The Pirate, Volumen 1Archibald Constable and Company; and Hurst, Robinson, and Company, London., 1822 - 346 páginas At the end of the 1600's, the customs and beliefs of the Norse are ebbing away from the Shetland and Orkney islands. Only the elder daughter of the Troil family wants to preserve the old ways, and vowing to marry only a "sea-king," favors a shipwrecked captain. Her father's cousin wishes her to marry Mordaunt, secretly believing him to be her long-lost son; Mordaunt though loves the younger daughter. Both men are driven from the Troils; Mordaunt is grievously injured and the captain is arrested for piracy. |
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... door , with the most undoubting confidence of instant admission , he was not a little surprised to find it not merely latched , which the weather might excuse , but even bolted , a thing which , as Magnus Troil has already intimated ...
... door , with the most undoubting confidence of instant admission , he was not a little surprised to find it not merely latched , which the weather might excuse , but even bolted , a thing which , as Magnus Troil has already intimated ...
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... door . " " My hand is in my housewife skep , Goodman , as ye may see ; If it shouldna be barr'd this hundred years , It's no be barr'd for ine . " Old Song . We can only hope that the gentle reader has ́not found the latter part of the ...
... door . " " My hand is in my housewife skep , Goodman , as ye may see ; If it shouldna be barr'd this hundred years , It's no be barr'd for ine . " Old Song . We can only hope that the gentle reader has ́not found the latter part of the ...
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... door . Mrs Baby , as we have described her , was no willing renderer of the rites of hospitality . In their farm of Cauldshouthers , in the Mearns , she had been the dread and abhorrence of all gaber- lunzie men , and travelling packmen ...
... door . Mrs Baby , as we have described her , was no willing renderer of the rites of hospitality . In their farm of Cauldshouthers , in the Mearns , she had been the dread and abhorrence of all gaber- lunzie men , and travelling packmen ...
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... door , Baby , it's a Christian deed . " " But is it a Christian deed of him to come in at the window then ? " said ... doors bolted in weather like this , and le- velling your gun at folk's heads as you would at a sealgh's ? " " And who ...
... door , Baby , it's a Christian deed . " " But is it a Christian deed of him to come in at the window then ? " said ... doors bolted in weather like this , and le- velling your gun at folk's heads as you would at a sealgh's ? " " And who ...
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... door pining , if it had not been for the gold chain . " 66 “ Nae doubt , nae doubt , ” replied Barbara ; ye wad not have me waste our substance on every thigger or sorner that has the luck to come by the door in a wet day ? but this lad ...
... door pining , if it had not been for the gold chain . " 66 “ Nae doubt , nae doubt , ” replied Barbara ; ye wad not have me waste our substance on every thigger or sorner that has the luck to come by the door in a wet day ? but this lad ...
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Página 50 - 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 49 - 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 297 - Tom, as they used to call him — somewhat roughly treated by the glorious John, you remember — Mordaunt, you remember — Methinks I see the new Arion sail, The lute still trembling underneath thy nail ; At thy well-sharpen'd thumb, from shore to shore, The trebles squeak for fear, the basses roar.