Waverley Novels: From the Last Rev. Ed., Containing the Author's Final Corrections, Notes, &c, Volumen 12S.H. Parker and B.B. Mussey, 1852 |
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... rest her ! and as for shelter , the old walls are thick enough , and will bear many a bang yet . But , Heaven love you , Mr. Mertoun think what you are purposing . For one of us to live at Jarlshof , were a wild scheme enough , but you ...
... rest her ! and as for shelter , the old walls are thick enough , and will bear many a bang yet . But , Heaven love you , Mr. Mertoun think what you are purposing . For one of us to live at Jarlshof , were a wild scheme enough , but you ...
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... rest as easily as you can interrupt my leisure . I know the meaning of scat , and wattle , and hawkhen , and The operation of slicing the blubber from the bones of the whale is called technically , flinching hagalef , and every other ...
... rest as easily as you can interrupt my leisure . I know the meaning of scat , and wattle , and hawkhen , and The operation of slicing the blubber from the bones of the whale is called technically , flinching hagalef , and every other ...
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... rest upon - to feel and know all this with the full confidence that your own agility of limb , and strength of head , can bring you as safe off as if you had the wing of the gosshawk— this is indeed being almost independent of the earth ...
... rest upon - to feel and know all this with the full confidence that your own agility of limb , and strength of head , can bring you as safe off as if you had the wing of the gosshawk— this is indeed being almost independent of the earth ...
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... rest of the company were less slow in receiving conviction . To Tronda and the jagger none was neces- sary ; they had long believed in the full extent of Nor- na's authority over the elements . But Triptolemus and his sister gazed at ...
... rest of the company were less slow in receiving conviction . To Tronda and the jagger none was neces- sary ; they had long believed in the full extent of Nor- na's authority over the elements . But Triptolemus and his sister gazed at ...
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... rest of my life ; and now it maun lie here till the next tide sweep it a ' doun the Roost , after them that aught it yesterday morning . " " Fear not , " said Norna , " it will come to man's use . See , there come carrion - crows , of ...
... rest of my life ; and now it maun lie here till the next tide sweep it a ' doun the Roost , after them that aught it yesterday morning . " " Fear not , " said Norna , " it will come to man's use . See , there come carrion - crows , of ...
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Página 187 - Goes on to sea, and knows not to retire. With roomy decks, her guns of mighty strength, Whose low-laid mouths each mounting billow laves : Deep in her draught, and warlike in her length, She seems a sea-wasp flying on the waves.
Página 119 - A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Página 235 - I pass, like night, from land to land; I have strange power of speech; That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me: To him my tale I teach.
Página 194 - I fear, too early : for my mind misgives, Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, Shall bitterly begin his fearful date With this night's revels...
Página 31 - She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies, And all that's best of dark and bright Meets in her aspect and her eyes, Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
Página 60 - I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history...
Página 162 - Portugal I sung, Was but the prelude to that glorious day, When thou on silver Thames didst cut thy way, With...