there is nothing in Perthshire that she need want, if she ask her father to fetch it,, unless it be too hot or too heavy." " But to be the daughter of a cattle-stealer — a common thief!" " Common thief I — no such thing : Donald Bean Lean never lifted... Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Since - Página 108de Walter Scott - 1898Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Abram Smythe Palmer - 1882 - 734 páginas
...Hous, 1. 398. Is he so young a man and so old a lifter J Shakespeare, Troitus and Creaida, i. «, 129. He that steals a cow from a poor widow or a stirk...drove from a Sassenach laird, is a gentlemandrover. — Scott, Wavtrley, chap. Jtvili. LIKE. To like has often been understood to signify the attraction... | |
| Abram Smythe Palmer - 1882 - 700 páginas
...Houi, 1. 298. Is he so young a man and so old a lifter t Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, i. 2, 129. He that steals a cow from a poor widow or a stirk from a cottar is a thief; he that liftt a drove from a Sassenach laird, is a gentlemandrover. — Sctitt, Waverley, chap, xviii. LIKE.... | |
| Abram Smythe Palmer - 1882 - 716 páginas
...Hous, 1. 298. Is he so young a man and so old a lifter ? Shakespeare, Troitus and Cressida, i. 2, 129. He that steals a cow from a poor widow or a stirk from a cottar is a thief; he that/i/is a drove from a Sassenach laird, is a gentlemandrover. — Scott, Waverley, chap, xviii. LIKE.... | |
| ANDREW LANG - 1892 - 504 páginas
...hot or too heavy." " But to be the daughter of a cattle-stealer, — a common thief!" " Common thief! No such thing: Donald Bean Lean never lifted less...the forest, a salmon from the river, a deer from the i-54 WAVERLEY. hill, or a cow from a Lowland strath, is what no Highlander need ever think shame upon."... | |
| Walter Scott - 1892 - 564 páginas
...be the daughter of a cattle-stealer — a common thief ! ' ' Common thief ! — no such thing : Do lifted less than a drove in his life.' ' Do you call him an uncommon thief, ' No ; he that steals a cow from a poor .aid Bean Lean never hen?' idow, or a stirk from om a Sassenach... | |
| Walter Scott - 1896 - 554 páginas
...too heavy.' ' But to be the daughter of a cattle-stealer — a common thief ! ' ' Common thief ! — no such thing : Donald Bean Lean never lifted less...his life.' ' Do you call him an uncommon thief, then 1 ' ' No ; he that steals a cow from a poor widow, or a stirk from a cottar, is a thief ; he that lifts... | |
| 1903 - 444 páginas
...the exclamation : "But to be the daughter of a cattle-stealer — a common thief!" "Common thief ! No such thing. Donald Bean Lean never lifted less...life." "Do you call him an uncommon thief, then?" The Paterson Call is very fond of its joke, and it has always at least one on tap. The latest number... | |
| George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1868 - 590 páginas
...Evan Dhu by speaking of Donald Bean Lean -os a cattle-stealer and common thief. " Common thief! — No such thing : Donald Bean Lean never lifted less...drove from a Sassenach laird is a gentleman-drover." J In the Introduction to his proposed series of ' Tales of the Crusaders ' Scott makes Mr. Oldbuck,... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1906 - 520 páginas
...too heavy." " But to be the daughter of a cattle-stealer — a common thief ! " " Common thief ! — No such thing : Donald Bean Lean never lifted less...he that lifts a drove from a Sassenach laird, is a gentleman drover. And, besides, to take a tree from the forest, a salmon from the river, a deer from... | |
| Walter Scott - 1907 - 476 páginas
...too heavy." " But to be the daughter of a cattle-stealer—a common thief 1 " " Common thief 1—No such thing: Donald Bean Lean never lifted less than...his life." " Do you call him an uncommon thief, then ? " " No—he that steals a cow from a poor widow, or a stirk from a cottar, is a thief; he that lifts... | |
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