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Side 13
... Hear- ing in presence - stands for the Short Roll for this day - I have not been able to sleep for a week for thinking of it , and , I dare to say , neither has the Lord President himsell - for such a cause !! But your father gar'd me ...
... Hear- ing in presence - stands for the Short Roll for this day - I have not been able to sleep for a week for thinking of it , and , I dare to say , neither has the Lord President himsell - for such a cause !! But your father gar'd me ...
Side 16
... old gentleman , almost at his own wits end upon hear- ing this dilemma ; " dinna mind the silly ne'er- do - weel ; we cannot keep the man from 9 16 NARRATIVE . CHAP . I. These demonstrations, and the obvious shame ...
... old gentleman , almost at his own wits end upon hear- ing this dilemma ; " dinna mind the silly ne'er- do - weel ; we cannot keep the man from 9 16 NARRATIVE . CHAP . I. These demonstrations, and the obvious shame ...
Side 91
... hear again . " Else you think I had let the waves do the work ? But remember , the shepherd saves his sheep from the torrent is it to preserve its life ? -Be silent , however , with questions or entreaties . What I mean to do , thou ...
... hear again . " Else you think I had let the waves do the work ? But remember , the shepherd saves his sheep from the torrent is it to preserve its life ? -Be silent , however , with questions or entreaties . What I mean to do , thou ...
Side 100
... hear any person approach me through the other apartments , and have time enough to put aside my journal before they come upon me . The servants , a stout country - fellow , and a very pretty milkmaid - looking lass , by whom I 100 CHAP ...
... hear any person approach me through the other apartments , and have time enough to put aside my journal before they come upon me . The servants , a stout country - fellow , and a very pretty milkmaid - looking lass , by whom I 100 CHAP ...
Side 115
... a moment in silence , which was at length broken by my visitor . " You have desired to see me , " he said . " I am here ; if you have aught to say , let me hear it ; my time is too brief to be consumed [ 115 ] CHAPTER VII. ...
... a moment in silence , which was at length broken by my visitor . " You have desired to see me , " he said . " I am here ; if you have aught to say , let me hear it ; my time is too brief to be consumed [ 115 ] CHAPTER VII. ...
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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.