Waverley Novels, Հատոր 35R. Cadell, 1832 |
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... once determined on - qualities which , if he had succeeded in his bold attempt , gave the nation little room to hope that he would have been found free from the love of prerogative and desire of arbitrary power , which characterised his ...
... once determined on - qualities which , if he had succeeded in his bold attempt , gave the nation little room to hope that he would have been found free from the love of prerogative and desire of arbitrary power , which characterised his ...
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... once shook itself over Britain with such terrific glare , and at last sunk in its own ashes , scarce remembered and scarce noted . Meantime , while the life of Charles Edward was gradually wasting in disappointed solitude , the number ...
... once shook itself over Britain with such terrific glare , and at last sunk in its own ashes , scarce remembered and scarce noted . Meantime , while the life of Charles Edward was gradually wasting in disappointed solitude , the number ...
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... once more . If I became the pride of the Yards , and the dread of the hucksters in the High - School Wynd , it was under thy pa- tronage ; and , but for thee , I had been contented with humbly passing through the Cowgate - Port ...
... once more . If I became the pride of the Yards , and the dread of the hucksters in the High - School Wynd , it was under thy pa- tronage ; and , but for thee , I had been contented with humbly passing through the Cowgate - Port ...
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... isle of Feroe , in what was to all ordinary eyes a mere horsepond . Besides , did I not once find thee gazing with respect at a lizard , in the attitude of one who looks upon a cro- codile ? Now this is , doubtless , so far. 28 REDGAUNTLET ...
... isle of Feroe , in what was to all ordinary eyes a mere horsepond . Besides , did I not once find thee gazing with respect at a lizard , in the attitude of one who looks upon a cro- codile ? Now this is , doubtless , so far. 28 REDGAUNTLET ...
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... once more close to my side , he and his sable horse looming gigantic in the now darkening twilight . " Are you mad ? " he said , in the same deep tone which had before thrilled on my ear , " or are you weary of your life ? —You will be ...
... once more close to my side , he and his sable horse looming gigantic in the now darkening twilight . " Are you mad ? " he said , in the same deep tone which had before thrilled on my ear , " or are you weary of your life ? —You will be ...
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Էջ 189 - You told me he had not given you one." "Will your honour please to see if that bit line is right?" Sir John looked at every line, and at every letter, with much attention ; and at last, at the date, which my gudesire had not observed, — "From my appointed place," he read, "this twenty-fifth of November.
Էջ 181 - In hell, if you will have my thoughts of it,' said my gudesire, driven to extremity — 'in hell! with your father, his jackanape, and his silver whistle.' Down the stairs he ran (for the parlour was nae place for him after such a word), and he heard the Laird swearing blood and wounds behind him, as fast as ever did Sir Robert, and roaring for the bailie and the baron-officer. Away rode my gudesire to his chief creditor, (him they...
Էջ xi - ... hazard a journey to England at this juncture. The impatience of his friends who were in exile, had formed a scheme which was impracticable; but although it had been as feasible as they had represented it to him, yet no preparation had been made, nor was any thing ready to carry it into execution.
Էջ 169 - And so he became a Tory, as they ca' it, which we now ca' Jacobites, just out of a kind of needcessity, that he might belang to some side or other. He had nae...
Էջ 173 - Robert girned wi' pain, the jackanape girned too, like a sheep's-head between a pair of tangs — an ill-faur'd, fearsome couple they were. The laird's buff-coat was hung on a pin behind him, and his broadsword and his pistols within reach; for he keepit up the auld fashion of having the weapons ready, and a horse saddled day and night, just as he used to do when he was able to loup on horseback, and away after ony of the hill-folk he could get speerings of. Some said it was for fear of the Whigs...
Էջ 174 - ... he banged ; but as he ran, the shrieks came faint and fainter ; there was a deep-drawn shivering groan, and word gaed through the Castle, that the Laird was dead. Weel, away came my gudesire, wi...
Էջ 184 - He knocked at the ha' door just as he was wont, and his auld acquaintance, Dougal MacCallum, just after his wont, too, came to open the door, and said, "Piper Steenie, are ye there, lad? Sir Robert has been crying for you.
Էջ 176 - ... answer, raised the house, when Dougal was found lying dead within twa steps of the bed where his master's coffin was placed.
Էջ 172 - ... naebody but the Laird, Dougal MacCallum, and the Major, a thing that hadna chanced to him before. Sir Robert sat, or, I should say, lay, in a great armed chair, wi' his grand velvet gown, and his feet on a cradle ; for he had baith gout and gravel, and his face looked as gash and ghastly as Satan's. Major Weir sat opposite to him, in a red laced coat, and the Laird's wig on his head; and aye as Sir Robert girned wi' pain, the jackanape girned too, like a sheep's-head between a pair of tangs —...
Էջ 171 - Laird wasna pleased. And he was sic an awsome body, that naebody cared to anger him ; for the oaths he swore, and the rage that he used to get into, and the looks that he put on, made men sometimes think him a devil incarnate. Weel, my gudesire was nae manager — no that he was a very great misguider — but he hadna the saving gift, and he got twa terms' rent in arrear. He got the first brash at Whitsunday put ower wi...