Waverley Novels, Том 1Ticknor and Fields, 1867 |
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answered arms auld Balfour battle blood body Bothwell Burley called canna carabines castle cause Charnwood Claver Claverhouse Colonel Grahame command Cornet Covenant Covenanters Cuddie death dinna dragoons e'en enemy Erastianism exclaimed father favour frae gang gentleman Girthon gude Gudyill Halliday hand head hear heard Henry Morton hill honour horse housekeeper insurgents JEDEDIAH CLEISHBOTHAM Jenny Dennison Kettledrummle King King's Lady Margaret Bellenden leddy Life-Guards Lochgoin look Lord Evandale mair Major Bellenden maun Mause Milnwood Miss Bellenden Miss Edith mother ne'er never occasion officer Old Mortality ower party person popinjay presbyterians prisoner puir roundheads Scotland seemed sergeant Sir John Jardine soldiers speak sword thae thee thou Tillietudlem tion tone Tower of Tillietudlem troopers turn uncle uncle's wad hae weel whig word ye hae young zeal
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Страница 102 - AN HEAVY YOKE is upon the sons of Adam, from the day that they go out of their mother's womb, till the day that they return to the mother of all things.
Страница 160 - Did I but purpose to embark with thee On the smooth surface of a summer's sea ; While gentle zephyrs play in prosperous gales, And fortune's favour fills the swelling sails ; But would forsake the ship, and make the shore, When the winds whistle, and the tempests roar...
Страница 244 - Those that were stout of heart are spoil'd, They slept their sleep outright ; And none of those their hands did find, That were the men of might. "When thy rebuke, O Jacob's God, Had forth against them past, Their horses and their chariots both Were in a deep sleep cast.
Страница 34 - It has often been remarked of the Scottish character, that the stubbornness with which it is moulded shows most to advantage in adversity when it seems akin to the native sycamore of their hills, which scorns to be biassed in its mode of growth even by the influence of the prevailing wind, but, shooting its branches with equal boldness in every direction, shows no weather side to the storm, and may be broken, but can never be bended.
Страница 147 - I AM a son of Mars, Who have been in many wars, And show my cuts and scars Wherever I come ; This here was for a wench, And that other in a trench, When welcoming the French At the sound of the drum.
Страница 98 - We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
Страница 114 - Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of music...
Страница 35 - An old man was seated upon the monument of the slaughtered Presbyterians, and busily employed in deepening with his chisel the letters of the inscription, which, announcing in scriptural language the promised blessings of futurity to be the lot of the slain, anathematized the murderers with corresponding violence. A blue bonnet of unusual dimensions covered the gray hairs of the pious workman.
Страница 283 - Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, Or the captives of the victorious be delivered? "But thus saith the LORD: Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, And the prey of the terrible shall be delivered; And I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, And I will save thy children.
Страница 98 - The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.