WaverleySanborn, Carter and Bazin, 1855 |
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... once to the tale which I had actually commenced , and accident at length threw the lost sheets in my way . I happened to want some fishing - tackle for the use of a guest , when it occurred to me to search the old writing - desk already ...
... once to the tale which I had actually commenced , and accident at length threw the lost sheets in my way . I happened to want some fishing - tackle for the use of a guest , when it occurred to me to search the old writing - desk already ...
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... once ; the purchaser only stipulating that he should always come by night , and alone . I do not know whether it was from mere curiosity , or whether some hope of gain mixed with it , but after Dick had sold several horses in this way ...
... once ; the purchaser only stipulating that he should always come by night , and alone . I do not know whether it was from mere curiosity , or whether some hope of gain mixed with it , but after Dick had sold several horses in this way ...
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... once a king , and he wedded a young old queen , and she had a child ; and this child was sent to Solomon the Sage , praying he would give it the same blessing which he got from the witch of Endor when she bit him by the heel . Hereof ...
... once a king , and he wedded a young old queen , and she had a child ; and this child was sent to Solomon the Sage , praying he would give it the same blessing which he got from the witch of Endor when she bit him by the heel . Hereof ...
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... once , and Ajax , of the Crosscauseway . He was too for- midable to us not to have a cognomen , and , like that of a knight of old , it was taken from the most remarkable part of his dress , being a pair of old green livery breeches ...
... once , and Ajax , of the Crosscauseway . He was too for- midable to us not to have a cognomen , and , like that of a knight of old , it was taken from the most remarkable part of his dress , being a pair of old green livery breeches ...
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... once more before he died . " In fact , on that memorable occasion , when the capital of Scotland was menaced by three trifling sloops or brigs , scarce fit to have sacked a fishing village , he was the only man who seemed to propose a ...
... once more before he died . " In fact , on that memorable occasion , when the capital of Scotland was menaced by three trifling sloops or brigs , scarce fit to have sacked a fishing village , he was the only man who seemed to propose a ...
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ancient answered appeared arms army attended Baillie Balmawhapple Baron of Bradwardine brother caliga called Captain Waverley castle CHAPTER character Chevalier Chief Chieftain clan Colonel Talbot command dear Donald Bean Lean dress Edinburgh Emma Darcy English Evan Dhu eyes father favour feelings Fergus Mac-Ivor Fergus's Flora frae Gay Bowers gentleman Gilfillan glen Glennaquoich hand head heard hero Highland honour hope horse house of Stuart inclosures Jacobites Lady Laird look Lord Lord George Murray Lowland Macwheeble Major Melville manner military mind Miss Bradwardine Miss Mac-Ivor morning never night observed occasion officer party passed person Perthshire plaid poor portmanteau present Prince prisoner received regiment rendered replied romantic Rose Bradwardine scene Scotland Scottish seemed Sir Everard sister soldiers spirit Spontoon sword thought tion Tully-Veolan verley Vich Ian Vohr Waverley-Honour Waverley's whig wish young
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Página 33 - Springlets in the dawn are steaming, 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
Página 33 - ... gainst the oak his antlers frayed ; You shall see him brought to bay, ' Waken, lords and ladies gay.' Louder, louder chant the lay, Waken, lords and ladies gay...
Página 198 - My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here ; My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer; Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe, My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go.
Página 124 - 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 79 - 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 ?" " I believe not,
Página 4 - Waverley, a Tale of other Days," must not every novel reader have anticipated a castle scarce less than that of Udolpho, of which the eastern wing had long been uninhabited, and the keys either lost, or consigned to the care of some aged butler or housekeeper, whose trembling steps, about the middle...
Página 243 - Events of this kind pass in less time than the description of them can be written, or than it can be read. The Colonel was for a few moments supported by his men. and particularly by that worthy person...
Página 207 - 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 France, and no to trouble King George's government again, that ony...
Página 7 - Thus, though 1 sometimes, among other literary avocations, turned my thoughts to the continuation of the romance which I had commenced, yet as I could not find what I had already written, after searching such repositories as were within my reach, and was too indolent to attempt to write it anew from memory, I as often laid aside all thoughts of that nature.
Página 7 - ... who were, like most veterans, easily induced to fight their battles over again for the benefit of a willing listener like myself. It naturally occurred to me that the ancient traditions and high spirit of a people who, living in a...