous particulars : - In the month of January , 1724-5 , a vessel , called the Revenge , bearing twenty large guns , and six smaller , commanded by JOHN Gow , or GOFFE , or SMITH , came to the Orkney Islands ...
... tell us the following erroneous particulars : - In the month of January , 1724-5 , a vessel , called the Revenge , bearing twenty large guns , and six smaller , commanded by JOHN Gow , or GOFFE , or SMITH , came to the Orkney Islands ...
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... tell ' 22 " Nor does it greatly matter , " said Mertoun , some- what abruptly . - " Not a herring's scale , " answered the Laird ; " only that I like you the better for being no Scot , as I trust you are not one . Hither they have come ...
... tell ' 22 " Nor does it greatly matter , " said Mertoun , some- what abruptly . - " Not a herring's scale , " answered the Laird ; " only that I like you the better for being no Scot , as I trust you are not one . Hither they have come ...
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... tell his comrades that if they pro- voked Master Mertoun any farther , he would turn an absolute Pate Stewart1 on their hand , and head and hang without either judgment or mercy . Hither also came the discarded housekeeper , to consult ...
... tell his comrades that if they pro- voked Master Mertoun any farther , he would turn an absolute Pate Stewart1 on their hand , and head and hang without either judgment or mercy . Hither also came the discarded housekeeper , to consult ...
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... tell the virtues of the dear departed , Than , when the tempest sends his voice abroad , Be subject to its fury . The Double Nuptials . THE spring was far advanced , when , after a week spent in sport and festivity at Burgh - Westra ...
... tell the virtues of the dear departed , Than , when the tempest sends his voice abroad , Be subject to its fury . The Double Nuptials . THE spring was far advanced , when , after a week spent in sport and festivity at Burgh - Westra ...
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ancient answered betwixt Bimbister boat brave Burgh-Westra called Captain Cleveland Claud Halcro dance dark daunt door Drows Dwarfie Stone father fear Fitful-head frae gangrel guests hand hastily hear heard heart hospitality islands isles jagger Jarlshof John Dryden Kirkwall lady land Lerwick look Magnus Troil maidens mair Maister Mordaunt mansion master mind Minna Mistress Baby Mordaunt Mertoun Nereid never Norna Norse Norsemen occasion Odin old Norse once Orkney pedlar Pirate plough Ranzelman replied Mordaunt rock scarce Scart Scotland seemed shore sister Skerry song speak spirit storm Stourburgh stranger Sumburgh Head supernatural supposed Swertha swords tacksman tale tell tempest thing thou thought Thule tion tone Triptolemus Yellowley Tronda Udaller usual vessel voice waves weel Westra wild wind woman words young youth Zetland
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Страница x - When sore beset at home in this way, he would every now and then discover that he had some very particular business to attend to on an outlying part of his estate ; and, craving the indulgence of his guests overnight, appear at the cabin in the glen before its inhabitants were astir in the morning. The clatter of Sibyl Grey's hoofs, the yelping of Mustard and Spice, and his own joyous shout of reveillee under our windows, were the signal that he had burst his toils, and meant for that day to "take...
Страница 30 - SHE walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies ; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes : Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
Страница xvii - Not as their friend or child I speak! But as on some far northern strand, Thinking of his own Gods, a Greek In pity and mournful awe might stand Before some fallen Runic stone — For both were faiths, and both are gone.
Страница 266 - ... itself upon the minds of a people otherwise kind, moral, and hospitable. But all with whom I have spoken agree that it was almost general in the beginning of the eighteenth century, and was with difficulty weeded out by the sedulous instructions of the clergy and the rigorous injunctions of the proprietors. There is little doubt it had been originally introduced as an excuse for suffering those who attempted to escape from the wreck to perish unassisted, so that, there being no survivor, she...
Страница 184 - I fear, too early : for my mind misgives, Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, Shall bitterly begin his fearful date With this night's revels...
Страница 88 - He was a lovely youth ! I guess The panther in the wilderness Was not so fair as he ; And, when he chose to sport and play, No dolphin ever was so gay Upon the tropic sea.
Страница 148 - Was but the prelude to that glorious day, When thou on silver Thames did'st cut thy way, With...