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... muckle better this morning . The finger of Heaven , " she said , " was in it , and her bairn should gang on nae sic errands . " Pains , penalties , and threats of dismission , were denounced in vain ; the mother was obstinate , and ...
... muckle better this morning . The finger of Heaven , " she said , " was in it , and her bairn should gang on nae sic errands . " Pains , penalties , and threats of dismission , were denounced in vain ; the mother was obstinate , and ...
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... muckle . Your mither - rest her saul ! -could pit up wi ' as muckle as maist women- -but aff hands is fair play ; and if onybody be uncivil , ye may gie me a cry.— Aweel , when the malt be- gins to get aboon the meal , they'll begin to ...
... muckle . Your mither - rest her saul ! -could pit up wi ' as muckle as maist women- -but aff hands is fair play ; and if onybody be uncivil , ye may gie me a cry.— Aweel , when the malt be- gins to get aboon the meal , they'll begin to ...
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... muckle pouther as wad hae shot a ' the wild - fowl that we'll want atween and Candlemas- and then ganging majoring to the piper's Howff wi ' a ' the idle loons in the country , and sitting there birling , at your poor uncle's cost , nae ...
... muckle pouther as wad hae shot a ' the wild - fowl that we'll want atween and Candlemas- and then ganging majoring to the piper's Howff wi ' a ' the idle loons in the country , and sitting there birling , at your poor uncle's cost , nae ...
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... Muckle gude may it do ye , my bonny man ! I trow ye dinna get sic a skirl - in - the - pan as that at Niel Blane's . His wife was a canny body , and could dress things very weel for ane in her line o ' business , but no like a ...
... Muckle gude may it do ye , my bonny man ! I trow ye dinna get sic a skirl - in - the - pan as that at Niel Blane's . His wife was a canny body , and could dress things very weel for ane in her line o ' business , but no like a ...
Página 69
... muckle doctrine about it ? It's clean beyond my comprehension a'thegither . I see nae sae muckle difference atween the twa ways o't as a ' the folk pre- tend . It's very true the curates read aye the same words ower again ; and if they ...
... muckle doctrine about it ? It's clean beyond my comprehension a'thegither . I see nae sae muckle difference atween the twa ways o't as a ' the folk pre- tend . It's very true the curates read aye the same words ower again ; and if they ...
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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.