Works, Volume 20Houghton Mifflin, 1923 |
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... young nobleman retired in one direction , his friends or followers going off in another . Simon Glover , before he entered the church , cast a look towards the group , but had taken his place among the congregation before they separated ...
... young nobleman retired in one direction , his friends or followers going off in another . Simon Glover , before he entered the church , cast a look towards the group , but had taken his place among the congregation before they separated ...
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... young mountaineer indicated some inter- est on the part of the former in the conduct of the latter , it would have puzzled the strictest observer to discover whether that feeling exceeded in degree what might have been felt by a young ...
... young mountaineer indicated some inter- est on the part of the former in the conduct of the latter , it would have puzzled the strictest observer to discover whether that feeling exceeded in degree what might have been felt by a young ...
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... young man's throat , being the part which came readiest to his grasp , as Conachar arose from the pretended stumble , and pressing it severely as he cast the lad from him , exclaimed , ' Had this been in another place , young gal- lows ...
... young man's throat , being the part which came readiest to his grasp , as Conachar arose from the pretended stumble , and pressing it severely as he cast the lad from him , exclaimed , ' Had this been in another place , young gal- lows ...
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... young to do battle , I would even walk quietly after you , not doubt- ing , with the tools I had about me , to bring any one to reason that might disturb you in your way home . You know that yourself discovered me , and drew me into the ...
... young to do battle , I would even walk quietly after you , not doubt- ing , with the tools I had about me , to bring any one to reason that might disturb you in your way home . You know that yourself discovered me , and drew me into the ...
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... young fellow — a likely one , I promise you - so nigh to Catharine , as if there were no other than your daughter to serve him for a schoolmistress . ' - ' Fie , my son fie ; now you are jealous , ' said Simon , ' of a poor young fellow ...
... young fellow — a likely one , I promise you - so nigh to Catharine , as if there were no other than your daughter to serve him for a schoolmistress . ' - ' Fie , my son fie ; now you are jealous , ' said Simon , ' of a poor young fellow ...
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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...