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Side 10
... continued restraint , which , however , he was desirous of veiling under some plausible pretext . In the anxiety which he felt on this occasion , he had held communication with an old acquaintance , Peter Drudgeit , with whom the reader ...
... continued restraint , which , however , he was desirous of veiling under some plausible pretext . In the anxiety which he felt on this occasion , he had held communication with an old acquaintance , Peter Drudgeit , with whom the reader ...
Side 43
... continued he , taking a sheet of gilt paper , " how we are to draw our answers . " Ere his pen had touched the paper , James was in the room again . " What now , James ? " " Lord Bladderscate's lad is come to ask how Mr Alan is , as he ...
... continued he , taking a sheet of gilt paper , " how we are to draw our answers . " Ere his pen had touched the paper , James was in the room again . " What now , James ? " " Lord Bladderscate's lad is come to ask how Mr Alan is , as he ...
Side 47
... continued to talk mysteriously of the very important business which had interfered with his son's attendance during the brief remain- der of the session . He endeavoured to lay the same unction to his own heart ; but here the ...
... continued to talk mysteriously of the very important business which had interfered with his son's attendance during the brief remain- der of the session . He endeavoured to lay the same unction to his own heart ; but here the ...
Side 75
... continued to advance swiftly and in great order , in their front " The fiery fiddlers playing martial airs ; " when , coming close up to us , they surrounded us by a single movement , and there was an JOURNAL . CHAP . IV . 75.
... continued to advance swiftly and in great order , in their front " The fiery fiddlers playing martial airs ; " when , coming close up to us , they surrounded us by a single movement , and there was an JOURNAL . CHAP . IV . 75.
Side 91
... continued in this dread- ful condition did not probably exceed two or three minutes , yet so strongly were they marked with horror and agony , that they seem to my re- collection a much more considerable space of time . When I had been ...
... continued in this dread- ful condition did not probably exceed two or three minutes , yet so strongly were they marked with horror and agony , that they seem to my re- collection a much more considerable space of time . When I had been ...
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acquainted addressed Alan Fairford Alan's answered auld Baliol betwixt Birrenswork called cause clerk cobite Court Cristal Nixon danger Darsie Latimer door Dorcas doubt Drudgeit Dumfries Edinburgh Edward Baliol endeavoured escape father favourable folks follow ford Geddes hand heard Herries hinnie honest honour hope horse Jacobites James Wilkinson John Davies Justice Foxley Justice of Peace lady Laird length letter loike look magistrate matter maun Maxwell means ment mind Mount Sharon mutchkin Nanty Ewart never occasion ower party Pate-in-Peril person Poor Peter Peebles present Provost Crosbie purpose Quaker recollection Redgauntlet replied Saint Bees Sallust Saunders Fairford Scotland seemed Shepherd's Bush shew singular Solway Summertrees thee thing thou thought tion tone trepanned Trumbull trust unhappy voice vost warrant weel Whigs wish words young gentleman young lawyer
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Side 203 - My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer; A-chasing the wild deer, and following the roe, My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go...
Side 326 - 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 160 - God bless the King !— God bless the Faith's defender !— God bless — No harm in blessing the Pretender. Who that Pretender is, and who that King,— God bless us all, — is quite another thing.
Side 323 - I hope, sir," answered Fairford, civilly, " you are in the habit of reading better books." " Faith," answered Nanty, " with help of a little Geneva text, I could read my Sallust as well as you can ; " and snatching the book from Alan's hand, he began to read, in the Scottish accent.
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 240 - 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 240 - 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.