Redgauntlet. By the author of 'Waverley'. |
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Side 17
... look at Poor Peter , and then cautiously inserting his fore - finger under his bob - wig , in order to rub his temple and aid his invention ; " he is no figure for the fore - bar to see without laughing ; but how to get rid of him ? To ...
... look at Poor Peter , and then cautiously inserting his fore - finger under his bob - wig , in order to rub his temple and aid his invention ; " he is no figure for the fore - bar to see without laughing ; but how to get rid of him ? To ...
Side 22
... looks be- came benign ; his family pride was propitiated , and , pleased equally with the modesty and civi- lity of the young man whom he had thought for- ward and officious , he relaxed the scorn of his features into an expression of ...
... looks be- came benign ; his family pride was propitiated , and , pleased equally with the modesty and civi- lity of the young man whom he had thought for- ward and officious , he relaxed the scorn of his features into an expression of ...
Side 29
... look of sur- prise and horror - uttered an exclamation , and flinging down the brief which he had in his hand , hurried out of court without returning a single word of answer to the various questions , “ What was the matter ? " " Was he ...
... look of sur- prise and horror - uttered an exclamation , and flinging down the brief which he had in his hand , hurried out of court without returning a single word of answer to the various questions , “ What was the matter ? " " Was he ...
Side 108
... , she could not always be on her guard , and some- thing , I thought , might drop from her which I could turn to advantage . " Does not the Squire usually look into his letter - bag , Dorcas ? " said I , 108 JOURNAL . CHAP . V.
... , she could not always be on her guard , and some- thing , I thought , might drop from her which I could turn to advantage . " Does not the Squire usually look into his letter - bag , Dorcas ? " said I , 108 JOURNAL . CHAP . V.
Side 126
... , having apparently made up his mind , he leaned back in his chair , and smoked his pipe with great energy , with a look of defiance , designed to make me aware that all my reasoning was lost on 126 JOURNAL . CHAP . VII .
... , having apparently made up his mind , he leaned back in his chair , and smoked his pipe with great energy , with a look of defiance , designed to make me aware that all my reasoning was lost on 126 JOURNAL . CHAP . 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.