The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations, Volume 4Conner & Cooke, 1833 |
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Page 14
... tell me next , you have at Edinburgh as fine a navigable river as the Thames , with all its shipping ? " these southern parts - Guy , I think his name was , - and he has great reputation here for slaying dun cows , and boars , and such ...
... tell me next , you have at Edinburgh as fine a navigable river as the Thames , with all its shipping ? " these southern parts - Guy , I think his name was , - and he has great reputation here for slaying dun cows , and boars , and such ...
Page 19
... tell him where I lived , you knave ? " said the Lord Nigel , angrily . " Sdeath ! I shall have every clownish burgher from Edinburgh come to gaze on my distress , and pay a shilling for having seen the Motiont of the poor Noble ! " " Tell ...
... tell him where I lived , you knave ? " said the Lord Nigel , angrily . " Sdeath ! I shall have every clownish burgher from Edinburgh come to gaze on my distress , and pay a shilling for having seen the Motiont of the poor Noble ! " " Tell ...
Page 23
... tell my story - and , to speak plainly , for I never could carry a lie well through in my life - it is most fitting , that , to solicit this matter properly , your lordship should go to Court in a man- ner beseeming your quality . I am ...
... tell my story - and , to speak plainly , for I never could carry a lie well through in my life - it is most fitting , that , to solicit this matter properly , your lordship should go to Court in a man- ner beseeming your quality . I am ...
Page 24
... tell Scots Janet to tell pretty consideration , who , being understood to travel with Mistress Margaret , my god - child , she must put her a charge , as it was called , might otherwise have been father in remembrance to put on his best ...
... tell Scots Janet to tell pretty consideration , who , being understood to travel with Mistress Margaret , my god - child , she must put her a charge , as it was called , might otherwise have been father in remembrance to put on his best ...
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... tell you but what all human beings allege to be truth , that dwell within hue and cry of Lombard - street - that lady , or quean , or what- ever you choose to call her , has been dead in the body these many a year , though she haunts ...
... tell you but what all human beings allege to be truth , that dwell within hue and cry of Lombard - street - that lady , or quean , or what- ever you choose to call her , has been dead in the body these many a year , though she haunts ...
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