Waverley Novels: The fair maid of PerthReprint Services Corporation, 1903 |
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... blood upon the floor . These are the stains , ' she said ; ' nothing will remove them from the place - there they have been for two hundred and fifty years - and there they will remain while the floor is left standing— neither water nor ...
... blood upon the floor . These are the stains , ' she said ; ' nothing will remove them from the place - there they have been for two hundred and fifty years - and there they will remain while the floor is left standing— neither water nor ...
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... blood - boltered , like Banquo's ghost , when to remove them would have cost but a hundred drops of the Infallible Detergent Elixir , prepared and sold by Messrs . Scrub and Rub , in five shilling and ten shilling bottles , each bottle ...
... blood - boltered , like Banquo's ghost , when to remove them would have cost but a hundred drops of the Infallible Detergent Elixir , prepared and sold by Messrs . Scrub and Rub , in five shilling and ten shilling bottles , each bottle ...
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... blood of Rizzio , I take up the gauntlet , and main- tain against all and sundry , that I hold the stains to be of no modern date , but to have been actually the consequence and the record of that terrible assassination . ' ' As I ...
... blood of Rizzio , I take up the gauntlet , and main- tain against all and sundry , that I hold the stains to be of no modern date , but to have been actually the consequence and the record of that terrible assassination . ' ' As I ...
Էջ 10
... blood was spilled , and there the marks of it are still shown . It is reported further by historians , that Mary con- tinued her entreaties for his life , mingling her prayers with screams and exclamations , until she knew that he was ...
... blood was spilled , and there the marks of it are still shown . It is reported further by historians , that Mary con- tinued her entreaties for his life , mingling her prayers with screams and exclamations , until she knew that he was ...
Էջ 11
... blood - stains would have disappeared in course of time , I apprehend that if measures to efface them were not taken immediately after the affair happened - if the blood , in other words , were allowed to sink into the wood , the stain ...
... blood - stains would have disappeared in course of time , I apprehend that if measures to efface them were not taken immediately after the affair happened - if the blood , in other words , were allowed to sink into the wood , the stain ...
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Էջ 145 - Isabel, I suppose you mean," answered the Smith. "Ay — Isabel, or Jezabel, — all the same, you know. But here comes Bailie Craigdallie at last, with that poor, creeping, cowardly creature the Pottingar.
Էջ 101 - Come into the booth with me, my son, and I will furnish thee with a fitting theme. Thou knowest the maiden who ventures to kiss a sleeping man, wins of him a pair of gloves. Come to my booth ; thou shall have a pair of delicate kid-skin, that will exactly suit her hand and arm. — I was thinking of her poor mother when I shaped them...