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Página 23
... insurgents had been attacked in this glen by a small detachment of the King's troops , and three or four either killed in the skirmish , or shot after being made prisoners , as rebels taken with arms in their hands . The peasantry ...
... insurgents had been attacked in this glen by a small detachment of the King's troops , and three or four either killed in the skirmish , or shot after being made prisoners , as rebels taken with arms in their hands . The peasantry ...
Página 117
... insurgents will be dispersed rather by fear than force , and that Lord Evandale will speedily return to be what he must always be , the dear and valued friend of all in this castle . " " Of all , " he repeated , with a melancholy ...
... insurgents will be dispersed rather by fear than force , and that Lord Evandale will speedily return to be what he must always be , the dear and valued friend of all in this castle . " " Of all , " he repeated , with a melancholy ...
Página 128
... insurgent presby- terians were reported to be in arms . They had not prosecuted their march a quarter of a mile ere Claverhouse and Evandale galloped past them , followed by their orderly - men , in order to take their proper places in ...
... insurgent presby- terians were reported to be in arms . They had not prosecuted their march a quarter of a mile ere Claverhouse and Evandale galloped past them , followed by their orderly - men , in order to take their proper places in ...
Página 139
... insurgent army which seemed to be in motion . All the others stood firm and motionless , as the grey stones that lay scattered on the heath around them . The total number of the insurgents might amount to about a thousand men ; but of ...
... insurgent army which seemed to be in motion . All the others stood firm and motionless , as the grey stones that lay scattered on the heath around them . The total number of the insurgents might amount to about a thousand men ; but of ...
Página 140
... insurgents to fight to the uttermost . As the horsemen halted their lines on the ridge of the hill , their trumpets and kettle - drums sounded a bold and warlike flou- rish of menace and defiance , that rang along the waste like the ...
... insurgents to fight to the uttermost . As the horsemen halted their lines on the ridge of the hill , their trumpets and kettle - drums sounded a bold and warlike flou- rish of menace and defiance , that rang along the waste like the ...
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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
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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.