Waverley Novels: The fair maid of Perth. Anne of GeiersteinR. Cadell, 1846 - Historical fiction, Scottish |
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... turning them on the anvil or grindstone ; and they slandered me to your daughter Catharine , that led her to suspect the quietest burgess in Perth of being a brawler . I wish the best of them would dare say such a word at the Hill of ...
... turning them on the anvil or grindstone ; and they slandered me to your daughter Catharine , that led her to suspect the quietest burgess in Perth of being a brawler . I wish the best of them would dare say such a word at the Hill of ...
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... turn monk and retire from the world , but while I live in it I must practise my trade ; and while I form armour and weapons for others , I cannot myself withstand the temptation of using them . You would not reproach me as you do , if ...
... turn monk and retire from the world , but while I live in it I must practise my trade ; and while I form armour and weapons for others , I cannot myself withstand the temptation of using them . You would not reproach me as you do , if ...
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... turning his eyes eastward , and eyeing the firmament , in which no slight shades of grey were beginning to flicker , to announce the approach of dawn , however distant , which , to the impatience of the stout armourer , seemed on that ...
... turning his eyes eastward , and eyeing the firmament , in which no slight shades of grey were beginning to flicker , to announce the approach of dawn , however distant , which , to the impatience of the stout armourer , seemed on that ...
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... " replied the old burgess ; " why , so warmly , that we shall all die of cold , man , before the porter turn a key to let us into the royal presence.— Come , friends , the night is bitter - we THE FAIR MAID OF PERTH . 39.
... " replied the old burgess ; " why , so warmly , that we shall all die of cold , man , before the porter turn a key to let us into the royal presence.— Come , friends , the night is bitter - we THE FAIR MAID OF PERTH . 39.
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... turning haughtily towards the Smith , " that I have also a reckoning to hold with you . ” " Keep at arm's - length , then , " said Henry , extending his brawny arm , - " I will have no more close hugs - no more bodkin work , like last ...
... turning haughtily towards the Smith , " that I have also a reckoning to hold with you . ” " Keep at arm's - length , then , " said Henry , extending his brawny arm , - " I will have no more close hugs - no more bodkin work , like last ...
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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!