The Handy Volume "Waverly" ...: A legend of Montrose, &cBradbury, Agnew, 1877 |
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... nature and condition of their army ; headed by a poor and discontented nobility , under whom it was officered chiefly by Scottish soldiers of fortune , who had served in the German wars , until they had lost almost all distinction of ...
... nature and condition of their army ; headed by a poor and discontented nobility , under whom it was officered chiefly by Scottish soldiers of fortune , who had served in the German wars , until they had lost almost all distinction of ...
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... nature of our Highlanders . I will not deny them to be a people stout in body and valiant in heart , and courageous enough in their own wild way of fight- ing , which is as remote from the usages and discipline of war as ever was that ...
... nature of our Highlanders . I will not deny them to be a people stout in body and valiant in heart , and courageous enough in their own wild way of fight- ing , which is as remote from the usages and discipline of war as ever was that ...
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... natural , pretty idea of military matters ; somewhat irregular , though , and smells a little too much of selling the bear's skin before he has hunted him . - I will take the matter , how- ever , into my consideration . " " Do so ...
... natural , pretty idea of military matters ; somewhat irregular , though , and smells a little too much of selling the bear's skin before he has hunted him . - I will take the matter , how- ever , into my consideration . " " Do so ...
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... natural to our age . I can remember his father bewailing his disposition to mine , and alleging , at the same time , that it was impossible for him to take from his wife the company of the boy , as he seemed to be the only conso- Е ...
... natural to our age . I can remember his father bewailing his disposition to mine , and alleging , at the same time , that it was impossible for him to take from his wife the company of the boy , as he seemed to be the only conso- Е ...
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... officers or soldiers , they were good paymasters . - And yet , my lord , if I could but be made certiorate that my natural hereditament of Drumthwacket had fallen into possession of any of these loons 58 A LEGEND OF MONTROSE .
... officers or soldiers , they were good paymasters . - And yet , my lord , if I could but be made certiorate that my natural hereditament of Drumthwacket had fallen into possession of any of these loons 58 A LEGEND OF MONTROSE .
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