Works, Volume 20Houghton Mifflin, 1923 |
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... received from young and old the homage due to his velvet jerkin and his gold chain , while the well - known beauty of Catharine , though con- cealed beneath her screen which resembled the man- tilla still worn in Flanders - called both ...
... received from young and old the homage due to his velvet jerkin and his gold chain , while the well - known beauty of Catharine , though con- cealed beneath her screen which resembled the man- tilla still worn in Flanders - called both ...
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... received . As he unloosed the leathern jacket from his neck and shoulders , the manly and muscular form which they displayed was not more remarkable than the fairness of his skin , where it had not , as in hands and face , been exposed ...
... received . As he unloosed the leathern jacket from his neck and shoulders , the manly and muscular form which they displayed was not more remarkable than the fairness of his skin , where it had not , as in hands and face , been exposed ...
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... receiving assistance from his volition ' cast from you , I say , the art which is a snare to you . Abjure the fabrication of weapons which can only be useful to abridge human life , already too short for repentance , or to encourage ...
... receiving assistance from his volition ' cast from you , I say , the art which is a snare to you . Abjure the fabrication of weapons which can only be useful to abridge human life , already too short for repentance , or to encourage ...
Page 52
... thus , he dealt the stranger a blow with his weapon , which would probably have made his words good , had not the man , raising his arm , received on his hand the blow meant for his head . The wound 52 WAVERLEY NOVELS.
... thus , he dealt the stranger a blow with his weapon , which would probably have made his words good , had not the man , raising his arm , received on his hand the blow meant for his head . The wound 52 WAVERLEY NOVELS.
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... receiving and repaying hard blows . It is sad to tell , Catharine , how many of my sins that Blind Harry the Minstrel hath to answer for . When I hit a downright blow , it is not so save me , St. John ! to do any man injury , but only ...
... receiving and repaying hard blows . It is sad to tell , Catharine , how many of my sins that Blind Harry the Minstrel hath to answer for . When I hit a downright blow , it is not so save me , St. John ! to do any man injury , but only ...
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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...