The Waverley Novels, Issue 8Estes and Lauriat, 1893 |
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... wild , shaggy , dwarfish cattle and ponies , conducted by Highlanders as wild , as shaggy , and sometimes as dwarfish , as the animals they had in charge , often traversed the streets of Glasgow . Strangers gazed with surprise on the ...
... wild , shaggy , dwarfish cattle and ponies , conducted by Highlanders as wild , as shaggy , and sometimes as dwarfish , as the animals they had in charge , often traversed the streets of Glasgow . Strangers gazed with surprise on the ...
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... which it was de- livered . The martial and wild look , however , of these stragglers added a kind of character which the congregation could not have exhibited without them . They were more numerous , Andrew after- wards ROB ROY . 31.
... which it was de- livered . The martial and wild look , however , of these stragglers added a kind of character which the congregation could not have exhibited without them . They were more numerous , Andrew after- wards ROB ROY . 31.
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... wild , and wayward , The desperate revelries of wild despair , Kindling their hell - born cressets , light to deeds That the poor captive would have died ere practised , Till bondage sunk his soul to his condition . The Prison , Scene ...
... wild , and wayward , The desperate revelries of wild despair , Kindling their hell - born cressets , light to deeds That the poor captive would have died ere practised , Till bondage sunk his soul to his condition . The Prison , Scene ...
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... wild , irregular , and , as it were , unearthly , to his appear- ance , and reminded me involuntarily of the tales which Mabel used to tell of the old Picts who ravaged Northumberland in ancient times , who , according to her tradition ...
... wild , irregular , and , as it were , unearthly , to his appear- ance , and reminded me involuntarily of the tales which Mabel used to tell of the old Picts who ravaged Northumberland in ancient times , who , according to her tradition ...
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... wild hills , Robin , and your kilted red - shanks , it disna become my place , man . " - " The devil damn your place and you baith ! " re- iterated Campbell . " The only drap o ' gentle bluid that's in your body was our great grand ...
... wild hills , Robin , and your kilted red - shanks , it disna become my place , man . " - " The devil damn your place and you baith ! " re- iterated Campbell . " The only drap o ' gentle bluid that's in your body was our great grand ...
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Aberfoil amang Andrew Fairservice answered arms auld Bailie baith bawbee Campbell canna Clachan commanding cousin Cupar deil Diana Vernon dinna door doubt Dougal duke e'en eneugh English escape eyes father the deacon fear frae Galbraith gang Garschattachin gaun gentlemen gien Glasgow gude hand haud head heard Hieland Highland honest honour horses Inglewood Jacobite Jarvie Jarvie's kend kinsman Kirk Loch Loch Lomond look Lowland MacGregor mair maun mind Miss Vernon Mons Meg mony morning muckle mysell naething never Nicol night onything Osbaldistone Hall Owen ower person plaid prisoner puir Rashleigh replied Rob Roy Sassenach Scotch Scotland seemed siller Sir Frederick speak sporran stranger suld sword Syddall tell thae there's thought tion tolbooth tone Tresham voice wad hae wadna waur weel whilk wild winna ye hae
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Page 24 - And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me ; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein ; And he spread it before me ; and it was written within and without : and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
Page 93 - And hears him rustling in the wood, and sees His course at distance by the bending trees ; And thinks, Here comes my mortal enemy, And either he must fall in fight, or I...
Page 275 - But the heather that I have trod upon when living must bloom ower me when I am dead; my heart would sink, and my arm would shrink and wither like fern in the frost, were I to lose sight of my native hills; nor has the world a scene, that would console me for the loss of the rocks and cairns, wild as they are, that you see around us.
Page 134 - ... them nowadays. But it's an ill wind blaws naebody gude — Let ilka ane roose the ford as they find it — I say, Let Glasgow flourish ! whilk is judiciously and elegantly putten round the town's arms, by way of byword.
Page 26 - Looking tranquillity ! it strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart.
Page 24 - sa brave kirk ; nane o' yere whigmaleeries and curliewurlies and opensteek hems about it, — a' solid, weel-jointed masonwark, that will stand as lang as the warld, keep hands and gunpowther aff it. It had amaist a douncome lang syne at the Reformation, when they pu'd doun the kirks of St. Andrews and Perth, and there-awa', to cleanse them o...
Page 269 - I speak of all this?" he said, sitting down again, and in a calmer tone. " Only ye may opine it frets my patience, Mr. Osbaldistone, to be hunted like an otter, or a sealgh, or a salmon upon the shallows, and that by...
Page 269 - And they shall find," he said, in the same muttered but deep tone of stifled passion, " that the name they have dared to proscribe — that the name of MacGregor — is & spell to raise the wild devil withaL They shall hear of my vengeance, that would scorn to listen to the story of my wrongs. The miserable Highland drover, bankrupt, barefooted, stripped of all...
Page 38 - I'll tell thee; On the Rialto, every night at twelve, I take my evening's walk of meditation ; There we two will meet, and talk of precious Mischief Jaf.
Page 25 - Glasgow, they were feared their auld edifice might slip the girths in gaun through siccan rough physic, sae they rang the common hell, and assembled the train-bands wi" took o' drum, — by good luck, the worthy James Rabat was Dean o...