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... horse could trot , and twenty red - coats at his back . Twa or three chields wad needs fight , wi ' the pistol and the whinger in the tae hand , and the Bible in the t'other , and they got their crowns weel clowred ; but there was nae ...
... horse could trot , and twenty red - coats at his back . Twa or three chields wad needs fight , wi ' the pistol and the whinger in the tae hand , and the Bible in the t'other , and they got their crowns weel clowred ; but there was nae ...
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... horses feet ; but an ' we were anes on saft grund , we'll hear news o ' a ' this . ' Cuddie's conjectures were but too true . The words of the prisoners had not been much attended to while drown- ed by the clang of the horses hoofs on a ...
... horses feet ; but an ' we were anes on saft grund , we'll hear news o ' a ' this . ' Cuddie's conjectures were but too true . The words of the prisoners had not been much attended to while drown- ed by the clang of the horses hoofs on a ...
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... horses and men , that , showing more like a drove of black cattle than a body of soldiers , crawled slowly along the face of the hill , their force and their numbers seeming trifling and contemptible . ' Surely , ' said Morton to ...
... horses and men , that , showing more like a drove of black cattle than a body of soldiers , crawled slowly along the face of the hill , their force and their numbers seeming trifling and contemptible . ' Surely , ' said Morton to ...
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... horses over drains and gullies , or to push them through morasses and swamps . ' Through the help of the Lord I have leaped over a wall , ' exclaimed poor Mause , as her horse was , by her rude attendants , brought up to leap the turf ...
... horses over drains and gullies , or to push them through morasses and swamps . ' Through the help of the Lord I have leaped over a wall , ' exclaimed poor Mause , as her horse was , by her rude attendants , brought up to leap the turf ...
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Walter Scott. ed , one severely . They then mounted their horses , and disappeared over the ridge of the hill , retreating with so much coolness as evidently showed , that , on the one hand they were undismayed by the approach of so ...
Walter Scott. ed , one severely . They then mounted their horses , and disappeared over the ridge of the hill , retreating with so much coolness as evidently showed , that , on the one hand they were undismayed by the approach of so ...
Términos y frases comunes
Ailie answered Morton arms army auld battle blood body Bothwell Burley canna carabines Castle cause Claverhouse command Cornet council Covenant Covenanters defend dragoons Duke Duke of Monmouth e'en Edith enemy Erastian Evandale's exclaimed eyes favour fear fire followers frae garrison gi'e Glasgow Grahame gude Habakkuk Halliday hand hath head Headrigg hear heard heart Heaven Henry Morton hinny honour horse insurgents JEDEDIAH CLEISHBOTHAM Jenny John Gudyill Kettledrummle King Lady Margaret leaders leddy look Lord Evandale Macbriar mair Major Bellenden maun Mause means ment Milnwood Miss Bellenden moderate party Monmouth morning muckle never officer ower party Poundtext presbyterian prisoner puir rebels replied Morton retreat returned Scotland seemed soldiers speak stranger suld sword thee thing Tillietudlem tion troopers turned voice wad hae weel whig woman word ye'll young
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Página 20 - Assyrians as prophetical of the issue of their own impending contest :— " 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 dead sleep cast.
Página 17 - SAVE me, O God ; for the waters are come in unto my soul. I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
Página 39 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Página 81 - And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
Página 90 - Ah, fields beloved in vain, Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain ? I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Página 44 - 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 I the Lord am thy Saviour And thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
Página 65 - WE return to Henry Morton, whom we left on the field of battle. He was eating by one of the watch-fires his portion of the provisions which had been distributed to the army, and musing deeply on the path which he was next to pursue, when Burley suddenly came up to him, accompanied by the young minister, whose exhortation, after the victory had produced such a powerful effect. 'Henry Morton...
Página 25 - Return to them that sent thee," said the insurgent leader, " and tell them that we are this day in arms for a broken Covenant and a persecuted Kirk ; tell them that we renounce the licentious and perjured Charles Stuart, whom you call King, even as he renounced the Covenant, after having once and again sworn to prosecute to the utmost of his power all the ends thereof, really, constantly, and sincerely, all the days of his life, having no enemies but the enemies of the Covenant, and no friends b«t...
Página 22 - 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.
Página 45 - For Tophet is ordained of old ; Yea, for the king it is prepared ; He hath made it deep and large: The pile thereof is fire and much wood ; The breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.