Tales from ScottRoberts, 1895 - 315 pages |
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Allan M'Aulay amongst Annot Lyle announced answer apartment approached arms Athelstane attended Bailie Nicol Jarvie Bertram Black Knight Bois-Guilbert Bothwell Bradwardine Burley Captain castle Cedric Charles Hazlewood Claverhouse Colonel command companion consent Cuddie Dalgetty daughter Dinmont door Dousterswivel Dwarf Earnscliff Edward Ellangowan engaged exclaimed father Fergus followed Frank gipsy Glenallan Glossin Guy Mannering hall hand Hatteraick Hazlewood heard Highland honour horse Ivanhoe Laird leave letter looked Lord Evandale Lovel Lucy Mac-Ivor Mannering Marquis Master of Ravenswood Menteith Miss Bellenden Miss Mannering Miss Vere Miss Vernon Montrose morning Morton Ochiltree Old Mortality Oldbuck once opened Osbaldistone party passed portmanteau prisoner Rashleigh reached Rebecca recognised returned Rob Roy rode Rowena Saxon Scotland seemed shortly Sir Arthur Sir William smuggler soldiers soon stood stranger sword Templar thee thou Tillietudlem told took turned voice Wamba Wardour Waverley Woodbourne words wounded young
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Page 1 - I have been watching it — it fascinates my eye — it never stops — page after page is finished and thrown on that heap of MS., and still it goes on unwearied — and so it will be till candles are brought in, and God knows how long after that. It is the same every night — I can't stand a sight of it when I am not at my books".
Page 46 - I am wishing ill to little Harry, or to the babe that's yet to be born — God forbid— and make them kind to the poor, and better folk than their father.— And now, ride e'en your ways; for these are the last words ye'll ever hear Meg Merrilies speak, and this is the last reise that I'll ever cut in the bonny woods of Ellangowan.
Page 282 - Without alighting from his horse, the conqueror called for a bowl of wine, and opening the beaver, or lower part of his helmet, announced that he quaffed it, " To all true English hearts, and to the confusion of foreign tyrants." He then commanded his trumpet to sound a defiance to the challengers, and desired a herald to announce to them, that he should make no election, but was willing to encounter them in the order in which they pleased to advance against him. The gigantic...
Page 259 - The woods in which we had dwelt pleasantly, rustled their green leaves in the song, and our streams were there with the sound of all their waters.
Page 46 - There's thirty hearts there that wad hae wanted bread ere ye had wanted sunkets,* and spent their life-blood ere ye had scratched your finger. Yes- — -there's thirty yonder, from the auld wife of an hundred to the babe that was born last week, that ye have turned out o
Page 282 - If we do not,' said the Disinherited Knight, 'the fault shall not be mine. On foot or horseback, with spear, with axe, or with sword, I am alike ready to encounter thee.
Page 223 - When the last Laird of Ravenswood to Ravenswood shall ride, And woo a dead maiden to be his bride, He shall stable his steed in the Kelpie's flow, And his name shall be lost for evermoe ! " "I know the Kelpie's flow well enough...
Page 174 - ... seventy paces. He whose ball brought down the mark, held the proud title of Captain of the Popinjay for the remainder of the day, and was usually escorted in triumph to the most reputable change-house in the neighbourhood, where the evening was closed with conviviality, conducted under his auspices, and, if he was able to sustain it, at his expense.
Page 85 - ... altogether sunk below the horizon, and an early and lurid shade of darkness blotted the serene twilight of a summer evening. The wind began next to arise ; but its wild and moaning sound was heard for some time, and its effects became visible on the bosom of the sea, before the gale was felt on shore.