 ... noticed, that there was in her general attire, or rather in her mode of adjusting it, somewhat of a foreign costume, artfully adopted perhaps for the purpose of adding to the effect of her spells and predictions, or perhaps from some traditional notions...  Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer - Страница 123по Walter Scott - 1815 - 358 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1923 - 676 страници
...and predictions, or perhaps from some traditional notions respecting the dress of her ancestors. On this occasion she had a large piece of red cotton...uncommon lustre. Her long and tangled black hair fell in elf-locks from the folds of this singular head-gear. Her attitude was that of a sibyl in frenzy, and... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1124 страници
...and predictions, or perhaps from some traditional notions respecting the dress of her ancestors. On this occasion, she had a large piece of red cotton...uncommon lustre. Her long and tangled black hair fell in elf-locks from the folds of this singular head-gear. Her attitude was that of a sibyl in frenzy, and... | |
 | Henry Adelbert White - 1927 - 284 страници
...and predictions, or perhaps from some traditional notions respecting the dress of her ancestors. On this occasion, she had a large piece of red cotton...uncommon lustre. Her long and tangled black hair fell in elf-locks from the folds of this singular head-gear. Her attitude was that of a sibyl in frenzy, and... | |
 | Nancy Dew Taylor - 1994 - 290 страници
...Milledge 86-93). In Sir Walter Scott's Guy Mannering (1:141) Meg Merrilies, queen of her tribe (who "had a large piece of red cotton cloth rolled about her head in the form of a turban"), lashes out at Bertram, who runs the gypsies off his land, by saying: "This day ye have quenched seven... | |
 | Arthur Woollgar Verrall - 1913 - 420 страници
...and predictions, or perhaps from some traditional notions respecting the dress of her ancestors. On this occasion she had a large piece of red cotton...uncommon lustre. Her long and tangled black hair fell in elf-locks from the folds of this singular head-gear. Her attitude was that of a sibyl in frenzy, and... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1892 - 738 страници
...and predictions, or perhaps from some traditional notions respecting the dress of her ancestors. On this occasion she had a large piece of red cotton...uncommon lustre. Her long and tangled black hair fell in elf-locks from the folds of this singular head-gear. Her attitude was that of a sibyl in frenzy, and... | |
 | C. Van Tiel, M.G. van Neck - 1912 - 424 страници
...and predictions, or perhaps from some traditional notions respecting the dress ot her ancestors. OD this occasion, she had a large piece of red cotton...uncommon lustre. Her long and tangled black hair fell in elf-locks from the folds of this singular head-gear. Her attitude was that of a sibyl in frenzy, and... | |
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