The Waverley Novels: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions, Volume 1Carey & Hart, 1844 |
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... rendered as tough as whip- down about the toun , without doing a single turn , cord by constant exercise . He was dressed carelessly , unless trimming the laird's fishing - wand , or busking and more like a Frenchman than an Englishman ...
... rendered as tough as whip- down about the toun , without doing a single turn , cord by constant exercise . He was dressed carelessly , unless trimming the laird's fishing - wand , or busking and more like a Frenchman than an Englishman ...
Page 48
... rendered palatable , steaks , suddenly flung upon the fire , which sank with a hiss- coals , were supplied in liberal abundance , and disap- ing noise , and with it disappeared the light it had peared before Evan Dhu and their host with ...
... rendered palatable , steaks , suddenly flung upon the fire , which sank with a hiss- coals , were supplied in liberal abundance , and disap- ing noise , and with it disappeared the light it had peared before Evan Dhu and their host with ...
Page 54
... rendered a man- than may defend my own or my friend's property , gled and rueful spec.cle . Lower down still , the when the country is troubled with such men as your victuals seemed of yet coarser quality , though suffi- tast night's ...
... rendered a man- than may defend my own or my friend's property , gled and rueful spec.cle . Lower down still , the when the country is troubled with such men as your victuals seemed of yet coarser quality , though suffi- tast night's ...
Page 61
... rendered lence and solitude , and the Chiefs , with their fol- incapable of expostulation , and who indeed saw no lowers , amused themselves with various pastimes , in chance of its being attended to , submitted in silence . which the ...
... rendered lence and solitude , and the Chiefs , with their fol- incapable of expostulation , and who indeed saw no lowers , amused themselves with various pastimes , in chance of its being attended to , submitted in silence . which the ...
Page 62
... renders it tions were applied to the injured limb , and new spells not improbable that they may have been the ances ... rendered inexpressibly painful , Waverley was hospitably re- ceived into the house of a gentleman related to Fer ...
... renders it tions were applied to the injured limb , and new spells not improbable that they may have been the ances ... rendered inexpressibly painful , Waverley was hospitably re- ceived into the house of a gentleman related to Fer ...
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Page 143 - There is no European nation which, within the course of half a century or little more, has undergone so complete a change as this kingdom of Scotland. The effects of the insurrection of 1745, — the destruction of the patriarchal power of the Highland chiefs, the abolition of the heritable jurisdictions of the Lowland nobility and barons, the total eradication of the Jacobite party, which, averse to intermingle with the English or adopt their customs, long...
Page 110 - And he will refit the old library in the most exquisite Gothic taste, and garnish its shelves with the rarest and most valuable volumes; and he will draw plans and landscapes, and write verses, and rear temples, and dig grottoes; and he will stand in a clear summer night in the colonnade before the hall, and gaze on the deer as they stray in the moonlight, or lie shadowed by the boughs of the huge old fantastic oaks; and he will repeat verses to his beautiful wife, who will hang upon his arm; —...
Page 21 - ... became visible on the bosom of the sea, before the gale was felt on shore. The mass of waters, now dark and threatening, began to lift itself in larger ridges, and sink in deeper furrows, forming waves that rose high in foam upon the breakers, or burst upon the beach with a sound resembling distant thunder. Appalled by this sudden change of weather, Miss Wardour drew close to her father, and held his arm fast.
Page 17 - And though the number of them be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of this present great distress, yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of those vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or subjection either to the laws of the land, or even those of God and nature ; fathers incestuously accompanying with their own daughters, the son with the mother, and the brother with the sister.