The Handy Volume "Waverly" ...: A legend of Montrose, &cBradbury, Agnew, 1877 |
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... horse , rode slowly up one of those steep passes by which the Highlands are accessible from the Lowlands of Perthshire . Their course had lain for some time along the banks of a lake , whose deep waters reflected the crimson beams of ...
... horse , rode slowly up one of those steep passes by which the Highlands are accessible from the Lowlands of Perthshire . Their course had lain for some time along the banks of a lake , whose deep waters reflected the crimson beams of ...
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... horse , and advanced with great deliberation ; so that each party had an opportunity to take a full survey of the other . The solitary stranger was mounted upon an able horse , fit for military service , and for the great weight which ...
... horse , and advanced with great deliberation ; so that each party had an opportunity to take a full survey of the other . The solitary stranger was mounted upon an able horse , fit for military service , and for the great weight which ...
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... horse ) were to find lodgments . " " " " ' May I be permitted to ask , then , " said Lord Men- teith , " to whom I have the good fortune to stand quarter - master ? " " Truly , my lord , " said the trooper , " my name is Dalgetty ...
... horse ) were to find lodgments . " " " " ' May I be permitted to ask , then , " said Lord Men- teith , " to whom I have the good fortune to stand quarter - master ? " " Truly , my lord , " said the trooper , " my name is Dalgetty ...
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... Horse , and thereafter I arose to be lieutenant and ritt - master , under that invin- cible monarch , the bulwark of the Protestant faith , the Lion of the North , the terror of Austria , Gustavus the Victorious . " " " ' And yet , if I ...
... Horse , and thereafter I arose to be lieutenant and ritt - master , under that invin- cible monarch , the bulwark of the Protestant faith , the Lion of the North , the terror of Austria , Gustavus the Victorious . " " " ' And yet , if I ...
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... horse , held a moment's private con- versation with his domestics . The Captain , who now led the van of the party , after about a quarter of a mile's slow and toilsome advance up a broken and rugged ascent , emerged into an upland ...
... horse , held a moment's private con- versation with his domestics . The Captain , who now led the van of the party , after about a quarter of a mile's slow and toilsome advance up a broken and rugged ascent , emerged into an upland ...
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