Waverley novels. Parker's ed., revised, Volúmenes9-10 |
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Página 168
... insurgents had been attacked in this glen by a small de- tachment of the King's troops , and three or four either killed in the skirmish , or shot after being made prisoners , as rebels taken with arms in their hands . The peasan- try ...
... insurgents had been attacked in this glen by a small de- tachment of the King's troops , and three or four either killed in the skirmish , or shot after being made prisoners , as rebels taken with arms in their hands . The peasan- try ...
Página 303
... insurgents will be dispersed rather by fear than force , and that Lord Evandale will speedily return to be what he must always be , the dear and valued friend of all in this castle . " " Of all , " he repeated , with a melancholy ...
... insurgents will be dispersed rather by fear than force , and that Lord Evandale will speedily return to be what he must always be , the dear and valued friend of all in this castle . " " Of all , " he repeated , with a melancholy ...
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... insurgent presbyterians were reported to be in arms . They had not prosecuted their march a quarter of a mile ere Claverhouse and Evan- dale galloped past them , followed by their orderly - men , in order to take their proper places in ...
... insurgent presbyterians were reported to be in arms . They had not prosecuted their march a quarter of a mile ere Claverhouse and Evan- dale galloped past them , followed by their orderly - men , in order to take their proper places in ...
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... insurgent army which seemed to be in motion . All the others stood firm and motionless , as the grey stones that lay scattered on the heath around them . The total number of the insurgents might amount to about a thousand men ; but of ...
... insurgent army which seemed to be in motion . All the others stood firm and motionless , as the grey stones that lay scattered on the heath around them . The total number of the insurgents might amount to about a thousand men ; but of ...
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... insurgents to fight to the uttermost . As the horsemen halted their lines on the ridge of the hill , their trumpets and kettle - drums sounded a bold and warlike flourish of menace and defiance , that rang along the waste like the ...
... insurgents to fight to the uttermost . As the horsemen halted their lines on the ridge of the hill , their trumpets and kettle - drums sounded a bold and warlike flourish of menace and defiance , that rang along the waste like the ...
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answered arms auld Balfour blood body Bothwell Burley called canna Castle cause Claverhouse Colonel Grahame command Cornet Covenant Covenanters Cuddie dinna door dragoons Duke of Monmouth Dwarf e'en Earnscliff Edith Ellieslaw Elliot Elshie enemy Erastian Evandale's exclaimed eyes father favour fear followed frae gentleman gude Gudyill Halliday hand head hear heard heart Henry Morton hinny Hobbie honour horse Ilderton insurgents Isabella Jenny Kettledrummle Lady Margaret leddy look Lord Evandale Macbriar mair Major Bellenden Mareschal maun Mause Milnwood misanthropy Miss Bellenden Miss Vere morning mother muckle never Old Mortality onything ower party person popinjay Poundtext presbyterian prisoner puir Ratcliffe replied Morton Scotland seemed Sir Frederick soldiers speak sword thae thee there's thou Tillietudlem tion Tower voice weel Westburnflat whig woman word ye'll young
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Página 167 - Whate'er he did was done with so much ease, In him alone 'twas natural to please : His motions all accompanied with grace ; And paradise was open'd in his face.
Página 196 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Página 54 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Página 48 - Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered : for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children. 26 And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh ; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine : and all flesh shall know that 1 the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
Página 20 - Ziou is his seat. There arrows of the bow he brake, The shield, the sword, the war, More glorious thou than hills of prey, More excellent art far.
Página 15 - To save the expense of Christian blood, And try if we, by mediation Of treaty, and accommodation, » Can end the quarrel, and compose This bloody duel without blows.
Página 166 - ... to soften obstinacy; and whose very powers of intellect have been confounded by hearing the same dull lesson repeated a hundred times by rote, and only varied by the various blunders of the reciters. Even the flowers of classic genius, with which his solitary fancy is most gratified...
Página 180 - ... in rotation, at the distance of sixty or seventy paces. He whose ball brought down the mark, held the proud title of Captain of the Popinjay for the remainder of the day, and was usually escorted in triumph to the most reputable change-house in the neighbourhood, where the evening was closed with conviviality, conducted under his auspices, and, if he was able to sustain it, at his expense.
Página 177 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Página 232 - Your leddyship and the steward hae been pleased to propose that my son Cuddie suld work in the barn wi' a new-fangled machine * for dighting the corn frae the chaff, thus impiously thwarting the will of Divine Providence, by raising wind for your leddyship's ain particular use by human art, instead of soliciting it by prayer, or waiting patiently for whatever dispensation of wind Providence was pleased to send upon the sheelingliill.