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Page 95
... hope still that all was not meant so ill as it seemed to us , my worthy neighbours ; and I for one would cheerfully forgive the alarm and dis- turbance to my poor house , providing the Fair City were not brought into jeopardy for me . I ...
... hope still that all was not meant so ill as it seemed to us , my worthy neighbours ; and I for one would cheerfully forgive the alarm and dis- turbance to my poor house , providing the Fair City were not brought into jeopardy for me . I ...
Page 105
... hope to resist him , when , as was his usual mode of combat , he threw himself on board at the head of his followers . Wallace smiled sternly , while the master of the ship , with alarm in his countenance and tears in his eyes ...
... hope to resist him , when , as was his usual mode of combat , he threw himself on board at the head of his followers . Wallace smiled sternly , while the master of the ship , with alarm in his countenance and tears in his eyes ...
Page 127
... hope you have no more grave errand than to try if the malvoisie holds its flavour ? ' The city delegates answered to their provost's civili- ties by inclinations and congees , more or less character- istic , of which the pottingar's bow ...
... hope you have no more grave errand than to try if the malvoisie holds its flavour ? ' The city delegates answered to their provost's civili- ties by inclinations and congees , more or less character- istic , of which the pottingar's bow ...
Page 144
... hope . ' ' For gallantly , my liege , I know little of such qualities . For peacefully , there were three or four men , two cruelly wounded , came this morning before daylight to ask the privilege of girth and sanctuary , pursued by a ...
... hope . ' ' For gallantly , my liege , I know little of such qualities . For peacefully , there were three or four men , two cruelly wounded , came this morning before daylight to ask the privilege of girth and sanctuary , pursued by a ...
Page 151
... hope in him , Robin , from time to time , that are well worth cherishing . He is young very young a prince , and in the heyday of his blood . We will have patience with him like a good rider with a hot - tempered horse . Let him exhaust ...
... hope in him , Robin , from time to time , that are well worth cherishing . He is young very young a prince , and in the heyday of his blood . We will have patience with him like a good rider with a hot - tempered horse . Let him exhaust ...
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Page 203 - 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...
Page 111 - Have a care he does not hear you say so,' said the smith. 'I tell thee, bonnet-maker, that there is more danger in yonder slight wasted anatomy than in twenty stout fellows like yourself.
Page 304 - LANG hae thought, my youthfu' friend, A something to have sent you, Tho' it should serve nae ither end Than just a kind memento ; But how the subject theme may gang, Let time and chance determine ; Perhaps, it may turn out a sang, Perhaps, turn out a sermon.
Page 49 - Each robber chief upheld his armed halls, Doing his evil will, nor less elate Than mightier heroes of a longer date. What want these outlaws conquerors should have? But History's purchased page to call them great? A wider space, an ornamented grave? Their hopes were not less warm, their souls were full as brave.
Page 460 - What's property ? dear Swift ! you see it alter From you to me, from me to Peter Walter; Or, in a mortgage, prove a lawyer's share; Or, in a jointure, vanish from the heir...