Waverley Novels: The fair maid of Perth. Anne of GeiersteinR. Cadell, 1846 - Historical fiction, Scottish |
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... lord , " said the old man , " I would remind you , that this is good St. Valentine's Eve , which is no time for business , and that I can have your worshipful commands by a serving - man as early as it pleases you to send them ...
... lord , " said the old man , " I would remind you , that this is good St. Valentine's Eve , which is no time for business , and that I can have your worshipful commands by a serving - man as early as it pleases you to send them ...
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... lord ; my father but now told me that hawks , far less eagles , pair not with the humble linnet . Seek some court lady , to whom your favours will be honour ; to me your highness must permit me to speak the plain truth - they can be ...
... lord ; my father but now told me that hawks , far less eagles , pair not with the humble linnet . Seek some court lady , to whom your favours will be honour ; to me your highness must permit me to speak the plain truth - they can be ...
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... lord nor loon save to our Provost alone . " As the Bonnet - maker spoke , there was heard on the left hand , the cry ... lords - men who live so near the Southron , that the black jack is never off their backs , and who are as free of ...
... lord nor loon save to our Provost alone . " As the Bonnet - maker spoke , there was heard on the left hand , the cry ... lords - men who live so near the Southron , that the black jack is never off their backs , and who are as free of ...
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... Lord , and the Laird and I the Esquire , fly our hawks where we find our game , and ask no man whose ground we ride ... Lords . The great estates of the family are still nearly entire , and in worthy hands ; they have passed to a younger ...
... Lord , and the Laird and I the Esquire , fly our hawks where we find our game , and ask no man whose ground we ride ... Lords . The great estates of the family are still nearly entire , and in worthy hands ; they have passed to a younger ...
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... lord ; I only graced this fellow with the full title , for indeed he called himself the Devil's Dick , and said he was a Johnstone , and a follower of the lord of that name . But I put him back into the bog , and recovered my hawking ...
... lord ; I only graced this fellow with the full title , for indeed he called himself the Devil's Dick , and said he was a Johnstone , and a follower of the lord of that name . But I put him back into the bog , and recovered my hawking ...
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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!