Waverley novels. Parker's ed., revised, Томове 9–10 |
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... fears that all was not right , which men usually term a pre- sentiment of misfortune . Ere he reached the top of the bank from which he could look down on his own habita- tion , he was met by his nurse , a person then of great ...
... fears that all was not right , which men usually term a pre- sentiment of misfortune . Ere he reached the top of the bank from which he could look down on his own habita- tion , he was met by his nurse , a person then of great ...
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... fear- lessly with the torch . The marauder snapped his piece at him , which , fortu- nately for our honest friend , did not go off ; while Earns- cliff , firing at the same moment at the narrow aperture and slight mark afforded by the ...
... fear- lessly with the torch . The marauder snapped his piece at him , which , fortu- nately for our honest friend , did not go off ; while Earns- cliff , firing at the same moment at the narrow aperture and slight mark afforded by the ...
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... Fear nothing , " whispered Earnscliff , “ I will pro- tect you with my life . " Then turning to Westburnflat , " Villain ! " he said , " how dared you to insult this lady ? " " For that matter , Earnscliff , " answered the freeboot- " I ...
... Fear nothing , " whispered Earnscliff , “ I will pro- tect you with my life . " Then turning to Westburnflat , " Villain ! " he said , " how dared you to insult this lady ? " " For that matter , Earnscliff , " answered the freeboot- " I ...
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... fears seemed for some time to be unfounded . The only sentences which her father from time to time addressed to her , respected the beauties of the romantic landscape through which they strolled , and which varied its features at every ...
... fears seemed for some time to be unfounded . The only sentences which her father from time to time addressed to her , respected the beauties of the romantic landscape through which they strolled , and which varied its features at every ...
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... fear , but still my child - my only child . Where is Miss Ilderton ? she must know something of this . It corresponds with what I was informed of her schemes . Go , Dixon , call Ratcliffe here - Let him come without a minute's delay ...
... fear , but still my child - my only child . Where is Miss Ilderton ? she must know something of this . It corresponds with what I was informed of her schemes . Go , Dixon , call Ratcliffe here - Let him come without a minute's delay ...
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answered arms auld Balfour blood body Bothwell Burley called canna Castle cause Claverhouse Colonel Grahame command Cornet Covenant Covenanters Cuddie dinna door dragoons Duke of Monmouth Dwarf e'en Earnscliff Edith Ellieslaw Elliot Elshie enemy Erastian Evandale's exclaimed eyes father favour fear followed frae gentleman gude Gudyill Halliday hand head hear heard heart Henry Morton hinny Hobbie honour horse Ilderton insurgents Isabella Jenny Kettledrummle Lady Margaret leddy look Lord Evandale Macbriar mair Major Bellenden Mareschal maun Mause Milnwood misanthropy Miss Bellenden Miss Vere morning mother muckle never Old Mortality onything ower party person popinjay Poundtext presbyterian prisoner puir Ratcliffe replied Morton Scotland seemed Sir Frederick soldiers speak sword thae thee there's thou Tillietudlem tion Tower voice weel Westburnflat whig woman word ye'll young
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Страница 54 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Страница 48 - Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered : for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children. 26 And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh ; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine : and all flesh shall know that 1 the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
Страница 20 - Ziou is his seat. There arrows of the bow he brake, The shield, the sword, the war, More glorious thou than hills of prey, More excellent art far.
Страница 15 - To save the expense of Christian blood, And try if we, by mediation Of treaty, and accommodation, » Can end the quarrel, and compose This bloody duel without blows.
Страница 166 - ... to soften obstinacy; and whose very powers of intellect have been confounded by hearing the same dull lesson repeated a hundred times by rote, and only varied by the various blunders of the reciters. Even the flowers of classic genius, with which his solitary fancy is most gratified...
Страница 180 - ... in rotation, at the distance of sixty or seventy paces. He whose ball brought down the mark, held the proud title of Captain of the Popinjay for the remainder of the day, and was usually escorted in triumph to the most reputable change-house in the neighbourhood, where the evening was closed with conviviality, conducted under his auspices, and, if he was able to sustain it, at his expense.
Страница 177 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Страница 232 - Your leddyship and the steward hae been pleased to propose that my son Cuddie suld work in the barn wi' a new-fangled machine * for dighting the corn frae the chaff, thus impiously thwarting the will of Divine Providence, by raising wind for your leddyship's ain particular use by human art, instead of soliciting it by prayer, or waiting patiently for whatever dispensation of wind Providence was pleased to send upon the sheelingliill.