The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations, Volume 6Conner & Cooke, 1833 - English literature |
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... hundred years , and I am fended the second wall so well , that the Scots and came round the end of the wall by sea , in boats made about to tell you the reason why the land was so Picts could not break through it , though they often ...
... hundred years , and I am fended the second wall so well , that the Scots and came round the end of the wall by sea , in boats made about to tell you the reason why the land was so Picts could not break through it , though they often ...
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... hundred years , during which time , with one or two brief interruptions , the nations lived in great harmony together . This was greatly to the happiness of both , and might in time have led to their becoming one people , for which ...
... hundred years , during which time , with one or two brief interruptions , the nations lived in great harmony together . This was greatly to the happiness of both , and might in time have led to their becoming one people , for which ...
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... hundred Galloway men were along with the animal , and guided by it . Bruce thought of going back to awaken his men ; but then he thought it might be some shepherd's dog . " My men , " he said , tired ; I will not disturb their sleep for ...
... hundred Galloway men were along with the animal , and guided by it . Bruce thought of going back to awaken his men ; but then he thought it might be some shepherd's dog . " My men , " he said , tired ; I will not disturb their sleep for ...
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... hundred and fifty English troops and garrisons . The most distin- horsemen to this farm - house , according to the in - guished of these was the good Lord James of Dou- structions that the King had left with them at parting . glas ...
... hundred and fifty English troops and garrisons . The most distin- horsemen to this farm - house , according to the in - guished of these was the good Lord James of Dou- structions that the King had left with them at parting . glas ...
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... hundred chosen men , embarked at Dundee , in a merchant vessel commanded by one William Curry . The shipmaster on their arrival at Leith , went with a party of his sailors to the Castle , carrying barrels of wine and hampers of ...
... hundred chosen men , embarked at Dundee , in a merchant vessel commanded by one William Curry . The shipmaster on their arrival at Leith , went with a party of his sailors to the Castle , carrying barrels of wine and hampers of ...
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