Redgauntlet. By the author of 'Waverley'. |
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... present adopted , resembles the original discipline of the dragoons , who were trained to serve on foot or horseback , as the emer- gencies of the service required . With this expla- nation , we shall proceed to explain some circum ...
... present adopted , resembles the original discipline of the dragoons , who were trained to serve on foot or horseback , as the emer- gencies of the service required . With this expla- nation , we shall proceed to explain some circum ...
Side 13
... present to the consideration of the young counsel the principal facts of the case , in a light equally simple and comprehensible . With the assistance of a solicitor so affectionate and in- defatigable , Alan Fairford was enabled , when ...
... present to the consideration of the young counsel the principal facts of the case , in a light equally simple and comprehensible . With the assistance of a solicitor so affectionate and in- defatigable , Alan Fairford was enabled , when ...
Side 20
... present task commen- ced and ended , that he might hasten to Darsie's as- sistance . The hour and moment at length arrived . The Macer shouted , with all his brazen strength of lungs , " Poor Peter Peebles v . Plainstanes , per ...
... present task commen- ced and ended , that he might hasten to Darsie's as- sistance . The hour and moment at length arrived . The Macer shouted , with all his brazen strength of lungs , " Poor Peter Peebles v . Plainstanes , per ...
Side 25
... present debtor , from Court to Court ; had found his just claims met with well - invented but unfounded counter - claims , had seen his party shift his character of pursuer or defender , as of- ten as Harlequin effects his ...
... present debtor , from Court to Court ; had found his just claims met with well - invented but unfounded counter - claims , had seen his party shift his character of pursuer or defender , as of- ten as Harlequin effects his ...
Side 26
... present to ex- cite any ludicrous emotion , and the pause that took place when the young lawyer had concluded his speech , was followed by a murmur of appro- bation , which the ears of his father drank in as the sweetest sounds that had ...
... present to ex- cite any ludicrous emotion , and the pause that took place when the young lawyer had concluded his speech , was followed by a murmur of appro- bation , which the ears of his father drank in as the sweetest sounds that had ...
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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.