 | Walter Scott - Poetry, English - 1857 - 428 pages
...Confessor, Harold, and Norman William, reigned in England. I speak of it, because it was the last house I saw in those parts ; for I was the space of twelve days after, before I saw either house, corn-field, or habitation for any creature, but deer, wild-horses, wolves, and such like creatures,... | |
 | Walter Scott - Poetry, English - 1857 - 364 pages
...Confessor, Harold, and Norman William, reigned in England. I speak of it, because it was the last house I saw in those parts ; for I was the space of twelve days after, before I saw either house, corn-field, or habitation for any creature, but deer, wild horses, wolves, and such like creatures,... | |
 | John Grant (of Glencairn.) - 1861 - 240 pages
...Confessor, Harold, and Norman William, reigned in England. I speak of it because it was the last house I saw in those parts; for I was the space of twelve days after before I saw either house, cornfield, or habitation for any creature but cleer, wild horses, wolves, and suchlike creatures, which... | |
 | James Alexander Robertson - 1865 - 442 pages
...Scotland when Edward the Confessor, Harold, and Norman William raigned in England; I speak of it, because it was the last house that I saw in those parts ; for I was the space of twelve dayes after, before I saw either house, conic-field, or habitation for any creature, but deere, wild... | |
 | James Alexander Robertson - Clans - 1866 - 612 pages
...Scotland when Edward the Confessor, Harold, and Norman William raigned in England; I speak of it, because it was the last house that I saw in those parts ; for I was the space of twelve dayes after, before I saw either house, cornc-field, or habitation for any creature, but doere, wild... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1866 - 656 pages
...Harold, and Norman reigned in England. I speak of it, because it was the last house I saw in those pans ; for I was the space of twelve days after before I saw cither house, corn-field, or habitation for any creature, but deer, wild horses, wolves, and such like... | |
 | Cheshire (England) - 1867 - 694 pages
...twelve days, after [leaving an old castle in Braemar,] "before I saw either house or corn-field, " or habitation for any creature but deer, wild horses, wolves, and such like " creatures, — wh made me doubt that I should never have seen a house again." | They brought bym unto the lodge... | |
 | Elizabeth Taylor (novelist.) - Highlands (Scotland) - 1869 - 386 pages
...Confessor, Harold, and Norman William reigned in England. I speak of it because it was the last house I saw in those parts ; for I was the space of twelve days after before I saw either house or corn-field, or habitation for any creature but deer, wild horses, wolves, and such like creatures,... | |
 | Abraham Hume - Great Britain - 1869 - 126 pages
...twelve days, after [leaving an old castle in Braemar,] "before I saw either house or corn-field, " or habitation for any creature but deer, wild horses, wolves, and such like " creatures, — wh made me doubt thatl should never have seen a house again." 25 laws of property. His own biography... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Great Britain - 1870 - 552 pages
...Scotland when Edward the Confessor, Harold, and Norman William reigned in England : I speak of it because it was the last house that I saw in those parts ;...space of twelve days after, before I saw either house, corn-field, or habitation of any creature, but deer, wild horses, wolves, and such like creatures,... | |
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I was the space of twelve days after, before I saw either house, corn-field, or habitation for any creature, but deer, wild horses, wolves, and such like creatures, — which made me doubt that I should never have seen a house again. 
