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Side 79
... doubt wad be to your credit here and hereafter , where are ye to get the siller ? " " I have enough of money , " said I , attempt- ing to reach my hand towards my side - pocket ; " unloose these bandages , and I will pay you on the spot ...
... doubt wad be to your credit here and hereafter , where are ye to get the siller ? " " I have enough of money , " said I , attempt- ing to reach my hand towards my side - pocket ; " unloose these bandages , and I will pay you on the spot ...
Side 83
... doubt that we were engaged in passing the formidable estuary which divides the two king- doms . There seemed to be at least five or six people about the cart , some on foot , others on horse- back ; the former lent assistance whenever ...
... doubt that we were engaged in passing the formidable estuary which divides the two king- doms . There seemed to be at least five or six people about the cart , some on foot , others on horse- back ; the former lent assistance whenever ...
Side 88
... doubt that I would be left behind as an useless in- cumbrance , and that while I was in a condi- tion which rendered every chance of escape im- practicable . These were awful apprehensions ; but it pleased Providence to increase them to ...
... doubt that I would be left behind as an useless in- cumbrance , and that while I was in a condi- tion which rendered every chance of escape im- practicable . These were awful apprehensions ; but it pleased Providence to increase them to ...
Side 161
... doubt of arranging my affairs , so that we shall speedily have sport together again . " He went to wait upon the Justice to the court- yard ; and , as he did so , commanded Cristal Nixon to see that I returned into my apartment ...
... doubt of arranging my affairs , so that we shall speedily have sport together again . " He went to wait upon the Justice to the court- yard ; and , as he did so , commanded Cristal Nixon to see that I returned into my apartment ...
Side 167
... , he observed , " Doubt not that it is stamped on your forehead -the fatal mark of our race ; though it is not now so apparent as it will become when age and sorrow , and the traces of stormy passions , JOURNAL . CHAP . VIII . 167.
... , he observed , " Doubt not that it is stamped on your forehead -the fatal mark of our race ; though it is not now so apparent as it will become when age and sorrow , and the traces of stormy passions , JOURNAL . CHAP . VIII . 167.
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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.