Annie O' the Banks O' DeeF. V. White & Company, 1899 - 312 páginas |
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... Weel mounted on his grey mare , Meg , A better never lifted leg , Tam skelpit on through dub and mire , Despising wind and rain and fire , Whiles holding fast his gude blue bonnet , Whiles crooning o'er some auld Scots sonnet . " Yes ...
... Weel mounted on his grey mare , Meg , A better never lifted leg , Tam skelpit on through dub and mire , Despising wind and rain and fire , Whiles holding fast his gude blue bonnet , Whiles crooning o'er some auld Scots sonnet . " Yes ...
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Aberdeen ADELINE SERGEANT Annie arms Author beautiful BEDFORD STREET Bilberry Hall blood boat bonnie cannibals canoes Captain Dickson child cloud Craig Nicol cried dark dead dear deck delighted EDWARD KENNARD eyes face Fanny fear fellow fire Flower Islanders friends G. R. SIMS GEORGE GRIFFITH girl gold gone Good-bye grief guns hand happy heard heart Highland hills HUME NISBET Ilda island Isle of Flowers Jeannie Jeannie Lee JOHN STRANGE WINTER ladies lads Laird Fletcher Laird M'Leod lassie laughing look M'Gregor maid married Matty morning mountain murder never night old Laird once Oscar pearls poor Queen Bertha Reginald Grahame rifles round sail sailors Sandie Sandie's savages scoria seen ship shore Shufflin smiled soon spear sweet tears tell terrible told took trees uncle wave wild WILLIAM LE QUEUX Wolverine Woman yacht young
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Página 36 - That's sweetly played in tune. As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I: And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a' the seas gang dry: Till a
Página 151 - The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around: It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound!
Página 86 - Nae cotillion brent new frae France, But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunker in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o...
Página 206 - ... he always took it out of the gunroom, that he might give half of it to the other. So, d'ye see, my boys, as I said before I began my yarn, that danger makes friends,
Página 248 - He put a new song in my mouth, our God to magnify: Many shall see it, and shall fear, and on the Lord rely.
Página 174 - God is our refuge and our strength, In straits a present aid ; Therefore, although the earth remove, We will not be afraid ; Though hills amidst the seas be cast ; Though waters roaring make, And troubled be ; yea though the hills By swelling seas do shake.
Página 163 - And the rain pour'd down from one black cloud The moon was at its edge. The thick black cloud was cleft, and still The Moon was at its side : Like waters shot from some high crag, The lightning...
Página 52 - ... two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.