Waverley Novels: The fair maid of Perth. Anne of GeiersteinR. Cadell, 1846 - Historical fiction, Scottish |
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... . + Sir Magnus Redman , sometime Governor of Berwick , fell in one of the battles on the Border , which followed on the treason of the Earl of March , alluded to hereafter . 66 Nay , now you do me wrong , father THE FAIR MAID OF PERTH . 23.
... . + Sir Magnus Redman , sometime Governor of Berwick , fell in one of the battles on the Border , which followed on the treason of the Earl of March , alluded to hereafter . 66 Nay , now you do me wrong , father THE FAIR MAID OF PERTH . 23.
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... march in circumstances of pressing difficulty in the Ulster campaign , because a poor lavendere ( washerwoman ) was taken with the pains of childbirth , and must have been left , had he proceeded , to the mercy of the Irish kernes , is ...
... march in circumstances of pressing difficulty in the Ulster campaign , because a poor lavendere ( washerwoman ) was taken with the pains of childbirth , and must have been left , had he proceeded , to the mercy of the Irish kernes , is ...
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... March , who possessed by himself or his vassals , a great part of the eastern frontier , was preferred to other competitors ; and his daughter was , with the mutual good - will of the young couple , actually contracted to the Duke of ...
... March , who possessed by himself or his vassals , a great part of the eastern frontier , was preferred to other competitors ; and his daughter was , with the mutual good - will of the young couple , actually contracted to the Duke of ...
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... March . But his feelings towards these various characters were so mixed and complicated , that from time to time they showed entirely different from what they really were ; and according to the interest which had been last exerted over ...
... March . But his feelings towards these various characters were so mixed and complicated , that from time to time they showed entirely different from what they really were ; and according to the interest which had been last exerted over ...
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... March and the haughty Douglas , that Albany had sown dissension between his royal brother and the heir to the Scottish throne , perhaps to clear the way for the succession of his own family ? —No , my liege - I can sacrifice my life to ...
... March and the haughty Douglas , that Albany had sown dissension between his royal brother and the heir to the Scottish throne , perhaps to clear the way for the succession of his own family ? —No , my liege - I can sacrifice my life to ...
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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!