The Waverley Novels: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions, Volume 5Carey & Hart, 1849 |
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Page 74
... daugh- ter , his perpetual attendant and companion . Besides this dutiful child , the Laird's Jock had an only son , upon whom devolved the perilous task of leading the clan to battle , and maintaining the war- like renown of his native ...
... daugh- ter , his perpetual attendant and companion . Besides this dutiful child , the Laird's Jock had an only son , upon whom devolved the perilous task of leading the clan to battle , and maintaining the war- like renown of his native ...
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... daugh- ter had scarce recommended to her lover the fabrica- tion of the implements of husbandry , than , feeling the certainty of being right , of which in the earlier part of their debate he had been somewhat doubtful , the father ...
... daugh- ter had scarce recommended to her lover the fabrica- tion of the implements of husbandry , than , feeling the certainty of being right , of which in the earlier part of their debate he had been somewhat doubtful , the father ...
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... daugh- one eye , " said Henry . " I have two , but they are 1er off to the mountains . It is too evil usage - not to both set in my forehead , and so I could not see be- be suffered , neighbour Crookshank , -not to be en - hind my back ...
... daugh- one eye , " said Henry . " I have two , but they are 1er off to the mountains . It is too evil usage - not to both set in my forehead , and so I could not see be- be suffered , neighbour Crookshank , -not to be en - hind my back ...
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... daugh- Charteris , " since I am for Perth myself . Look you , ters ' sleeping chambers , as if they were in a bordel at honest burghers and good neighbours of Perth . You Paris . A party of reiving night - walkers , courtiers , may have ...
... daugh- Charteris , " since I am for Perth myself . Look you , ters ' sleeping chambers , as if they were in a bordel at honest burghers and good neighbours of Perth . You Paris . A party of reiving night - walkers , courtiers , may have ...
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... daugh- ter upon which at the time he reposed for counsel and ter , might aspire to raise her to the bed of the Duke assistance . And when he disused the advice of one of Rothsay . of his family , and employed the counsel of another , it ...
... daugh- ter upon which at the time he reposed for counsel and ter , might aspire to raise her to the bed of the Duke assistance . And when he disused the advice of one of Rothsay . of his family , and employed the counsel of another , it ...
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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.