Tales of My Landlord,: The black dwarfWilliam Blackwood, Prince's Street: and John Murray, Albemarle Street, London., 1816 - 347 páginas |
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... night . And it must be acknowledged by the most sceptical , that I , who have sat in the leathern arm - chair , on the left- hand side of the fire , in the common room of the Wallace Inn , winter and summer , for every evening in my ...
... night . And it must be acknowledged by the most sceptical , that I , who have sat in the leathern arm - chair , on the left- hand side of the fire , in the common room of the Wallace Inn , winter and summer , for every evening in my ...
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... night be fore , and the ground remained covered with a dazzling mantle of six inches in- depth ) when two horsemen rode up to the Wallace Inn . The first was a strong , tall , powerful man , in a grey riding - coat , ha- VOL I. B ving a ...
... night be fore , and the ground remained covered with a dazzling mantle of six inches in- depth ) when two horsemen rode up to the Wallace Inn . The first was a strong , tall , powerful man , in a grey riding - coat , ha- VOL I. B ving a ...
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... night began to close upon him . This would have been a circum- stance of great indifference to the expe- rienced sportsman , who could have walked blindfold over every inch of his native heaths , had it not happened near a spot , which ...
... night began to close upon him . This would have been a circum- stance of great indifference to the expe- rienced sportsman , who could have walked blindfold over every inch of his native heaths , had it not happened near a spot , which ...
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... night - fall , by all human beings , as being the ordinary resort of kelpies , spunkies , and other de- mons , once the companions of the witches ' diabolical revels , and now continuing to rendezvous upon the same spot , as if still in ...
... night - fall , by all human beings , as being the ordinary resort of kelpies , spunkies , and other de- mons , once the companions of the witches ' diabolical revels , and now continuing to rendezvous upon the same spot , as if still in ...
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... night ? " - a voice re- plied , whose shrill , uncouth , and disso- nant tones made Elliot step two paces back , and startled even his companion , " Pass on your way , and ask nought at them that ask nought at you . " " What do you do ...
... night ? " - a voice re- plied , whose shrill , uncouth , and disso- nant tones made Elliot step two paces back , and startled even his companion , " Pass on your way , and ask nought at them that ask nought at you . " " What do you do ...
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Página 119 - Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us, that are squires of the night's body, be called thieves of the day's beauty : let us be — Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon : And let men say, we be men of good government; being governed as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we — steal.
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