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... noble , but the lower part of the face was less happily formed . The mouth was large , and well furnished with a set of firm and beautiful teeth , the appearance of which corresponded with the air of per- sonal health and muscular ...
... noble , but the lower part of the face was less happily formed . The mouth was large , and well furnished with a set of firm and beautiful teeth , the appearance of which corresponded with the air of per- sonal health and muscular ...
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... noble - minded , good , and generous , though widely mistaken man . Thy faults are those of this cruel and remorseless age , thy virtues all thine own . ' While she thus spoke , she laid her hand upon the smith's arm , and extricating ...
... noble - minded , good , and generous , though widely mistaken man . Thy faults are those of this cruel and remorseless age , thy virtues all thine own . ' While she thus spoke , she laid her hand upon the smith's arm , and extricating ...
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... noble kings and progenitors , as being their loving liegemen ? And would you have us now yield up our rights , privileges , and immunities , our outfang and infang , our hand - habend , our back - bearand , and our blood - suits , and ...
... noble kings and progenitors , as being their loving liegemen ? And would you have us now yield up our rights , privileges , and immunities , our outfang and infang , our hand - habend , our back - bearand , and our blood - suits , and ...
Page 58
... noble lieges should be thus treated by the knights and nobles of his deboshed court . And this I call push- ing our cause warmly . ' ' Warmly , sayst thou ? ' replied the old burgess ; ' why , so warmly , that we shall all die of cold ...
... noble lieges should be thus treated by the knights and nobles of his deboshed court . And this I call push- ing our cause warmly . ' ' Warmly , sayst thou ? ' replied the old burgess ; ' why , so warmly , that we shall all die of cold ...
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... noble knights , gentle squires and pages , stout men - at - arms , and others that wear the weapons which we make . It is natural I should like the Ruthvens , the Lindsays , the Ogilvys , the Oliphants , and so many others of our brave ...
... noble knights , gentle squires and pages , stout men - at - arms , and others that wear the weapons which we make . It is natural I should like the Ruthvens , the Lindsays , the Ogilvys , the Oliphants , and so many others of our brave ...
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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...