One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear, When they reached the hall door, and the charger stood near; So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung ! — "She is won ! we are gone, over bank, bush, and... The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott - Page 243by Walter Scott - 1852 - 580 pagesFull view - About this book
| James W. Gousseff - Pantomimes - 1981 - 236 pages
...word in her ear, When they reached the hall-door, and the charger stood near; So light to the croup the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before...sprung! 'She is won! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur; They 11 have fleet steeds that follow, ' quoth young Lochinvar. There was mounting 'mong Graemes... | |
| Francis Parkman - History - 1991 - 1012 pages
...touch to her hand, and one word in her ear. When they reach'd the hall-door, and the charger stxxxl near; So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung....sprung! 'She is won! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur; They'll have fleet steeds that follow,' quoth young Lockinvar." MARMION. A CANADIAN came from... | |
| S. W. Fallon - Foreign Language Study - 2000 - 690 pages
...crouching at one's feet. Kill ke pairan Croup, n. putthä; pura; chutar; dum-gazä. So light to the croup the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung. W. Scott. Aise sahaj mtii began pvtthe pe di bithi,. Aue .» i/i'ii men ztn pe age khud a charhi. FC... | |
| Michael Harrison, Christopher Stuart-Clark - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2004 - 166 pages
...with young Lochinvar. One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear, When they reach'd the hall-door, and the charger stood near; So light to the croupe...sprung! 'She is won! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur; They'll have fleet steeds that followj quoth young Lochinvar. There was mounting 'mong Graemes... | |
| Jo Beverley - Fiction - 2004 - 692 pages
...the way to the coach, like Lochinvar snatching his beloved from her wedding. So light to the croup the fair lady he swung. So light to the saddle before...sprung! "She is won! We are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur; They'll have fleet steeds that follow, " quoth young Lochinvar. And that, of course, was the... | |
| Steven Price - Reference - 2006 - 400 pages
...fillies of the surge And the white horses of the windy plain. — Roy Camphell, Horses on the Camargue So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung, So...sprung! "She is won! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur,They'll have fleet steeds that follow," quoth young Lochinvar. — Sir Walter Scott, "Marmion"... | |
| Anne Gracie - Fiction - 2008 - 372 pages
...his horse's hooves. One touch to her hand and one word in her ear, When they reach 'd the hall-door, and the charger stood near; So light to the croupe...swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung! She was no fair Ellen from a poem. Nor anyone's bride. Her note had told him to fetch the authorities,... | |
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