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... caused a traverse , as it is called ( that is , a temporary screen of boards ) , to be drawn along the under part of the ante - room , a few feet from the door , so as to separate the place stained with the blood from the rest of the ...
... caused a traverse , as it is called ( that is , a temporary screen of boards ) , to be drawn along the under part of the ante - room , a few feet from the door , so as to separate the place stained with the blood from the rest of the ...
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... cause for his interference ; but it was not difficult to discern , by the earnest attention which he paid to Catharine Glover , that it was to her , rather than to her father , that he desired to dedicate his good offices . Generally ...
... cause for his interference ; but it was not difficult to discern , by the earnest attention which he paid to Catharine Glover , that it was to her , rather than to her father , that he desired to dedicate his good offices . Generally ...
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... cause for it , he called out to the man whose motions had occasioned the alarm , and who stood still , though he seemed to keep out of reach of the light . ' Come , step forward , my friend , and do not play at bo - peep ; knowest thou ...
... cause for it , he called out to the man whose motions had occasioned the alarm , and who stood still , though he seemed to keep out of reach of the light . ' Come , step forward , my friend , and do not play at bo - peep ; knowest thou ...
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... cause of the burgh ? And shouldst not thou , of all women , deem thyself honoured and glorious , that so true a heart and so strong an arm has termed himself thy bachelor ? In what do the proudest dames take their loftiest pride , save ...
... cause of the burgh ? And shouldst not thou , of all women , deem thyself honoured and glorious , that so true a heart and so strong an arm has termed himself thy bachelor ? In what do the proudest dames take their loftiest pride , save ...
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Sir Walter Scott. - to speak comfort to Henry , without betraying the sacred cause of the truths I have just told you ... caused for the moment to resemble inspiration . ' The truth of Heaven , ' she said , in a solemn tone , ' was never ...
Sir Walter Scott. - to speak comfort to Henry , without betraying the sacred cause of the truths I have just told you ... caused for the moment to resemble inspiration . ' The truth of Heaven , ' she said , in a solemn tone , ' was never ...
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Page 203 - 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...
Page 111 - Have a care he does not hear you say so,' said the smith. 'I tell thee, bonnet-maker, that there is more danger in yonder slight wasted anatomy than in twenty stout fellows like yourself.
Page 304 - LANG hae thought, my youthfu' friend, A something to have sent you, Tho' it should serve nae ither end Than just a kind memento ; But how the subject theme may gang, Let time and chance determine ; Perhaps, it may turn out a sang, Perhaps, turn out a sermon.
Page 49 - Each robber chief upheld his armed halls, Doing his evil will, nor less elate Than mightier heroes of a longer date. What want these outlaws conquerors should have? But History's purchased page to call them great? A wider space, an ornamented grave? Their hopes were not less warm, their souls were full as brave.
Page 460 - 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...