Waverley; or, 'Tis sixty years since, Volumen 2J. Ballantyne, 1814 |
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... called the tinchel , which , gradually closing , drove the deer in herds together towards the glen where the Chiefs and principal sports- men lay in wait for them . In the mean- while , these distinguished personages bi- vouacked among ...
... called the tinchel , which , gradually closing , drove the deer in herds together towards the glen where the Chiefs and principal sports- men lay in wait for them . In the mean- while , these distinguished personages bi- vouacked among ...
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... called making the deasil , both the leach and the assistants seemed to consider as a matter of the last importance to the accomplish- ment of a cure ; and Edward , whom pain rendered incapable of expostulation , and who indeed saw no ...
... called making the deasil , both the leach and the assistants seemed to consider as a matter of the last importance to the accomplish- ment of a cure ; and Edward , whom pain rendered incapable of expostulation , and who indeed saw no ...
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... called upon him to lay down his commission ; and he therefore inclosed the formal resignation of a situation which subjected him to so unpleasant a corre- spondence , and requested Colonel G would have the goodness to forward it to the ...
... called upon him to lay down his commission ; and he therefore inclosed the formal resignation of a situation which subjected him to so unpleasant a corre- spondence , and requested Colonel G would have the goodness to forward it to the ...
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... called my own settlement in life .. Let me but live to see the day of that happy restoration , and a Highland cottage , a French convent , or an English palace , will be alike indifferent to me . " 66 But , dearest Flora , how is your ...
... called my own settlement in life .. Let me but live to see the day of that happy restoration , and a Highland cottage , a French convent , or an English palace , will be alike indifferent to me . " 66 But , dearest Flora , how is your ...
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... called it , to deposit the treasure in his fob ; and then , as if he con- ceived the benevolence called for some requital on his part , he gathered close up to Edward , with an expression of counte nance peculiarly knowing , and spoke ...
... called it , to deposit the treasure in his fob ; and then , as if he con- ceived the benevolence called for some requital on his part , he gathered close up to Edward , with an expression of counte nance peculiarly knowing , and spoke ...
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Página 77 - 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 343 - English dialect by the equally well-distinguished voice of the commanding officer, for whom he had once felt so much respect. It was at that instant, that, looking around him, he saw the wild dress and appearance of his Highland associates, heard their whispers in an uncouth and unknown language, looked upon his own dress, so unlike that which he had worn from his infancy, and wished to awake from what seemed at the moment a dream, strange, horrible, and unnatural.
Página 255 - ... side, he was irresistibly attracted to the cause which the prejudices of education, and the political principles of his family, had already recommended as the most just. These thoughts rushed through his mind like a torrent, sweeping before them every consideration of an opposite tendency, — the time, besides, admitted of no deliberation , — and Waverley, kneeling to Charles Edward, devoted his heart and sword to the vindication of his rights...
Página 3 - Mongst craggy cliffs and thunder-battered hills, Hares, hinds, bucks, roes, are chased by men and dogs, Where two hours' hunting fourscore fat deer kills. Lowland, your sports are low as is your seat; The Highland games and minds are high and great.