Waverly Novels: Highland widow. Two drovers, etcA. and C. Black, 1851 |
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... Speak , Here- ward ! if thou art aught but an empty creature of the imagination ! -speak , and tell me , if I have but dreamed of that monstrous ogre ! " " Collect thyself , my beloved Bertha , " said the Anglo - Saxon , recalled by the ...
... Speak , Here- ward ! if thou art aught but an empty creature of the imagination ! -speak , and tell me , if I have but dreamed of that monstrous ogre ! " " Collect thyself , my beloved Bertha , " said the Anglo - Saxon , recalled by the ...
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... speak of things that passed in a far different land , where faith and honour are not empty sounds ; as , alas ! they seem but too surely to be here . Trust me , it is no girlish terror which sends me out in this disguise of my country ...
... speak of things that passed in a far different land , where faith and honour are not empty sounds ; as , alas ! they seem but too surely to be here . Trust me , it is no girlish terror which sends me out in this disguise of my country ...
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... speak . They parted , Bertha returning to her mistress at the lodge , which she had left both with trouble and danger , and Hereward by the portal kept by the negro - portress , who , complimenting the hand- some Varangian on his ...
... speak . They parted , Bertha returning to her mistress at the lodge , which she had left both with trouble and danger , and Hereward by the portal kept by the negro - portress , who , complimenting the hand- some Varangian on his ...
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... speak with the utmost coolness , the husband's sparkling eye and crimsoned cheek betrayed the alteration which had taken place in his feelings . " The lady and the Cæsar , said Hereward , " as you partly heard yourself , are to meet in ...
... speak with the utmost coolness , the husband's sparkling eye and crimsoned cheek betrayed the alteration which had taken place in his feelings . " The lady and the Cæsar , said Hereward , " as you partly heard yourself , are to meet in ...
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... - comb . " Then speaking aloud , " My daughter , " he said , " be com- forted ; we ourselves were unwilling to believe the VOL . XLVII . C shameful truth ; but our guards have been debauch- ed COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS . 33.
... - comb . " Then speaking aloud , " My daughter , " he said , " be com- forted ; we ourselves were unwilling to believe the VOL . XLVII . C shameful truth ; but our guards have been debauch- ed COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS . 33.
Términos y frases comunes
abbot Achilles Tatius Agelastes alarm Alexius Comnenus ancient Anna Comnena answered appearance archer arms Aymer de Valence Bertha Bertram Blacquernal Bohemond Brenhilda Cæsar called CASTLE DANGEROUS Castle of Douglas combat command Constantinople Count of Paris Count Robert Countess crusaders danger daughter death degree Dickson Douban Douglas Castle Douglasses duty Emperor English knight eyes Fabian faithful father favour fear garrison Godfrey governor Greek Greek fire guard hand hath heard Heaven Hereward honour horse Immortal Guards Imperial John de Walton lady lance look Lord Lord of Douglas matter ment methinks minstrel Nicephorus Briennius noble occasion pass Patriarch person present Prince Tancred Princess purpose rendered replied respect Robert of Paris Saint Bride Saxon Scottish seemed Sir Aymer Sir John Sir Knight soldier supposed thaim thee thine thou art tion traitor trust Ursel Varangian Varangian guard voice word XLVII young knight youth
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Página 363 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Página 124 - And ye shall be betrayed, both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolk, and friends ; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death. And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake.
Página 363 - Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother: They parted— ne'er to meet again! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining— They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between;— But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, 425 The marks of that which once hath been.
Página 167 - Not only the bold Demetrius and his pupil Lascaris, but all the crowd whom they influenced, fled manfully when the commodore of the Greeks fired the first discharge ; and as the other vessels in the squadron followed his example, the heavens were filled with the unusual and outrageous noise, while the smoke was so thick as to darken the very air.