The Handy Volume "Waverley" ...: RedgauntletBradbury, Agnew, 1877 |
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... person , had the honour to sign a bitter protest against the Union , in the respectable character of town - clerk to the ancient Borough of Birlthegoat ; and there is some reason- shall I say to hope , or to suspect ? —that he may have ...
... person , had the honour to sign a bitter protest against the Union , in the respectable character of town - clerk to the ancient Borough of Birlthegoat ; and there is some reason- shall I say to hope , or to suspect ? —that he may have ...
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... person of his coarse appearance , placed two chairs at the head of the table , and two stools below ; accommodating each seat to a cover , beside which he placed an allowance of barley - bread , and a small jug , which he replenished ...
... person of his coarse appearance , placed two chairs at the head of the table , and two stools below ; accommodating each seat to a cover , beside which he placed an allowance of barley - bread , and a small jug , which he replenished ...
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... person turned and returned as he reached the end of the apartment , it seemed clear to me that the walker was engaged in no domestic occupa- tion , but merely pacing to and fro for his own pleasure . " An odd amusement this , " I ...
... person turned and returned as he reached the end of the apartment , it seemed clear to me that the walker was engaged in no domestic occupa- tion , but merely pacing to and fro for his own pleasure . " An odd amusement this , " I ...
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... person from whom we have just parted , " said I , " and our connection is only temporary - He had the charity to give me his guidance from the Sands , and a night's harbourage from the tempest . So our acquaintance began , and there it ...
... person from whom we have just parted , " said I , " and our connection is only temporary - He had the charity to give me his guidance from the Sands , and a night's harbourage from the tempest . So our acquaintance began , and there it ...
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... person with whom I slept last night ? —I heard you call him the Laird - Is he at the head of a gang ? " " Nay , I meant not precisely a gang , " said the Quaker , who appeared in his haste to have spoken more than he intended- " a ...
... person with whom I slept last night ? —I heard you call him the Laird - Is he at the head of a gang ? " " Nay , I meant not precisely a gang , " said the Quaker , who appeared in his haste to have spoken more than he intended- " a ...
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Side 141 - And there was Claverhouse, as beautiful as when he lived, with his long, dark, curled locks, streaming down over his laced buff-coat, and his left hand always on his right spule-blade, to hide the wound that the silver bullet had made.* He sat apart from them all, and looked at them with a melancholy, haughty countenance ; while the rest hallooed, and sung, and laughed, that the room rang.
Side 134 - I am clear it has been a rental of back-ganging tenants. "Stephen," said Sir John, still in the same soft, sleekit tone of voice - "Stephen Stevenson, or Steenson, ye are down here for a year's rent behind the hand - due at last term." Stephen: "Please your honour, Sir John, I paid it to your father.
Side 140 - Never fash yoursell wi' me," said Dougal, "but look to yoursell; and see ye tak naething frae onybody here, neither meat, drink, or siller^ except just the receipt that is your ain.
Side 128 - Steenie was a kind of favourite with his master, and kend a' the folks about the castle, and was often sent for to play the pipes when they were at their merriment. Auld Dougal MacCallum, the butler, that had followed Sir Robert through gude and ill, thick and thin, pool and stream, was specially fond of the pipes, and aye gae my gudesire his gude word wi* the Laird; for Dougal could turn his master round his finger.
Side 142 - bring Steenie the pipes that I am keeping for him!" MacCallum brought a pair of pipes might have served the piper of Donald of the Isles. But he gave my gudesire a nudge as he offered them; and looking secretly and closely, Steenie saw that the chanter was of steel, and heated to a white heat; so he had fair warning not to trust his fingers with it. So he excused himself again, and said he was faint and frightened, and had not wind enough to fill the bag. "Then ye maun eat and drink, Steenie...
Side 36 - He was perhaps sixty years old ; yet his brow was not much furrowed, and his jet black hair was only grizzled, not whitened, by the advance of age. All his motions spoke strength unabated ; and, though rather undersized, he had very broad shoulders, was square-made, thin-flanked, and apparently combined in his frame muscular strength and activity; the last somewhat impaired perhaps by years, but the first remaining in full vigour.
Side 131 - But they werena weel out of the room, when Sir Robert gied a yelloch that garr'd the Castle rock. Back ran Dougal — in flew the livery-men — yell on yell gied the Laird, ilk ane mair awfu
Side 130 - I should say, lay, in a great armchair, wi' his grand velvet gown, and his feet on a cradle; for he had baith gout and gravel, and his face looked as gash and ghastly as Satan's. Major Weir sat opposite to him, in a red laced coat, and the Laird's wig on his head; and aye as Sir Robert girned wi' pain, the jackanape girned too, like a sheep's-head between a pair of tangs — an ill-faur'd, fearsome couple they were.
Side 147 - if you be so much distressed in mind, you may speak to our minister of the parish; he is a douce man, regards the honour of our family, and the mair that he may look for some patronage from me.
Side 134 - I wuss ye joy, sir, of the head seat, and the white loaf, and the braid lairdship. Your father was a kind man to friends and followers ; muckle grace to you, Sir John, to fill his shoon — his boots, I suld say, for hi; seldom wore shoon, unless it were muils when he had the gout.