The Handy Volume "Waverly" ...: A legend of Montrose, &cBradbury, Agnew, 1877 |
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... seen in Scotland with deep apprehension ; and it was concluded , that should Charles triumph by force of arms against his insurgent subjects of England , he would not be long in exacting from the Scots the vengeance which he might ...
... seen in Scotland with deep apprehension ; and it was concluded , that should Charles triumph by force of arms against his insurgent subjects of England , he would not be long in exacting from the Scots the vengeance which he might ...
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... seen many fields , and brought away in token more than one scar . At the distance of about thirty yards he halted and stood fast , raised himself on his stirrups , as if to reconnoitre and ascertain the purpose of the opposite party ...
... seen many fields , and brought away in token more than one scar . At the distance of about thirty yards he halted and stood fast , raised himself on his stirrups , as if to reconnoitre and ascertain the purpose of the opposite party ...
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... seen in Gallo Belgicus , the Swedish Intelligencer , or if you read High Dutch , in the Fliegenden Mercoeur of Leipsic . My father , my lord , having by unthrifty courses reduced a fair patrimony to a nonentity , I had no better shift ...
... seen in Gallo Belgicus , the Swedish Intelligencer , or if you read High Dutch , in the Fliegenden Mercoeur of Leipsic . My father , my lord , having by unthrifty courses reduced a fair patrimony to a nonentity , I had no better shift ...
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... seen the fields of Leipsic and of Lutzen , may be said to have seen pitched battles . And one who hath witnessed the intaking of Frankfort , and Spanheim , and Nuremberg , and so forth , should know somewhat about leaguers , storms ...
... seen the fields of Leipsic and of Lutzen , may be said to have seen pitched battles . And one who hath witnessed the intaking of Frankfort , and Spanheim , and Nuremberg , and so forth , should know somewhat about leaguers , storms ...
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... seen whole regiments of Dutch and Holsteiners mutiny on the field of battle , like base scullions , crying out , ' Gelt , gelt , ' signifying their desire of pay , instead of falling to blows like our noble Scottish blades , who ever ...
... seen whole regiments of Dutch and Holsteiners mutiny on the field of battle , like base scullions , crying out , ' Gelt , gelt , ' signifying their desire of pay , instead of falling to blows like our noble Scottish blades , who ever ...
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