Waverley, Or, 'tis Sixty Years Since: In Three Volumes, Volumen 1 |
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My thoughts , therefore , returned more than once to the tale which I had actually
commenced , and accident at length threw the lost sheets in my way . I happened
to want some fishing - tackle for the use of a guest , when it occurred to me to ...
My thoughts , therefore , returned more than once to the tale which I had actually
commenced , and accident at length threw the lost sheets in my way . I happened
to want some fishing - tackle for the use of a guest , when it occurred to me to ...
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By the command of so good a merchant , he brought horses to the same spot
more than once ; the purchaser only stipulating that he should always come by
night , and alone . I do not know whether it was from mere curiosity , or whether
some ...
By the command of so good a merchant , he brought horses to the same spot
more than once ; the purchaser only stipulating that he should always come by
night , and alone . I do not know whether it was from mere curiosity , or whether
some ...
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... dear cursed caitiffs , there was once a king , and old queen , and she had a
child ; and this child was sent to Solomon the Șage , praying he would give it the
same blessing which he got from the witch of Endor when she bit him by the heel
.
... dear cursed caitiffs , there was once a king , and old queen , and she had a
child ; and this child was sent to Solomon the Șage , praying he would give it the
same blessing which he got from the witch of Endor when she bit him by the heel
.
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This lad was always first in the charge , and last in the retreat -- the Achilles , at
once , and Ajax , of the Cross - causeway . He was too formidable to us not to
have a cognomen , and , like that of a knight of old , it was taken from the most ...
This lad was always first in the charge , and last in the retreat -- the Achilles , at
once , and Ajax , of the Cross - causeway . He was too formidable to us not to
have a cognomen , and , like that of a knight of old , it was taken from the most ...
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Invernahyle chanced to be in Edinburgh when Paul Jones came into the Frith of
Forth , and though then an old man , I saw him in arms , and heard him exult ( to
use his own words ) in the prospect of « drawing his claymore once more before
...
Invernahyle chanced to be in Edinburgh when Paul Jones came into the Frith of
Forth , and though then an old man , I saw him in arms , and heard him exult ( to
use his own words ) in the prospect of « drawing his claymore once more before
...
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