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" ... stone, stood glimmering in the moonlight, like the sheeted spectre of some huge giant. A wilder, or more disconsolate dwelling, it was perhaps difficult to conceive. The sombrous and heavy sound of the billows, successively dashing against the rocky... "
The Eclectic Review - Page 437
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Analectic Magazine, and Naval Chronicle, Volume 14

Books - 1819 - 544 pages
...giant. A wilder, or more disconsolate dwelling, it was perhaps difficult to conceive. The sombrous and heavy sound of the billows, successively dashing...about this forlorn abode, excepting that one, and only one, of the narrow and staunchelled windows which appeared at irregular heights and distances...
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The bride of Lammermoor

Sir Walter Scott - Arranged marriage - 1819 - 350 pages
...giant. A wilder, or more disconsolate dwelling, it was perhaps difficult to conceive. The sombrous and heavy sound of the billows, successively dashing...about this forlorn abode, excepting that one, and only one, of the narrow and staunchelied windows which appeared at irregular heights and distances...
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The Analectic Magazine...: Comprising Original Reviews, Biography ..., Volume 14

1819 - 532 pages
...giant. A wilder, or more disconsolate dwelling, it was perhaps difficult to conceive. The sombrous and heavy sound of the billows, successively dashing...symbol of unvaried and monotonous melancholy, not unminglecl with horror. Although the night was not far advanced, there was no sign of living inhabitant...
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Tales of My Landlord,.: The bride of Lammermoor

Walter Scott - Covenanters - 1819 - 352 pages
...giant. A wilder, or more disconsolate dwelling, it was perhaps difficult to conceive. The sombrous and heavy sound of the billows, successively dashing...ear what the landscape was to the eye— a symbol ef unvaried and monotonous melancholy, not unmingled with horror. Although the night was not far advanced,...
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Tales of My Landlord: 3d ser

Walter Scott - English fiction - 1822 - 268 pages
...perhaps difficult to conceive.. The sombrous and heavy sound of the billows, successively (lashing against the rocky beach at a profound distance beneath, was to the ear what the landscape was to the eye—a symbol of unvaried and monotonous UK lancholy, not unminglcd with horror. Although the night...
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Bride of Lammermoor

Walter Scott - 1823 - 376 pages
...giant. A wilder, or more disconsolate dwelling, it was perhaps difficult to conceive. The sombrous and heavy sound of the billows, successively dashing...about this forlorn abode, excepting that one, and only one, of the narrow and staunchelled windows which appeared at irregular heights and distances...
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New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection, Moral ..., Volume 3, Parts 5-6

Richard Alfred Davenport - Conduct of life - 1827 - 404 pages
...huge giant. A wilder or more disconsolate dwelling it was perhaps difficult to conceive. The sombrous and heavy sound of the billows, successively dashing...there was no sign of living inhabitant about this forVOL. III. D lorn abode, excepting that one, and only one, of the narrow and staunchelled windows,...
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New elegant extracts; a selection from the most eminent prose and ..., Volume 3

New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 410 pages
...huge giant. A wilder or more disconsolate dwelling it was perhaps difficult to conceive. The sombrous and heavy sound of the billows, successively dashing...there was no sign of living inhabitant about this forVOL. HI. D lorn abode, excepting that one, and only one, of the narrow and staunchelled windows,...
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New elegant extracts; a selection from the most eminent prose and ..., Volume 3

New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 404 pages
...huge giant. A wilder or more disconsolate dwelling it was perhaps difficult to conceive. The sombrous and heavy sound of the billows, successively dashing...beneath, was to the ear what the landscape was to the eye—a symbol of unvaried and monotonous melancholy, not unmingled with horror. Although the night...
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The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His ..., Volume 3

Walter Scott - English literature - 1833 - 852 pages
...giant. A wilder, or more disconsolate dwelling, it was perhaps difficult to conceive. The sombrous and heavy sound of the billows, successively dashing...symbol of unvaried and monotonous melancholy, not unmingjcd with horror. Although the night was not far advanced, there was no sign of living inhabitant...
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