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Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance Alan Fairford Alan's answered Arthuret auld Benjie betwixt brandy brother called cause court Crackenthorp Cristal Nixon Crosbie danger Darsie Latimer door doubt drink endeavoured eyes Fairladies Father Buonaventure fear fellow Foxley gauntlet Geddes gentleman give gudesire hand hast head heard heart Herries hinny honour hope horse Jacobite James Wilkinson Joshua Justice lady laird lawyer length letter Lilias look Lord manner matter maun Maxwell mind Mount Sharon mutchkin Nanty Ewart never night observed occasion once ower party passed perhaps person Peter Peebles poor present provost Quaker recollection Redgauntlet replied Samuel Griffiths Scotland Scottish seemed Shepherd's Bush Sir John Sir Richard Solway Solway Firth speak Steenie Summertrees suppose tell thee thou thought tion tone Trumbull turned uncle voice walk weel Whigs Willie wish word young
Pasajes populares
Página 149 - ... incarnate. Weel, my gudesire was nae manager — no that he was a very great misguider — but he hadna the saving gift, and he got twa terms' rent in arrear. He got the first brash at Whitsunday put ower wi...
Página 151 - Primrose-Knowe, as behind the hand with his mails and duties. Sir Robert gave my gudesire a look, as if he would have withered his heart in his bosom. Ye maun ken he had a way of bending his brows, that men saw the visible mark of a horse-shoe in his forehead, deep-dinted, as if it had been stamped there. 'Are ye come light-handed, ye son of a toom whistle ?
Página 147 - He wasna a bad master to his ain folk, though, and was weel aneugh liked by his tenants ; and as for the lackies and troopers that raid out wi...
Página 152 - ... the order of the grand funeral. Now, Dougal looked aye waur and waur when night was coming, and was aye the last to gang to his bed, whilk was in a little round just opposite the chamber of dais, whilk his master occupied while he was living, and where he now lay in state, as they caa'd it, weel,a,day!
Página 162 - And there was Claverhouse, as beautiful as when he lived, with his long, dark, curled locks, streaming down over his laced buff-coat, and his left hand always on his right spule-blade, to hide the wound that the silver bullet had made.* He sat apart from them all, and looked at them with a melancholy, haughty countenance; while the rest hallooed, and sung, and laughed, that the room rang.
Página 167 - John, when he had riped the turret weel, led my gudesire into the dining-parlour, and took him by the hand and spoke kindly to him, and said he was sorry he should have doubted his word and that he would hereafter be a good master to him to make amends.
Página 105 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
Página 27 - My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer, A-chasing the wild deer and following the roe — My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go!
Página 146 - Dalyell's. Glen, nor dargle, nor mountain, nor cave could hide the puir hill-folk when Redgauntlet was out with bugle and bloodhound after them, as if they had been s,ae mony deer. And troth, when they fand them, they didna mak muckle mair ceremony than a Hielandman wi' a roebuck. It was just, " Will ye tak the test ? " — if not, " Make ready — present — fire ! " — and there lay the recusant.
Página 310 - God bless the King !— God bless the Faith's defender ! God bless — No harm in blessing the Pretender. Who that Pretender is, and who that King, — God bless us all I — is quite another thing.