Redgauntlet. By the author of 'Waverley'. |
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Side 82
... eyes -it was to no purpose - all around me was dark , for a day had passed over during my captivity . A dispiriting sickness oppressed my head - my heart seemed on fire , while my feet and hands were chilled and benumbed with want of ...
... eyes -it was to no purpose - all around me was dark , for a day had passed over during my captivity . A dispiriting sickness oppressed my head - my heart seemed on fire , while my feet and hands were chilled and benumbed with want of ...
Side 90
... eyes began to swim - my head grew giddy and mad with fear - I chatter- ed and howled to the howling and roaring sea . One or two great waves already reached the cart , when the conductor of the party whom I have mentioned so often , was ...
... eyes began to swim - my head grew giddy and mad with fear - I chatter- ed and howled to the howling and roaring sea . One or two great waves already reached the cart , when the conductor of the party whom I have mentioned so often , was ...
Side 124
... eyes seemed flying out of his head , from the effort with which he retained his breath . He then blew it forth with , " Whew ! -Hoom - poof - ha ! -not know your parents , youngster ? -Then I must commit you for a vagrant , I warrant ...
... eyes seemed flying out of his head , from the effort with which he retained his breath . He then blew it forth with , " Whew ! -Hoom - poof - ha ! -not know your parents , youngster ? -Then I must commit you for a vagrant , I warrant ...
Side 125
... eye from time to time upon the opposite party , who seemed en- tirely indifferent to all the animation with which I accused him . As for the Justice , when at length I had ceased , as really not knowing what more to say in a case so ...
... eye from time to time upon the opposite party , who seemed en- tirely indifferent to all the animation with which I accused him . As for the Justice , when at length I had ceased , as really not knowing what more to say in a case so ...
Side 129
... side ; while he bent on me a frown so portentous , that no one who has witnessed the look can for- get it during the whole of his life . The furrows VOL . II . I of the brow above the eyes became livid and al- JOURNAL . CHAP . VI . 129.
... side ; while he bent on me a frown so portentous , that no one who has witnessed the look can for- get it during the whole of his life . The furrows VOL . II . I of the brow above the eyes became livid and al- JOURNAL . CHAP . VI . 129.
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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.