The Waverley Novels: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions, Volume 5Carey & Hart, 1849 |
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... Smith , Esq . , & c . The cloth being removed , " Non Nobis Domine " was sung by Messrs . Thorne , Swift , Collier , and Hartley , after which the following toasts were given from the chair : - " The King " -all the honours . " The Duke ...
... Smith , Esq . , & c . The cloth being removed , " Non Nobis Domine " was sung by Messrs . Thorne , Swift , Collier , and Hartley , after which the following toasts were given from the chair : - " The King " -all the honours . " The Duke ...
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... Smith - for , as has been said , such was the craft of this sturdy artisan - was encouraged modest- ly to salute the Fair Maid , who yielded the courtesy with a smile of affection that might have become a sister , saying , at the same ...
... Smith - for , as has been said , such was the craft of this sturdy artisan - was encouraged modest- ly to salute the Fair Maid , who yielded the courtesy with a smile of affection that might have become a sister , saying , at the same ...
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... Smith , confess the truth - how many brawls hast thou had since erossing the Tay ? " Nay , now you do me wrong , father , to ask me such a question " ( glancing a look at Catharine ) " in such a presence , " answered the armourer ; " I ...
... Smith , confess the truth - how many brawls hast thou had since erossing the Tay ? " Nay , now you do me wrong , father , to ask me such a question " ( glancing a look at Catharine ) " in such a presence , " answered the armourer ; " I ...
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... Smith , said Catharine , " it is a little hard to expect us to mournfully ; " I might have guessed I should have think or speak of any thing else . I will grant you , my old luck , and spread strife and bloodshed where I my father ...
... Smith , said Catharine , " it is a little hard to expect us to mournfully ; " I might have guessed I should have think or speak of any thing else . I will grant you , my old luck , and spread strife and bloodshed where I my father ...
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... Smith had hitherto vourable colours , had laid his head down on the table , led him to incur too readily ; and so far he would upon his folded arms , in an attitude of the deepest de- rather have desired that Catharine's arguments ...
... Smith had hitherto vourable colours , had laid his head down on the table , led him to incur too readily ; and so far he would upon his folded arms , in an attitude of the deepest de- rather have desired that Catharine's arguments ...
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The Waverley Novels: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions, Volume 5 Walter Scott No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 108 - Know that you may, if it be God's will, gain our barren and rugged mountains; but, like our ancestors of old, we will seek refuge in wilder and more distant solitudes, and when we have resisted to the last, we will starve in the icy wastes of the Glaciers — ay, men, women, and children, we will be frozen into annihilation together, ere one free Switzer will acknowledge a foreign master.