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... perhaps impossible to clear up thoroughly this controversy , little interesting in itself , at least to readers on this side of Inverness . The names , as we have them in Wyntoun , are ' Clan- whewyl ' and ' Clachinya , ' the latter ...
... perhaps impossible to clear up thoroughly this controversy , little interesting in itself , at least to readers on this side of Inverness . The names , as we have them in Wyntoun , are ' Clan- whewyl ' and ' Clachinya , ' the latter ...
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... perhaps the world , can afford , is , or rather we may say was , the prospect from a spot called the Wicks of Baiglie , being a species of niche at which the traveller arrived , after a long stage from Kinross , through a waste and ...
... perhaps the world , can afford , is , or rather we may say was , the prospect from a spot called the Wicks of Baiglie , being a species of niche at which the traveller arrived , after a long stage from Kinross , through a waste and ...
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... perhaps have that effect in setting off the imperfections of the compo- sition which ladies suppose a fine set of china to possess in heightening the flavour of indifferent tea.1 The period at which I propose to commence is , how- ever ...
... perhaps have that effect in setting off the imperfections of the compo- sition which ladies suppose a fine set of china to possess in heightening the flavour of indifferent tea.1 The period at which I propose to commence is , how- ever ...
Page 14
... relying on the impunity which their masters ' court favour was too apt to secure them . It was , perhaps , in apprehension of mischief from some character of this kind , that Conachar , stepping up 14 WAVERLEY NOVELS.
... relying on the impunity which their masters ' court favour was too apt to secure them . It was , perhaps , in apprehension of mischief from some character of this kind , that Conachar , stepping up 14 WAVERLEY NOVELS.
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... Perhaps it was wrong in me to faint and interrupt , it may be , the further progress of a fair fray . My apology is , that I cannot bear the sight of blood . ' - ' And is this the manner , ' said her father , ' in which you receive my ...
... Perhaps it was wrong in me to faint and interrupt , it may be , the further progress of a fair fray . My apology is , that I cannot bear the sight of blood . ' - ' And is this the manner , ' said her father , ' in which you receive my ...
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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...