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Side 117
... walls were adorned with the usual number of heroes in armour , with large wigs instead of helmets , and ladies in sacques , smelling to nosegays . Behind a large table , on which were several books JOURNAL . 117 CHAP . VII .
... walls were adorned with the usual number of heroes in armour , with large wigs instead of helmets , and ladies in sacques , smelling to nosegays . Behind a large table , on which were several books JOURNAL . 117 CHAP . VII .
Side 127
... usual interjectional ejaculations , and by long volumes of smoke : - " Hem - ay- eh - poof - And , youngster , do you think Mat- thew Foxley , who has been one of the quorum for these thirty years , is to be come over with such trash as ...
... usual interjectional ejaculations , and by long volumes of smoke : - " Hem - ay- eh - poof - And , youngster , do you think Mat- thew Foxley , who has been one of the quorum for these thirty years , is to be come over with such trash as ...
Side 149
... usual ; " and was very near - hem - being hanged into the boot . But this is another guess job - for - eh - fifteen is not forty - five ; and my father had a remission , and you , I take it , have none . " ( 6 " Perhaps I have , " said ...
... usual ; " and was very near - hem - being hanged into the boot . But this is another guess job - for - eh - fifteen is not forty - five ; and my father had a remission , and you , I take it , have none . " ( 6 " Perhaps I have , " said ...
Side 153
... usual , " Neighbour In- goldsby - what you say - is - eh - in some sort true ; and when you were coming and going at markets , horse - races , and cock - fights , fairs , hunts , and such like - it was - eh - neither my business nor my ...
... usual , " Neighbour In- goldsby - what you say - is - eh - in some sort true ; and when you were coming and going at markets , horse - races , and cock - fights , fairs , hunts , and such like - it was - eh - neither my business nor my ...
Side 199
... usual at public festivals , than that the air played to accompany a particular health or toast , is made the vehicle of compliment , of wit , and sometimes of satire . While these things passed through my mind rapidly , I heard my ...
... usual at public festivals , than that the air played to accompany a particular health or toast , is made the vehicle of compliment , of wit , and sometimes of satire . While these things passed through my mind rapidly , I heard my ...
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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.