The Waverley Novels, Volume 21Oxford University Press, 1912 |
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acquainted answered Mowbray attend auld Aultoun better betwixt Bindloose brother called Captain Jekyl Captain MacTurk Cargill character Clara Mowbray Cleikum countenance daughter dear desire devil doctor Dods door dress Earl of Etherington endeavoured eyes favour fear feelings fellow fortune Fox Hotel Francis Tyrrel gentleman give guest hand Hartley heard honest hope horse India Lady Binks Lady Penelope ladyship Lawford look Lord Etherington lordship marriage Martigny matter maun means Meiklewham Menie Gray mind Miss Mowbray Monçada morning Mowbray of Saint Mowbray's mutchkin never occasion perhaps person poor postilion present puir Quackleben quarrel recollection replied Richard Middlemas Saint Ronan's Scotland Scrogie seemed Shaws Castle Sir Bingo Binks sister Solmes speak stranger suppose sure tell thing thou thought Tipú tone Touchwood turn Valentine Bulmer walk weel Winterblossom wish woman word yonder young Zilia
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Page 295 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Page 25 - Air-castle — and they have a' their different turns, and some can clink verses, wi' their tale, as weel as Rob Burns or Allan Ramsay — and some rin up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stanes to pieces wi...
Page 286 - The topsail-yards point to the wind, boys, See all clear to reef each course ; Let the foresheet go, don't mind, boys, Though the weather should be worse. Fore and aft the...
Page 291 - ... fires enlighten all the cave: Hell from below, and Juno from above, And howling nymphs were conscious to their love.
Page 345 - Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend. Yet still he fills affection's eye, Obscurely wise and coarsely kind; Nor, letter'd arrogance, deny Thy praise to merit unrefined.
Page 345 - His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void : And sure the Eternal Master found The single talent well employed.