Waverley Novels, Volume 2A. & C. Black, 1852 - Historical fiction, Scottish |
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Page 44
... were accumulated upon capitals , moveable bonds became heritable , and law charges were heaped upon all ; though Ellangowan possessed so little the spirit of a litigant , that he was on two occasions charged to 44 WAVERLEY NOVELS .
... were accumulated upon capitals , moveable bonds became heritable , and law charges were heaped upon all ; though Ellangowan possessed so little the spirit of a litigant , that he was on two occasions charged to 44 WAVERLEY NOVELS .
Page 61
... ruins , and asserted , from size and situation , the superiority which its founders were said once to have possessed among the chiefs and nobles of the district . In other places , the shore was of a more GUY MANNERING . 61.
... ruins , and asserted , from size and situation , the superiority which its founders were said once to have possessed among the chiefs and nobles of the district . In other places , the shore was of a more GUY MANNERING . 61.
Page 75
... possessed of the judicial authority which he had so much longed for , than he began to exercise it with more severity than mercy , and totally belied all the opinions which had hitherto been formed of his inert good nature . We have ...
... possessed of the judicial authority which he had so much longed for , than he began to exercise it with more severity than mercy , and totally belied all the opinions which had hitherto been formed of his inert good nature . We have ...
Page 106
... possessed themselves of the person of the child Harry Bertram . Every exertion was now made to discover the criminals . Suspicion hesitated between the smugglers and the gipsies . The fate of Dirk Hatteraick's vessel was certain . Two ...
... possessed themselves of the person of the child Harry Bertram . Every exertion was now made to discover the criminals . Suspicion hesitated between the smugglers and the gipsies . The fate of Dirk Hatteraick's vessel was certain . Two ...
Page 139
... possessed of a quarter part of this sum , though it was not above twenty guineas , " took counsel , " as he expressed himself , " how he should demean himself with respect unto the fine gold " thus left in his charge . Fortunately he ...
... possessed of a quarter part of this sum , though it was not above twenty guineas , " took counsel , " as he expressed himself , " how he should demean himself with respect unto the fine gold " thus left in his charge . Fortunately he ...
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Allonby answered appearance Astrologer auld Aweel bairn better called Captain castle character Charles Hazlewood circumstances Colonel Mannering counsellor Dandie dear Derncleugh deyvil Dinmont Dirk Hatteraick Dominie Sampson door Ellangowan eyes father favour fear feelings fellow frae Frank Kennedy gentleman gipsy Glossin Guy Mannering hand head heard heart honour hope horse Julia justice justice of peace Kennedy Kippletringan Laird Liddesdale light look Lord Lucy Bertram lugger Mac-Candlish Mac-Guffog Mac-Morlan mair Mannering's Matilda maun Merrilies Mervyn's mind Miss Bertram Miss Mannering morning muckle never night observed occasion ower person Pleydell poor Portanferry postilion prisoner recollection replied round ruin scene Scotland seemed Singleside smugglers stranger suppose tell there's thought turned Vanbeest Brown voice Warroch weel window woman wood Woodbourne ye'll young Hazlewood young lady younker
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Page 143 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 407 - Bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word, which madness Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace, Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass, but my madness speaks.
Page 40 - Methinks, my moiety, north from Burton here, In quantity equals not one of yours. See, how this river comes me cranking in, And cuts me, from the best of all my land, A huge half moon, a monstrous cantle out.
Page 322 - Vandyke, and surrounded with books, the best editions of the best authors, and in particular, an admirable collection of classics. * These,' said Pleydell, ' are my tools of trade. A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason ; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Page 90 - if she has not been cutting the young ashes in the Dukit park ! " — The Laird made no answer, but continued to look at the figure which was thus perched above his path.
Page 56 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Page 136 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the, knell of my departed hours : Where are they?
Page 122 - God, the Maker of all laws, Who hath commanded us we should not kill, And yet we say we must, for Reputation ! What honest man can either fear his own, Or else will hurt another's reputation ? Fear to do base unworthy things is valour ; If they be done to us, to suffer them Is valour too.
Page 90 - ... their bits o' bields, to sleep with the tod and the black-cock in the muirs ! Ride your ways, Ellangowan. Our bairns are hinging at our weary backs ; look that your braw cradle at hame be the fairer spread up ; not that...
Page 265 - A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears : see how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?