Waverley Novels ...: WaverleyBlack, 1853 |
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... Rose , the Potter's daughter , that it was thought it would be the Jester's own fault if Jack was long without his Jill . Much pithy matter , concerning the bringing the bride to bed - the loosing the bridegroom's points- the scramble ...
... Rose , the Potter's daughter , that it was thought it would be the Jester's own fault if Jack was long without his Jill . Much pithy matter , concerning the bringing the bride to bed - the loosing the bridegroom's points- the scramble ...
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... rose in the army with a rapidity far surpassing the usual pace of unpatronized professional merit , although , to outward appearance , that was all he had to depend upon . The shock which Sir Everard encountered upon this occasion ...
... rose in the army with a rapidity far surpassing the usual pace of unpatronized professional merit , although , to outward appearance , that was all he had to depend upon . The shock which Sir Everard encountered upon this occasion ...
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... Rose who dared to maintain her cause , carried on a harassing and predatory warfare , till the strong- hold was reduced by the celebrated Richard of Gloucester . Here , too , a party of cavaliers long maintained themselves under Nigel ...
... Rose who dared to maintain her cause , carried on a harassing and predatory warfare , till the strong- hold was reduced by the celebrated Richard of Gloucester . Here , too , a party of cavaliers long maintained themselves under Nigel ...
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... rose- -snug - I keep no holes here even for a Hanoverian rat to hide in . And , what— eh ! any good news from our friends over the water ? -and how does the worthy King of France ? -Or perhaps you are more lately from Rome ? it must be ...
... rose- -snug - I keep no holes here even for a Hanoverian rat to hide in . And , what— eh ! any good news from our friends over the water ? -and how does the worthy King of France ? -Or perhaps you are more lately from Rome ? it must be ...
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... rose to such huge height , and flourished so luxuriantly , that their boughs completely over - arched the broad road beneath . Beyond these venerable ranks , and running parallel to them , were two high walls , of apparently the like ...
... rose to such huge height , and flourished so luxuriantly , that their boughs completely over - arched the broad road beneath . Beyond these venerable ranks , and running parallel to them , were two high walls , of apparently the like ...
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Términos y frases comunes
ancient answered appeared arms army attended Balmawhapple Baron of Bradwardine broadsword brother caliga called Callum Beg Captain Waverley castle Caterans CHAPTER character Chevalier Chief Chieftain clan Colonel Talbot command dear Donald Bean Lean Edinburgh Edward Waverley English Evan Dhu eyes father favour feelings Fergus Mac-Ivor Fergus's Flora Gay Bowers Gellatley gentleman Gilfillan Glennaquoich hand head heard hero Highland honour hope horse house of Stewart Jacobite Lady Laird look Lord Lord George Murray louis-d'or Lowland Major Melville manner military mind Miss Bradwardine Miss Mac-Ivor morning never night observed occasion officer party passed person Perthshire plaid portmanteau present Prince prisoner received regiment rendered replied returned romantic Rose Bradwardine Scotland Scottish seemed shewed Sir Everard sister soldiers spirit Spontoon supposed sword thought tion Titus Livius Tully-Veolan Vich Ian Vohr Waverley-Honour Waverley's Whig wish young
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Página 34 - To track the buck in thicket green; Now we come to chant our lay * Waken, lords and ladies gay.' Waken, lords and ladies gay, To the greenwood haste away; We can show you where he lies, Fleet of foot and tall of size; We can show the marks he made When 'gainst the oak his antlers fray'd; You shall see him brought to bay;
Página 324 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
Página 57 - I have, therefore, like a maiden knight with his white shield, assumed for my hero, WAVERLEY, an uncontaminated name, bearing with its sound little of good or evil, excepting what the reader shall hereafter be pleased to affix to it.
Página 193 - My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer, A-chasing the wild deer and following the roe — My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go!
Página 380 - I'll fetch them up to ye mysell, to head or hang, and you may begin wi' me the very first man." Notwithstanding the solemnity of the occasion, a sort of laugh was heard in the court at the extraordinary nature of the proposal. The Judge checked this indecency, and Evan, looking sternly around, when the murmur abated, " If the 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...
Página 402 - ... patriarchal power of the Highland chiefs, — the abolition of the heritable jurisdictions of the Lowland nobility and barons, — the total eradication of the Jacobite party, which, averse to intermingle with the English, or adopt their customs, long continued to pride themselves upon maintaining ancient Scottish manners and customs, — commenced this innovation.
Página 109 - Hie away, hie away, Over bank and over brae, Where the copsewood is the greenest, Where the fountains glisten sheenest, Where the lady-fern grows strongest, Where the morning dew lies longest, Where the black-cock sweetest sips it, Where the fairy latest trips it. Hie to haunts right seldom seen, Lovely, lonesome, cool, and green, Over bank and over brae, Hie away, hie away. 'Do the verses he sings,' asked Waverley, 'belong to old Scottish poetry, Miss Bradwardine?
Página 410 - I myself," says the traveller, Fynes Morrison, in the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, the scene being the Lowlands of Scotland, " was at a knight's house, who had many servants to attend him, that brought in his meat with their heads covered with blue caps, the table being more than half furnished with great platters of porridge, each having a little piece of sodden meat. And when the table was served, the servants did sit down with us ; but the upper mess, instead of porridge, had a pullet, with...
Página 406 - He thought he saw an unusual blaze of light fall upon the book while he was reading, which he at first imagined might happen by some accident in the candle ; but, lifting up his eyes, he apprehended, to his extreme amazement, that there was before him, as it were suspended in the air, a visible representation of the Lord Jesus Christ upon the cross, surrounded on all sides with a glory...
Página 34 - Diamonds on the brake are gleaming, And foresters have busy been To track the buck in thicket green; Now we come to chant our lay,