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... dinna think yon's auld Kittle- stonheugh's crookit bairnswoman . I won'er what's come o ' the laird , poor bodie , sin ' he was rookit by the Darien . Eh ! what an alteration it was to Mrs Walkinshaw , his gudedochter . She was a bonny ...
... dinna think yon's auld Kittle- stonheugh's crookit bairnswoman . I won'er what's come o ' the laird , poor bodie , sin ' he was rookit by the Darien . Eh ! what an alteration it was to Mrs Walkinshaw , his gudedochter . She was a bonny ...
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... dinna see ony moral impossibility in her becoming , as the psalmist says , ' bone of thy bone . " Claud replied in his wonted couthy manner : " Nane o ' your jokes , laird — me even mysel ' to your dochter ! Na , na , Plealands , that ...
... dinna see ony moral impossibility in her becoming , as the psalmist says , ' bone of thy bone . " Claud replied in his wonted couthy manner : " Nane o ' your jokes , laird — me even mysel ' to your dochter ! Na , na , Plealands , that ...
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... dinna think I'll e'er be able to sit down again ! " This colloquy was , however , speedily put an end to , by the appearance of a covered cart , in which three ministers were returning from the synod to their respective parishes in ...
... dinna think I'll e'er be able to sit down again ! " This colloquy was , however , speedily put an end to , by the appearance of a covered cart , in which three ministers were returning from the synod to their respective parishes in ...
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... dinna let us argol - bargol about it ; entail your own property as ye will , mine shall be on the second son ; ye can ne'er object to that . " " Second son , and the first scarce sax days auld ! I tell you what it is , an ye'll no make ...
... dinna let us argol - bargol about it ; entail your own property as ye will , mine shall be on the second son ; ye can ne'er object to that . " " Second son , and the first scarce sax days auld ! I tell you what it is , an ye'll no make ...
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... dinna know what a misfortune I hae met wi ' . I was , as ye ken , at the Plealands when my father took his departal to a better world , and sent for my mournings frae Glasgow , and frae the gudeman , as ye would naturally expeck , and I ...
... dinna know what a misfortune I hae met wi ' . I was , as ye ken , at the Plealands when my father took his departal to a better world , and sent for my mournings frae Glasgow , and frae the gudeman , as ye would naturally expeck , and I ...
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Page 68 - Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me. And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy firstborn Esau.
Page 68 - And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me.