Waverley Novels: The fair maid of Perth. Anne of GeiersteinR. Cadell, 1846 - Historical fiction, Scottish |
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... Knight of Croftangry , who braved the fury of the London ' prentice bold , ' in behalf of the fair Dame Policy , and the memorial of Rizzio's slaughter ! Is it not a pity , cousin , consider- ing the feat of chivalry was otherwise so ...
... Knight of Croftangry , who braved the fury of the London ' prentice bold , ' in behalf of the fair Dame Policy , and the memorial of Rizzio's slaughter ! Is it not a pity , cousin , consider- ing the feat of chivalry was otherwise so ...
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... knights and ladies , our abbots , monks , and priests themselves , so earnestly crowd to see ? Is it not to behold ... knight ; and has the boldest in Scotland done more gallant deeds than my brave son Henry , though but of low degree ...
... knights and ladies , our abbots , monks , and priests themselves , so earnestly crowd to see ? Is it not to behold ... knight ; and has the boldest in Scotland done more gallant deeds than my brave son Henry , though but of low degree ...
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... , retired to her sleeping apartment ,. Whence cometh Smith , be he knight , lord , or squire , But from the smith that forged in the fire ? VERSTEGAN . What's all this turmoil cramm'd into our parts ? Faith. Chapter the Chur. ...
... , retired to her sleeping apartment ,. Whence cometh Smith , be he knight , lord , or squire , But from the smith that forged in the fire ? VERSTEGAN . What's all this turmoil cramm'd into our parts ? Faith. Chapter the Chur. ...
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... knight , it is true , and a gentleman of free and true - born blood , as we all know , since Wallace's time , who settled his great - grandsire amongst us . But if he were the proudest nobleman in the land , he is the Provost of Perth ...
... knight , it is true , and a gentleman of free and true - born blood , as we all know , since Wallace's time , who settled his great - grandsire amongst us . But if he were the proudest nobleman in the land , he is the Provost of Perth ...
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... Knight of Kinfauns will do his devoir by the burgh in peace or war ; and it is needless to be reckoning the town's good deeds , till we see him thankless for them . " " So say I , " cried our friend Proudfute , from the top of his mare ...
... Knight of Kinfauns will do his devoir by the burgh in peace or war ; and it is needless to be reckoning the town's good deeds , till we see him thankless for them . " " So say I , " cried our friend Proudfute , from the top of his mare ...
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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!