The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations, Volumen2Conner & Cooke, 1833 |
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... side of the thicket , in which , by the report of Drawslot , he had harboured all night . The horsemen spreading themselves along the side of the cover , waited until the keeper entered , leading his ban - dog , a large blood - hound ...
... side of the thicket , in which , by the report of Drawslot , he had harboured all night . The horsemen spreading themselves along the side of the cover , waited until the keeper entered , leading his ban - dog , a large blood - hound ...
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... side but one , it were worse shame to be idle than to be on the worst side , though blacker than usurpation could make it . As for Aunt Rachel , her scheme had not exactly terminated according to her wishes , but she was under the ...
... side but one , it were worse shame to be idle than to be on the worst side , though blacker than usurpation could make it . As for Aunt Rachel , her scheme had not exactly terminated according to her wishes , but she was under the ...
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... side of the enclosure . It had been built at a period meditations by the occasional caprioles which his when castles were no longer necessary , and when the charger exhibited at the reiterated assaults of those Scottish architects had ...
... side of the enclosure . It had been built at a period meditations by the occasional caprioles which his when castles were no longer necessary , and when the charger exhibited at the reiterated assaults of those Scottish architects had ...
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... side ; and anon he slapped them swiftly and re- When ' gan he loudly through the house to call , peatedly across his breast , like the substitute used by But no man cared to answer to his cry ; a hackney - coachman for his usual ...
... side ; and anon he slapped them swiftly and re- When ' gan he loudly through the house to call , peatedly across his breast , like the substitute used by But no man cared to answer to his cry ; a hackney - coachman for his usual ...
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... sides , and Evan , looking at Waverley , cave from the other side ; so that , unless the retreat had said something in Gaelic to Alice , which made had been sought for with boats , or disclosed by trea- her laugh , yet colour up to her ...
... sides , and Evan , looking at Waverley , cave from the other side ; so that , unless the retreat had said something in Gaelic to Alice , which made had been sought for with boats , or disclosed by trea- her laugh , yet colour up to her ...
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Página 31 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Página 75 - A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason ; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Página 18 - ... bields, to sleep with the tod and the blackcock in the muirs ! — Ride your ways, Ellangowan, — Our bairns are hinging at our weary backs — look that your braw cradle at hame be the fairer spread up : not that I am wishing ill to little Harry, or to the babe that's yet to be born — God forbid, and make them kind to the poor, and better folk than their father ! — And now, ride e'en your ways ; for these are the last words ye'll ever hear Meg Merrilies speak, and this is the last reise...
Página 19 - ... those passions common to men in all stages of society, and which have alike agitated the human heart, whether it throbbed under the steel corslet of the fifteenth century, the brocaded coat of the eighteenth, or the blue frock and white dimity waistcoat of the present day.
Página 14 - Deprived of the view of the beacon on which they had relied, they now experienced the double agony of terror and suspense. They struggled forward, however; but, when they arrived at the point from which they ought to have seen the crag, it was no longer visible. The signal of safety was lost among a thousand white breakers, which, dashing upon the point of the promontory, rose in prodigious sheets of snowy foam as high as the mast of a first-rate man-of-war against the dark brow of the precipice....
Página 14 - It was indeed a dreadful evening. The howling of the storm mingled with the shrieks of the seafowl, and sounded like the dirge of the three devoted beings who, pent between two of the most magnificent yet most dreadful objects of nature, — a raging tide and an insurmountable precipice, — toiled along their painful and dangerous path, often lashed by the spray of some giant billow, which threw itself higher on the beach than those that had preceded it Each minute did their enemy gain ground perceptibly...
Página 143 - But the change, though steadily and rapidly progressive, has nevertheless been gradual; and, like those who drift down the stream of a deep and smooth river, we are not aware of the progress we have made until we fix our eye on the now distant point from which we have been drifted.
Página 136 - Saxon gentlemen are laughing," he said, "because a poor man, such as me, thinks my life, or the life of six of my degree, is worth that of Vich Ian Vohr, it's like enough they may be very right ; but if they laugh because they think I would not keep my word and come back to redeem him, I can tell them they ken neither the heart of a Hielandman, nor the honour of a gentleman.
Página 136 - There was a murmur of compassion among the spectators, from the idea that the poor fellow intended to plead the influence of his superior as an excuse for his crime. The judge commanded silence, and encouraged Evan to proceed. " I was only ganging to say, my lord," said Evan, in what he meant to be an insinuating manner, " that if your excellent Honour and the honourable court would let Vich Ian Vohr go free just this once, and let him gae back to Prance, and no to trouble King George's government...
Página 13 - Following the windings of the beach, they passed one projecting point, or head-land of rock, after another, and now found themselves under a huge and continued extent of the precipices by which that iron-bound coast is in most places defended. Long projecting reefs of rock, extending under water, and only evincing their existence by here and there a peak entirely bare, or by the breakers which foamed over those that were partially covered, rendered Knockwinnock Bay dreaded by pilots and ship-masters....