 We have 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...  Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer - Страница 68по Walter Scott - 1820 - 358 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | C. van Tiel, M. G. van Neck - 1900 - 472 страници
...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,...dress of her ancestors. On this occasion, she had a 1) A half-witted gypsy. large piece of red cotton cloth rolled about her head in the form of a turban,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1910 - 636 страници
...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,...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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1910 - 634 страници
...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,...form of a turban, from beneath which her dark eyes dashed with uncommon lustre. Her long and tangled black hair fell in elf-locks from the folds of this... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1923 - 676 страници
...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,...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
...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,...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
...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,...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... | |
 | Harry E. Shaw - 1983 - 276 страници
...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,...traditional notions respecting the dress of her ancestors, [p. 49; ch. 8] As we attempt to use these hypotheses to explain Meg's mode of dress, we find ourselves... | |
 | 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
...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,...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
...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,...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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