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... prince with the life of her darling child . They brought him here a prisoner , mortally wounded ; and you may trace the drops of his blood from the great hall door along the little gallery , and up to the saloon , where they laid him ...
... prince with the life of her darling child . They brought him here a prisoner , mortally wounded ; and you may trace the drops of his blood from the great hall door along the little gallery , and up to the saloon , where they laid him ...
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... Prince Hussein's tapestry , or Malek the Weaver's flying sentry- box . Those who are contented to remain with me will be occasionally exposed to the dulness inseparable from heavy roads , steep hills , sloughs , and other terrestrial ...
... Prince Hussein's tapestry , or Malek the Weaver's flying sentry- box . Those who are contented to remain with me will be occasionally exposed to the dulness inseparable from heavy roads , steep hills , sloughs , and other terrestrial ...
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... Prince Arthur , When ' gan he loudly through the house to call , But no man cared to answer to his cry ; There reign'd a solemn silence over all , Nor voice was heard , nor wight was seen in bower or hall . Filled almost with ...
... Prince Arthur , When ' gan he loudly through the house to call , But no man cared to answer to his cry ; There reign'd a solemn silence over all , Nor voice was heard , nor wight was seen in bower or hall . Filled almost with ...
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... prince receiving an embassy , ' Welcome , Evan Dhu Maccombich ; what news from Fergus Mac - Ivor Vich Ian Vohr ? ' ' Fergus Mac - Ivor Vich Ian Vohr , ' said the ambassador , in good English , greets you well , Baron of Bradwardine and ...
... prince receiving an embassy , ' Welcome , Evan Dhu Maccombich ; what news from Fergus Mac - Ivor Vich Ian Vohr ? ' ' Fergus Mac - Ivor Vich Ian Vohr , ' said the ambassador , in good English , greets you well , Baron of Bradwardine and ...
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... Prince's freend ? ' for she too , though with other feelings , had adopted the general opinion respecting Waverley . ' I daur ye to touch him , ' spreading abroad her long and muscular fingers , garnished with claws which a vulture ...
... Prince's freend ? ' for she too , though with other feelings , had adopted the general opinion respecting Waverley . ' I daur ye to touch him , ' spreading abroad her long and muscular fingers , garnished with claws which a vulture ...
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ancient answered appeared arms army attended Bailie Balmawhapple Baron of Bradwardine broadsword caliga called Callum Beg Captain Waverley Castle Caterans CHAPTER character Chevalier Chief Chieftain circumstances clan Colonel Talbot command dear Donald Bean Lean Edinburgh Edward Waverley English Evan Dhu eyes father favour feelings Fergus Mac-Ivor Flora Gay Bowers Gellatley gentleman Gilfillan Glennaquoich hand head heard hero Highland honour hope horse house of Stuart inclosures Jacobites Lady Laird letter look Lord Lord George Murray louis-d'or Lowland Maccombich Macwheeble Major Melville manner military mind Miss Bradwardine Miss Mac-Ivor morning never night observed occasion officer party passed person Perthshire Pinkie House poor portmanteau present Prince prisoner received regiment rendered replied returned romance Rose Bradwardine Scotland Scottish seemed Sir Everard soldiers spirit Spontoon supposed sword thought Tully-Veolan Vich Ian Vohr Waverley-Honour Waverley's Whig words young
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Página 460 - Diamonds on the brake are gleaming : And foresters have busy been, To track the buck in thicket green ; Now we come to chant our lay, "Waken, lords and ladies gay.
Página 179 - 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!
Página 347 - 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.
Página 1 - I must modestly admit I am too diffident of my own merit to place it in unnecessary opposition to preconceived associations ; I have, therefore, like a maiden knight with his white shield, assumed for my hero, WAVERLEY, an uncontaminated name, bearing with its sound little of good or evil, excepting what the reader shall hereafter be pleased to affix to it.
Página 70 - Hie away, hie away, Over bank and over brae, Where the copsewood is the greenest, Where the fountains glisten sheenest, Where the lady-fern grows strongest, Where the morning dew lies longest, Where the black-cock sweetest sips it^ Where the fairy latest trips it : Hie to haunts right seldom seen, Lovely, lonesome, cool and green, Over bank and over brae, Hie away, hie away. " Do the verses he sings," asked Waverley, " belong to old Scottish poetry, Miss Bradwardine ?" " I helieve not,
Página 481 - He continued all night under arms, wrapped up in his cloke, and generally sheltered under a rick of barley which happened to be in the field. About three in the morning he called his domestic servants to him, of which there were four in waiting. He dismissed three of them with most affectionate Christian advice, and such solemn charges relating to the performance of their duty, and the care of their souls, as seemed plainly to intimate that he apprehended it at least very probable he was taking his...
Página 481 - Whitney, who was shot through the arm here, and a few months after fell nobly in the battle of Falkirk, and by Lieutenant West, a man of distinguished bravery, as also by about fifteen dragoons, who stood by him to the last. But after a faint fire, the regiment in...
Página 460 - You shall see him brought to bay; ' Waken, lords and ladies gay.' Louder, louder chant the lay, Waken, lords and ladies gay! Tell them youth and mirth and glee Run a course as well as we; Time, stern huntsman! who can baulk, Stanch as hound and fleet as hawk; Think of this, and rise with day Gentle lords and ladies gay!
Página 447 - There is no European nation which, within the course of half a century or little more, has undergone so complete a change as this kingdom of Scotland. The effects of the insurrection of ,1745, — the destruction of the patriarchal power of the Highland chiefs, — the abolition of the heritable jurisdictions of the Lowland nobility and barons, — the total eradication of the Jacobite party, which, averse to intermingle with the English, or adopt their customs, long continued to pride themselves...
Página 2 - Waverley, a Romance from the German,' what head so obtuse as not to image forth a profligate abbot, an oppressive duke, a secret and mysterious association of Rosycrucians and Illuminati, with all their properties of black cowls, caverns, daggers, electrical machines, trap-doors, and darklanterns? Or if I had rather chosen to call my work a 'Sentimental Tale...