Waverley Novels: The fair maid of Perth. Anne of GeiersteinR. Cadell, 1846 - Historical fiction, Scottish |
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... Earl Doug- las at the Battle of Otter- burn ... Dickes .. Dickes .... 259 Borders . . . 271 Gorway ... 272 Allom 279 The Court Yard of the Palace of Falkland , as in the Seventeenth Cen- tury .. .... Slezer Ancient Gateway to Scone ...
... Earl Doug- las at the Battle of Otter- burn ... Dickes .. Dickes .... 259 Borders . . . 271 Gorway ... 272 Allom 279 The Court Yard of the Palace of Falkland , as in the Seventeenth Cen- tury .. .... Slezer Ancient Gateway to Scone ...
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... . Tony Johannot Dickes . . . 528 T. S. Boys ... Dickes . Volmar . T. S. Boys . Dickes . Interview of the Earl of Oxford with Charles the Bold .. Subject . Drawn by Engraved by Page Monumental Pillar , LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS .
... . Tony Johannot Dickes . . . 528 T. S. Boys ... Dickes . Volmar . T. S. Boys . Dickes . Interview of the Earl of Oxford with Charles the Bold .. Subject . Drawn by Engraved by Page Monumental Pillar , LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS .
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... Earl of Rossis dochter , he had Elizabeth Mure ( of Rowallan ) in place of his wife . In the thrid year of King Robert deceasit Euphame his Queen ; and he incontinent marryit Elizabeth , lemman afore rehearsit , for the affection that ...
... Earl of Rossis dochter , he had Elizabeth Mure ( of Rowallan ) in place of his wife . In the thrid year of King Robert deceasit Euphame his Queen ; and he incontinent marryit Elizabeth , lemman afore rehearsit , for the affection that ...
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... Earl of Gowrie ran in from the High Street ; ' whereas the Earl's house stood in that part of the town now known as the South Street . This circumstance will explain how the Smith had to pass St. Ann's Chapel and St. John's Church on ...
... Earl of Gowrie ran in from the High Street ; ' whereas the Earl's house stood in that part of the town now known as the South Street . This circumstance will explain how the Smith had to pass St. Ann's Chapel and St. John's Church on ...
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... Earl of Douglas ; and the Earl and the Lord , and the Laird and I the Esquire , fly our hawks where we find our game , and ask no man whose ground we ride over . " I will do your message , sir , " replied Oliver Proudfute , meekly ...
... Earl of Douglas ; and the Earl and the Lord , and the Laird and I the Esquire , fly our hawks where we find our game , and ask no man whose ground we ride over . " I will do your message , sir , " replied Oliver Proudfute , meekly ...
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Page 295 - So spoke, in the emphatic words of Scripture, the helpless and bereft father, tearing his gray beard and hoary hair, while Albany, speechless and conscience-struck, did not venture to interrupt the tempest of his grief. But the agony of the King's sorrow almost instantly changed to...
Page 105 - 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 mountain-pipe, so fill the mountaineers With the fierce native daring which instils The stirring memory of a thousand years, And Evan's, Donald's fame rings in each clansman's ears!