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Page 56
The chase then showed Hamburgh colours , and returned the fire ; and a running
fight was maintained for three hours , when , just as the lugger was doubling the
Point of Warroch , they observed that the main - yard was shot in the slings , and
...
The chase then showed Hamburgh colours , and returned the fire ; and a running
fight was maintained for three hours , when , just as the lugger was doubling the
Point of Warroch , they observed that the main - yard was shot in the slings , and
...
Page 59
It was , then , in the month of November , about seventeen years after the
catastrophe related in the last chapter , that , during a cold and stormy night , a
social group had closed round the kitchen fire of the Gordon Arms at
Kippletringan , a ...
It was , then , in the month of November , about seventeen years after the
catastrophe related in the last chapter , that , during a cold and stormy night , a
social group had closed round the kitchen fire of the Gordon Arms at
Kippletringan , a ...
Page 337
The branches were laid so loosely above each other , that , looking through them
towards the light of the fire - grate , they could easily discover what passed in its
vicinity , although a much stronger degree of illumination than it afforded would ...
The branches were laid so loosely above each other , that , looking through them
towards the light of the fire - grate , they could easily discover what passed in its
vicinity , although a much stronger degree of illumination than it afforded would ...
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