The Handy Volume "Waverly" ...: A legend of Montrose, &cBradbury, Agnew, 1877 |
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... seemed therefore as fair as it was desirable . The celebrated Sir Henry Vane , one of the commis- sioners who negotiated the alliance betwixt England and Scotland , saw the influence which this bait had upon the spirits of those with ...
... seemed therefore as fair as it was desirable . The celebrated Sir Henry Vane , one of the commis- sioners who negotiated the alliance betwixt England and Scotland , saw the influence which this bait had upon the spirits of those with ...
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... seemed to succeed to their very wish . The junction of the Scottish army with those of Fairfax and Manchester , enabled the Parliamentary forces to besiege York , and to fight the desperate action of Long - Marston Moor , in which ...
... seemed to succeed to their very wish . The junction of the Scottish army with those of Fairfax and Manchester , enabled the Parliamentary forces to besiege York , and to fight the desperate action of Long - Marston Moor , in which ...
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... seemed earnestly to converse with them , probably because the distinctions of rank are readily set aside among those who are made to be sharers of common danger . The dispositions of the leading men who inhabited this wild country , and ...
... seemed earnestly to converse with them , probably because the distinctions of rank are readily set aside among those who are made to be sharers of common danger . The dispositions of the leading men who inhabited this wild country , and ...
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... seemed inclined to interrupt his passage . The leader of the party was , indeed , well mounted and clad in a buff coat , richly embroidered , the half- military dress of the period ; but his domestics had only coarse jackets of thick ...
... seemed inclined to interrupt his passage . The leader of the party was , indeed , well mounted and clad in a buff coat , richly embroidered , the half- military dress of the period ; but his domestics had only coarse jackets of thick ...
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... seemed buried in pro- found abstraction . His dark eyes and wild and enthu- siastic features , bore the air of one who , deeply impressed with his own subjects of meditation , pays little attention to exterior objects . An air of gloomy ...
... seemed buried in pro- found abstraction . His dark eyes and wild and enthu- siastic features , bore the air of one who , deeply impressed with his own subjects of meditation , pays little attention to exterior objects . An air of gloomy ...
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