Waverley Novels ...: The pirateBlack, 1853 |
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... rock in an Arabian desert is not more reluctant to afford water , than Mr Basil Mertoun was niggard in imparting his confidence , even incidentally ; and certainly the politeness of the gentry of Thule was never put to a more severe ...
... rock in an Arabian desert is not more reluctant to afford water , than Mr Basil Mertoun was niggard in imparting his confidence , even incidentally ; and certainly the politeness of the gentry of Thule was never put to a more severe ...
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... rock - cod , purchased by the former from the latter , for the use of the family at Jarlshof . - When this was fairly ascertained and confessed , Mr Mertoun stood looking upon the culprits with eyes in which the utmost scorn seemed to ...
... rock - cod , purchased by the former from the latter , for the use of the family at Jarlshof . - When this was fairly ascertained and confessed , Mr Mertoun stood looking upon the culprits with eyes in which the utmost scorn seemed to ...
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... rock cod - fish at a penny instead of a halfpenny a - pound ; he therefore exhorted all the community never to raise their exactions in future beyond the proportion of threepence upon the shilling , at which rate their master at the ...
... rock cod - fish at a penny instead of a halfpenny a - pound ; he therefore exhorted all the community never to raise their exactions in future beyond the proportion of threepence upon the shilling , at which rate their master at the ...
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... rock , over which the vivid ocean foams and boils , —dark caverns , to whose extremities neither man nor skiff has ever ventured , - lonely , and often uninhabited isles , and occasionally the ruins of ancient northern fastnesses ...
... rock , over which the vivid ocean foams and boils , —dark caverns , to whose extremities neither man nor skiff has ever ventured , - lonely , and often uninhabited isles , and occasionally the ruins of ancient northern fastnesses ...
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... rock ? " answered Magnus . " I must not pass Stourburgh on the journey , " said the youth , deferring to his patron's prejudice against innovation , " if this boding weather bring on tempest ; but if it only break in rain , as is most ...
... rock ? " answered Magnus . " I must not pass Stourburgh on the journey , " said the youth , deferring to his patron's prejudice against innovation , " if this boding weather bring on tempest ; but if it only break in rain , as is most ...
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amongst ancient answered arms ashore Baby better betwixt boat Boatswain Brenda Bryce Snailsfoot Burgh-Westra called Captain Cleveland Claud Halcro command crew dance daughters Dick Fletcher eyes fair father favour fear Fitful-head gentleman gentlemen of fortune glorious John Goffe guests hand hear heard heart Heaven honest honour islands isles jagger Jarlshof John Dryden Kirkwall land Lerwick look Magnus Troil maiden mair manner Master mind Minna Troil Mistress Mordaunt Mertoun never Norna Norse occasion old Norse once Orcadian Orkney pedlar pirate poor Provost Ranzelman replied Mordaunt rock sail Saint Magnus Saint Ninian scarce Scotland seemed shewed shore sister sloop song speak spoke stone stood stranger Swertha tell thee thing thou thought tion tone Triptolemus Yellowley turned Udaller vessel voice waves weel wild wind woman word young youth Zetland
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Página 27 - SHE walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies ; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes : Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
Página 230 - I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history; And, questionless, here in this open court, Which now lies naked to the injuries Of stormy weather, some men lie...
Página 170 - 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 190 - E'en the last lingering fiction of the brain, The church-yard ghost, is now at rest again; And all these wayward wanderings of my youth Fly Reason's power and shun the light of truth.
Página 182 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key; As if our hands, our sides, voices...
Página 379 - Now the storm begins to lour. Haste the loom of hell prepare, Iron sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darken'd air.
Página 161 - And helter-skelter have I rode to thee, And tidings do I bring, and lucky joys, And golden times, and happy news of price.