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... it must be acknowledged by the most sceptical , that I , who have sat in the leathern arm - chair , on the left - hand side of the fire , in the common room of the Wallace Inn , winter and sum- mer , for every evening in my life , during.
... it must be acknowledged by the most sceptical , that I , who have sat in the leathern arm - chair , on the left - hand side of the fire , in the common room of the Wallace Inn , winter and sum- mer , for every evening in my life , during.
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... fire - arms . This was the figure of a bird , decked with party - coloured feathers , so as to resemble a popinjay or parrot . It was suspended to a pole , and served for a mark at which the competitors discharged their fusees and ...
... fire - arms . This was the figure of a bird , decked with party - coloured feathers , so as to resemble a popinjay or parrot . It was suspended to a pole , and served for a mark at which the competitors discharged their fusees and ...
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... back , and motioning with his hand for the bystanders to make way , set spurs , passed the place from which he was to fire at a gallop , and , as he passed , threw up the reins , turned sideways upon his saddle , 36 TALES OF MY LANDLORD .
... back , and motioning with his hand for the bystanders to make way , set spurs , passed the place from which he was to fire at a gallop , and , as he passed , threw up the reins , turned sideways upon his saddle , 36 TALES OF MY LANDLORD .
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... Fire - arms will not prevail against him - Strike -thrust with the cold iron ! -put him out of pain - put him out of pain , were it but for the sake of his grey hairs . " Much alarmed at the import of these expressions , which seemed to ...
... Fire - arms will not prevail against him - Strike -thrust with the cold iron ! -put him out of pain - put him out of pain , were it but for the sake of his grey hairs . " Much alarmed at the import of these expressions , which seemed to ...
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... fire - just as they did wi ' auld deaf John Macbriar , that never understood a single question they pat till him , and sae lost his life for lack o ' hearing . " " Jenny , " said the young lady , " 94 TALES OF MY LANDLORD .
... fire - just as they did wi ' auld deaf John Macbriar , that never understood a single question they pat till him , and sae lost his life for lack o ' hearing . " " Jenny , " said the young lady , " 94 TALES OF MY LANDLORD .
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Términos y frases comunes
Ailie answered Morton arms army auld blood body Bothwell Burley called Cameronians canna carabines Castle cause Claverhouse Colonel Grahame command Cornet council Covenant Covenanters Cuddie death dinna dragoons Duke Duke of Monmouth e'en enemy eneugh Erastian Evandale's exclaimed eyes favour fear followed frae gentleman gude Halliday hand hath head hear heard heart Henry Morton hinny honour horse insurgents Jenny Dennison John Gudyill Kettledrummle King Lady Margaret Bellenden leddy look Lord Evandale Macbriar mair Major Bellenden maun Mause Milnwood Miss Bellenden mither moderate party morning muckle never occasion Old Mortality onything ower party person popinjay Poundtext presbyterian prisoner puir replied Morton roundhead Scotland seemed Sergeant soldiers speak suld sword thae thee thou Tillietudlem Tower troopers turned voice weel whig woman word ye'll young
Pasajes populares
Página 251 - 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 159 - 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 306 - 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 159 - But thus saith the LORD, 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.
Página 265 - 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 188 - 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 267 - When I think of death, Mr Morton, as a thing worth thinking of, it is in the hope of pressing one day some well-fought and hard-won field of battle, and dying with the shout of victory in my ear— that would be worth dying for, and more, it would be worth having lived for...
Página 67 - Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of music...
Página 250 - Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods...
Página 68 - 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 sheeling-hill.