Redgauntlet. By the author of 'Waverley'. |
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Side 11
... poor mother was removed -Would to Heaven he was yoked to some tight piece of business , no matter whether well or ill paid , but some job that would hamshackle him at least until the Courts rose , if it were but for decency's sake ...
... poor mother was removed -Would to Heaven he was yoked to some tight piece of business , no matter whether well or ill paid , but some job that would hamshackle him at least until the Courts rose , if it were but for decency's sake ...
Side 13
... Poor Peter Peebles in his usual plenitude of wig and celsitude of hat . He seized on the young pleader like a lion on his prey . " How is a ' wi ' you , Mr Alan -- how is a ' wi ' you , man ? —The awfu ' day is come at last - a day that ...
... Poor Peter Peebles in his usual plenitude of wig and celsitude of hat . He seized on the young pleader like a lion on his prey . " How is a ' wi ' you , Mr Alan -- how is a ' wi ' you , man ? —The awfu ' day is come at last - a day that ...
Side 15
... Poor Peter Peebles , whose shallow brain was altogether un- able to bear the importance of the moment , kept as close to his young counsel as shadow to sub- stance , affected now to speak loud , now to whis- per in his ear , now to deck ...
... Poor Peter Peebles , whose shallow brain was altogether un- able to bear the importance of the moment , kept as close to his young counsel as shadow to sub- stance , affected now to speak loud , now to whis- per in his ear , now to deck ...
Side 17
... Poor Peter , and then cautiously inserting his fore - finger under his bob - wig , in order to rub his temple and aid his invention ; " he is no figure for the fore - bar to see without laughing ; but how to get rid of him ? To speak ...
... Poor Peter , and then cautiously inserting his fore - finger under his bob - wig , in order to rub his temple and aid his invention ; " he is no figure for the fore - bar to see without laughing ; but how to get rid of him ? To speak ...
Side 20
... Poor Peter Peebles v . Plainstanes , per Dumtoustie et Tough : -Maister Da - a - niel Dum- toustie ! " But Dumtoustie answered not the sum- mons , which , deep and swelling as it was , could not reach across the Queensferry ; but our ...
... Poor Peter Peebles v . Plainstanes , per Dumtoustie et Tough : -Maister Da - a - niel Dum- toustie ! " But Dumtoustie answered not the sum- mons , which , deep and swelling as it was , could not reach across the Queensferry ; but our ...
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Side 322 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
Side 201 - MY heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here : My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer ; Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe, My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go. Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North, The birth-place of valour, the country of worth ; Wherever I wander, wherever I rove, The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.
Side 201 - Cock up your beaver, and cock it fu' sprush ; We'll over the border and give them a brush ; There's somebody there we'll teach better behaviour, Hey, Johnnie lad, cock np your beaver.
Side 3 - ... practised by various great authors, and by ourselves in the preceding chapters. Nevertheless, a genuine correspondence of this kind (and Heaven forbid it should be in any respect sophisticated by interpolations of our own !) can seldom be found to contain all in which it is necessary to instruct the reader for his full comprehension of the story.
Side 201 - ... HEART'S IN THE HIGHLANDS. MY heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here ; My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer ; Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe, My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go.
Side 238 - Charlie,' upon the tenth of June. He is a black sheep, and deserves no encouragement." " Not a bad tune though, after all," said Summertrees ; and, turning to the window, he half hummed, half whistled, the air in question, then sang the last verse aloud: Oh I...
Side 85 - I answered, with an energy of which despair alone could have rendered me capable — " I will never submit to loss of freedom a moment longer than I am subjected to it by force.
Side 238 - I swear and vow by moon and stars, And sun that shines so early, If I had twenty thousand lives, I'd die as aft for Charlie.