Waverley Novels, Volume 19A. & C. Black, 1853 |
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Abbess Amelot ancient answered arms attendants Baldringham barbed horses Ben Cruachan betwixt blood bosom called castle character command Constable Constable of Chester countenance Croftangry Dame Gillian Damian de Lacy danger daughter death defend Dunbarton Edinburgh Elspat Eveline Berenger Eveline's eyes faith Father Aldrovand favour fear feelings Fleming Flemish Garde Doloureuse Genvil give Glentanner Guarine Gwenwyn Hamish hand hast hastily hath hear heard heart Heaven Highland Holy honour horse Hugo de Lacy Jorworth King Lady Eveline Loch Awe look lord maiden mangonel manner master minstrel mistress monk mother never night noble Norman occasion Oldbuck passed perhaps person Prelate present Prince proposed purpose Raoul Raymond Berenger rendered replied Rose Saxon Scotland seemed shew soldier speak spoke sword thee thou art thought tion tone Vidal voice Waverley Novels Welsh Welshman Wilkin Flammock words young youth
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Page 220 - With fancied roses, than the unblemished moon Before her wane begins on heaven's blue coast ; Thy Image falls to earth. Yet some, I ween, Not unforgiven the suppliant knee might bend, As to a visible Power, in which did blend All that was mixed and reconciled in Thee Of mother's love with maiden purity, Of high with low, celestial with terrene...
Page 410 - What's property ? dear Swift ! you see it alter From you to me, from me to Peter Walter; Or, in a mortgage, prove a lawyer's share; Or, in a jointure, vanish from the heir...
Page 138 - A horse ;' and then, with a sigh more like the wind than breath, she vanished, and to me her body looked more like a thick cloud than substance.