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... Direct to the Post - Office here . I shall leave orders to forward your letters wherever I may travel . * It is well known and remembered , that when Members of Parlia- ment enjoyed the unlimited privilege of franking by the mere ...
... Direct to the Post - Office here . I shall leave orders to forward your letters wherever I may travel . * It is well known and remembered , that when Members of Parlia- ment enjoyed the unlimited privilege of franking by the mere ...
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... direct path , by which the rider , avoiding the loose quicksands , made for the northern bank . My friend , perhaps I may call him my preserver , —for to a stranger , my situation was fraught with real danger , -continued to press on at ...
... direct path , by which the rider , avoiding the loose quicksands , made for the northern bank . My friend , perhaps I may call him my preserver , —for to a stranger , my situation was fraught with real danger , -continued to press on at ...
Side 57
Walter Scott. I asked my new friend whether he could not direct me to any house of public entertainment for the night ; and supposing it probable he was himself a poor man , I added , with the conscious dignity of a well - filled pocket ...
Walter Scott. I asked my new friend whether he could not direct me to any house of public entertainment for the night ; and supposing it probable he was himself a poor man , I added , with the conscious dignity of a well - filled pocket ...
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... direct hint from my father obliged me to withdraw ; and when , an hour afterwards , I was summoned to partake of a cup of tea , our guest had departed . He had business that evening in the High - Street , and could not spare time even ...
... direct hint from my father obliged me to withdraw ; and when , an hour afterwards , I was summoned to partake of a cup of tea , our guest had departed . He had business that evening in the High - Street , and could not spare time even ...
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... direct Solomon towards the distant bridge of stone ; but Solomon opined that the ford was the shortest way to his own stable . The point was sharply contested , and we heard Benjie gee - hupping , 102 WAVERLEY NOVELS .
... direct Solomon towards the distant bridge of stone ; but Solomon opined that the ford was the shortest way to his own stable . The point was sharply contested , and we heard Benjie gee - hupping , 102 WAVERLEY NOVELS .
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Alan Fairford amusement aneugh answered auld betwixt brandy called cause clerk client companion countenance Court Cristal Nixon dance danger Darsie Latimer door Dorcas Dougal Dumfries eyes father favour fear fish gentleman give gude gudesire hand hast hath heard heart Herries of Birrenswork hinnie honour hope horse Jacobite James James Wilkinson John Davies Joshua Geddes lady Laird laugh least length letter look Lord mair matter maun mind Mount Sharon muckle neighbour never night observed once ower passed perhaps person pipe and tabor Plainstanes present Quaker received recollection Redgauntlet replied Saint Bees Samuel Griffiths Scotland Scots law Scottish seemed Shepherd's Bush siller Sir John Sir Robert Solway speak Steenie tell thee thine thing thou art thought tion tone turned voice walk weel Whigs whilk Willie wish word XXXV young
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Side 167 - ... jackanape, that was a special pet of his ; a cankered beast it was, and mony an ill-natured trick it played — ill to please it was, and easily angered — ran about the haill castle, chattering and yowling, and pinching, and biting folk, specially before ill weather, or disturbances in the state.
Side 166 - Jacobites, just out of a kind of needcessity, that he might belang to some side or other. He had nae illwill to the Whig bodies, and liked little to see the blude rin, though, being obliged to follow Sir Robert in hunting and hosting, watching and warding, he saw muckle mischief, and maybe did some, that he couldna avoid. Now Steenie was a kind of favourite with his master, and kend a...
Side 187 - ... very far in tampering with dangerous matters, yet, as he had refused the devil's arles (for such was the offer of meat and drink), and had refused to do homage by piping at his bidding, he hoped that, if he held a circumspect walk hereafter, Satan could take little advantage by what was come and gane. And, indeed, my gudesire of his ain accord lang...
Side 164 - Dalyell's. Glen, nor dargle, nor mountain, nor cave, could hide the puir hill-folk when Redgauntlet was out with bugle and bloodhound after them, as if they had been sae mony deer. And troth when they fand them, they didna mak muckle mair ceremony than a Hielandman wi' a roebuck — It was just, "Will ye tak the test?
Side 180 - They that waited at the table were just the wicked servingmen and troopers that had done their work and cruel bidding on earth. There was the Lang Lad of the Nethertown, that helped to take Argyle ; and the bishop's summoner, that they called the Deil's Rattlebag ; and the wicked guardsmen in their laced coats; and the savage Highland Amorites, that shed blood like water; and...
Side 176 - Down the stairs he ran, (for the parlour was nae place for him after such a word,) and he heard the Laird swearing blood and wounds, behind him, as fast as ever did Sir Robert, and roaring for the bailie and the baron-officer. Away rode my gudesire to his chief creditor, (him they...
Side 5 - From seventeen years till now almost fourscore Here lived I, but now live here no more. At seventeen years many their fortunes seek, But at fourscore it is too late a week: Yet fortune cannot recompense me better Than to die well and not my master's debtor.
Side 186 - ... father's credit, as an honest man, that he should, even after his death, desire to see justice done to a poor man like you, yet you are sensible that ill-dispositioned men might make bad constructions upon it, concerning his soul's health. So, I think, we had better lay the haill dirdum on that ill-deedie creature, Major Weir, and say naething about your dream in the wood of Pitmurkie.
Side 187 - ... gaen very far in tampering with dangerous matters, yet, as he had refused the devil's arles, (for such was the offer of meat and drink), and had refused to do homage by piping at his bidding, he hoped, that if he held a circumspect walk hereafter, Satan could take little...
Side 169 - Robert gave my gudesire a look as if he would have withered his heart in his bosom. Ye maun ken he had a way of bending his brows that men saw the visible mark of a horseshoe in his forehead, deep-dinted, as if it had been stamped there.