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Side 29
... returning a single word of answer to the various questions , “ What was the matter ? " " Was he taken unwell ? " . " Should not a chair be called ? " & c . & c . & c . The elder Mr Fairford , who remained seated , and looking as ...
... returning a single word of answer to the various questions , “ What was the matter ? " " Was he taken unwell ? " . " Should not a chair be called ? " & c . & c . & c . The elder Mr Fairford , who remained seated , and looking as ...
Side 31
... returned the money into their leathern pouches , and said , " that the lad was clever , but they would like to see more of him before they engaged him in the way of business - they did not like his lowping away like a flea in a blanket ...
... returned the money into their leathern pouches , and said , " that the lad was clever , but they would like to see more of him before they engaged him in the way of business - they did not like his lowping away like a flea in a blanket ...
Side 62
... , I warrant thee , " said Joshua Geddes , returning the pressure of my man shall young with hand . 66 Rachel , the go me . Why should he not face danger , in order to do justice and preserve peace ? There is that 62 CHAP . III . JOURNAL .
... , I warrant thee , " said Joshua Geddes , returning the pressure of my man shall young with hand . 66 Rachel , the go me . Why should he not face danger , in order to do justice and preserve peace ? There is that 62 CHAP . III . JOURNAL .
Side 75
... returned , and a brace of fiddlers who occupied the front of the march immediately struck up the insulting air , the words of which begin , " Merrily danced the Quaker's wife , And merrily danced the Quaker . ” Even at that moment of ...
... returned , and a brace of fiddlers who occupied the front of the march immediately struck up the insulting air , the words of which begin , " Merrily danced the Quaker's wife , And merrily danced the Quaker . ” Even at that moment of ...
Side 148
... returned me one of those extraordinary looks , by which he could contort so strangely the wrinkles on his forehead . I started ; but , angry at myself for my pusillanimity , I answered him by a look of the same kind , and catching the ...
... returned me one of those extraordinary looks , by which he could contort so strangely the wrinkles on his forehead . I started ; but , angry at myself for my pusillanimity , I answered him by a look of the same kind , and catching the ...
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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.