Waverley Novels ...: The fair maid of PerthBlack, 1853 |
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... blood upon the floor . " These are the stains , " she said ; " nothing will remove them from the place there they have been for two hundred and fifty years , and there they will remain while the floor is left standing -neither water nor ...
... blood upon the floor . " These are the stains , " she said ; " nothing will remove them from the place there they have been for two hundred and fifty years , and there they will remain while the floor is left standing -neither water nor ...
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... blood - boltered , like Banquo's ghost , when to remove them would have cost but a hundred drops of the Infallible Detergent Elixir , prepared and sold by Messrs . Scrub and Rub , in five shilling and ten shilling bottles , each bottle ...
... blood - boltered , like Banquo's ghost , when to remove them would have cost but a hundred drops of the Infallible Detergent Elixir , prepared and sold by Messrs . Scrub and Rub , in five shilling and ten shilling bottles , each bottle ...
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... blood of Rizzio , I take up the gauntlet , and maintain against all and sundry , that I hold the stains to be of no modern date , but to have been actually the consequence and the record of that ter- rible assassination . " " As I ...
... blood of Rizzio , I take up the gauntlet , and maintain against all and sundry , that I hold the stains to be of no modern date , but to have been actually the consequence and the record of that ter- rible assassination . " " As I ...
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... blood - stains would have disappeared in course of time , I apprehend that if measures to efface them were not taken immediately after the affair happened - if the blood , in other words , were allowed to sink into the wood , the stain ...
... blood - stains would have disappeared in course of time , I apprehend that if measures to efface them were not taken immediately after the affair happened - if the blood , in other words , were allowed to sink into the wood , the stain ...
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... blood of Douglas , but which in his veins is sullied with illegitimacy . Paint him the ruthless , the daring , the ambitious so near greatness , yet debarred from it — so near to wealth , yet excluded from possessing it - a political ...
... blood of Douglas , but which in his veins is sullied with illegitimacy . Paint him the ruthless , the daring , the ambitious so near greatness , yet debarred from it — so near to wealth , yet excluded from possessing it - a political ...
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answered armourer arms Bailie Craigdallie betwixt blood Bonnet-maker Bonthron brother burgh burghers called Carthusian Castle Catharine Glover Church citizens Clan Chattan Clan Quhele combat Conachar daughter door Douglas Duke of Albany Duke of Rothsay Dwining Eachin Earl Earl of Douglas Earl of March Eviot eyes Fair City Fair Maid fear feud follow glee-maiden Grace hand hath hauberk hear heard heart Heaven Henbane Henry Gow Henry Smith Highland honest honour Kinfauns knight liege Loch Tay look lord Lord of Douglas Louise MacIan Maid of Perth maiden matter monk neighbour never noble Oliver Proudfute Palm Sunday Perth poor Prince Prince of Scotland Provost Ramorny's replied royal Saint Scotland seemed Simon Glover Sir John Ramorny Sir Patrick Charteris speak spoke sword tell thee thou art thou hast thought Torquil voice woman word wounded yonder
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Page 132 - Cameron's gathering' rose! The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard, and heard, too, have her Saxon foes: How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their mountain-pipe, so fill the mountaineers With the fierce native daring which instils The stirring memory of a thousand years, And Evan's, Donald's fame rings in each clansman's ears!
Page 80 - Isabel, I suppose you mean," answered the Smith. "Ay — Isabel or Jezabel — all the same, you know. But here comes Bailie Craigdallie at last, with that poor, creeping, cowardly creature the Pottingar.