The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations, Volume 4Conner & Cooke, 1833 |
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... live in Fairyland as in the Ward of Farring- don - Without . My apprentices are turned into mere goblins - they appear and disappear like spunkies , and have no more regularity in them than a watch without a scapement . If there is a ...
... live in Fairyland as in the Ward of Farring- don - Without . My apprentices are turned into mere goblins - they appear and disappear like spunkies , and have no more regularity in them than a watch without a scapement . If there is a ...
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... live in the memory of the Scottish people . " I should have been of your opinion , " answered Lord Nigel , in the same tone as before ; " but there is no fighting with facts . " 66 " What was the tenor of this Supplication ? " said ...
... live in the memory of the Scottish people . " I should have been of your opinion , " answered Lord Nigel , in the same tone as before ; " but there is no fighting with facts . " 66 " What was the tenor of this Supplication ? " said ...
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... live by lending money as well as by selling plate .. I am ambitious to put a hundred pounds to be at in- terest in ... lives - ah ! wo is me ! and well - a - day ! -But I am patient and thankful ; and for the wealth God has sent me , it ...
... live by lending money as well as by selling plate .. I am ambitious to put a hundred pounds to be at in- terest in ... lives - ah ! wo is me ! and well - a - day ! -But I am patient and thankful ; and for the wealth God has sent me , it ...
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... live person has to do with a coffin . As little as a ghost with a lan- tern , I trow . " " What reason , " repeated Nigel , " can a creature , so young and so beautiful , have already habitually to contemplate her bed of last long rest ...
... live person has to do with a coffin . As little as a ghost with a lan- tern , I trow . " " What reason , " repeated Nigel , " can a creature , so young and so beautiful , have already habitually to contemplate her bed of last long rest ...
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... live - Let Janet fling it out of the window , or keep it for my father's morning draught ; and she shall bring you the pottle of sack that was set ready for him - good man , he will never find out the difference , for ale will wash down ...
... live - Let Janet fling it out of the window , or keep it for my father's morning draught ; and she shall bring you the pottle of sack that was set ready for him - good man , he will never find out the difference , for ale will wash down ...
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