The Handy Volume "Waverley" ...: The fair maid of PerthBradbury, Agnew, 1877 |
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... feeling of respect induced passengers to give way to the father and daughter . But when the steel caps , barrets , and plumes , of squires , archers , and men - at - arms , began to be seen among the throng , the wearers of these ...
... feeling of respect induced passengers to give way to the father and daughter . But when the steel caps , barrets , and plumes , of squires , archers , and men - at - arms , began to be seen among the throng , the wearers of these ...
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... feeling exceeded in degree what might have been felt by a young person towards a friend and inmate of the same age , with whom she had lived on habits of intimacy . " Thou hast had a long journey , son Henry , " said Glover , who had ...
... feeling exceeded in degree what might have been felt by a young person towards a friend and inmate of the same age , with whom she had lived on habits of intimacy . " Thou hast had a long journey , son Henry , " said Glover , who had ...
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... feelings , had summoned tears . " Weep not , " she said , " or rather weep on -- but weep as those who have hope . Abjure the sins of pride and anger , which most easily beset thee - fling from thee the accursed weapons , to the fatal ...
... feelings , had summoned tears . " Weep not , " she said , " or rather weep on -- but weep as those who have hope . Abjure the sins of pride and anger , which most easily beset thee - fling from thee the accursed weapons , to the fatal ...
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... feeling of safety those whom fear might otherwise prevent from risking themselves in peril . The art of forming arms , whether offensive or defensive , is alike sinful in one to whose violent and ever vehement disposition the very ...
... feeling of safety those whom fear might otherwise prevent from risking themselves in peril . The art of forming arms , whether offensive or defensive , is alike sinful in one to whose violent and ever vehement disposition the very ...
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... feeling , that , though her doctrines were new to him , they might not , nevertheless , be entirely erroneous . He felt , indeed , a wish that his proposed son - in - law should not commit himself voluntarily to the hazards which the ...
... feeling , that , though her doctrines were new to him , they might not , nevertheless , be entirely erroneous . He felt , indeed , a wish that his proposed son - in - law should not commit himself voluntarily to the hazards which the ...
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Page 92 - Isabel, I suppose you mean," answered the Smith. " Ay — Isabel, or Jezabel, — all the same, you know. But here comes Bailie Craigdallie at last, with that poor, creeping, cowardly creature, the Pottingar.
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