The Gray Man: A NovelHarper and brothers, 1895 - 406 páginas |
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Abbot of Crossraguel Ailsa arms asked bade bairns Bargany Benane blood Carrick castle cave cloak Craufords cried crying Culzean dark death Dominie Mure door Drummurchie Dunure Earl John Earl of Cassillis Earl's Edinburgh enemy eyes face father fear fight Galloway Gilbert Kennedy Girvan gray Grieve's hand head hear heard heart Helen Kennedy horse James Mure John Dick John Mure Kate Allison Kerse King King's Kirk Kirrieoch kiss knew Lady Laird lass Launce Launcelot Kennedy Lochaber axe looked Lord Marjorie Kennedy master Maybole minister Mistress morning murderers Mure of Auchendrayne Nell Kennedy never night pistol Red Moss ride Robert Harburgh rode Sawny Bean side Sir Thomas Tode speak stone stood sword tell thing Thomas Kennedy thought told took town treasure of Kelwood turned walked William Dalrymple word young
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Página 255 - Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city; that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
Página 314 - I saw him take the first step towards us, for I knew that it was his forbidden treasure-house in which we lurked. So I thought it had come to the bitter push. But something yet more terrible than the matter of the boy diverted for the moment the monster's attention. The lad whom he had cast to the side had been left alone, none daring to meddle. But now, as he passed him, Sawny Bean gave the body a toss with his foot. At this, quick as a darting falcon on the stoop, a woman sprang at him from a crevice...
Página 129 - I would give my right hand if I could believe that."2 Christ makes even unbelievers wistful! The truth is, we were beat, and he stood up for us. We were down and out, and he came and stood by our side. We were sure the universe was dead against us, and he came to tell us that that was a malicious lie. He speaks to the worst of us as though we...
Página 315 - ... and took the gold brocade again in his hand. I thought that of a certainty now the time was come. And I looked at Nell Kennedy. God knows what was in my eyes. My heart was like to break. For the like of this pass was never man in. That I should have to smite my love to the death within an hour of the first kiss and the first owning of her affection! But she that loved me read my thought in mine eyes. She bared her neck for me, so that I could see its tender whiteness in the flicker of the fire....
Página 393 - For I will neither eat nor drink, Nor set a fit on groun' ! " The hallow days o' Yule were come, And the nights were lang and mirk. When in and cam her ain twa sons, And their hats made o' the birk. It neither grew in syke nor ditch, Nor yet in ony sheuch ; But at the gates o' Paradise That birk grew fair eneuch.
Página 41 - ... blotting out with a bitter scorn the plans of our wisest and the enmity of our proudest. CHAPTER VI THE CROWN OF THE CAUSEWAY I RODE forth from Edinburgh town with infinite glee and assurance of spirit. No longer could I be slighted as a boy, for that day I, even I, Launcelot Kennedy, had been put to the horn — that is, I had been proclaimed rebel and outlaw at the Cross of Edinburgh with three blasts of the king's horn, ' Against John, Earl of Cassillis, Sir Thomas of Culzean, called the Tutor...
Página 317 - But when in the gray of a stormy morning we reached the cliff's edge, we heard inland the wild voices of the gang yelling down the wind, as though the furies of fear were pursuing them and tearing at their vitals. What they expected I know not. But I guess that they must have taken us for whatever particular devil they happened to believe in, come to take them quick to their own place. Which, after all, could not be much worse than the den in which we had seen them at their disport, nor could all...
Página 313 - ... in the doorway. The imp squirmed round like a serpent and bit Sawny Bean in the leg, whereat he stooped, and, catching the lad by the feet, he dashed his head with a dull crash against the wall, and threw him quivering like a dead rabbit into the corner.