Redgauntlet: A Tale of the Eighteenth Century, Volúmenes1-2Samuel H. Parker, 1834 |
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... hope that he would have been found free from the love of prerogative and desire of arbitrary power , which characterised his unhappy grandfather . He gave a no- table instance how far this was the leading feature of REDGAUNTLET .
... hope that he would have been found free from the love of prerogative and desire of arbitrary power , which characterised his unhappy grandfather . He gave a no- table instance how far this was the leading feature of REDGAUNTLET .
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... hope , or to suspect ? -that he have been a natural son of a first cousin of the then Fairford of that Ilk ; who had been long numbered among the minor barons . Now my father mounted a step higher on the ladder of legal promotion ...
... hope , or to suspect ? -that he have been a natural son of a first cousin of the then Fairford of that Ilk ; who had been long numbered among the minor barons . Now my father mounted a step higher on the ladder of legal promotion ...
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... hope that I should not disarrange his family , I once more dropped a hint of my desire to make compensation for any trouble I might occasion . The man answered very coldly , " Your presence will no doubt give me trouble , sir , but it ...
... hope that I should not disarrange his family , I once more dropped a hint of my desire to make compensation for any trouble I might occasion . The man answered very coldly , " Your presence will no doubt give me trouble , sir , but it ...
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... hope that no delay would intervene between the platter and the lip . As this thought came across me , the man who had conducted the horse to the stable entered the apartment , and discovered to me a countenance yet more uninvit- ing ...
... hope that no delay would intervene between the platter and the lip . As this thought came across me , the man who had conducted the horse to the stable entered the apartment , and discovered to me a countenance yet more uninvit- ing ...
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... hope you see no appearance of it , sir , " he replied , with cold civility . " What inconvenience a family so re- tired as ours may suffer from receiving an unexpected guest , is like to be trifling , in comparison of what the vis- iter ...
... hope you see no appearance of it , sir , " he replied , with cold civility . " What inconvenience a family so re- tired as ours may suffer from receiving an unexpected guest , is like to be trifling , in comparison of what the vis- iter ...
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Redgauntlet: A Tale of the Eighteenth Century Walter Scott (sir).),Sir Walter Scott Vista completa - 1832 |
Términos y frases comunes
affairs Alan Fairford Alan's answered Arthuret auld Benjie betwixt brother called cause Court Crackenthorp Cristal Nixon Crosbie danger Darsie Latimer dearest door doubt drink Dumfries duty endeavoured eyes father favour gudesire hand heard heart Heaven Herries hinny honour hope horse Jacobite James James Wilkinson John Davies Justice lady Laird learned length letter Lilias look Lord manner matter maun mind morning Mount Sharon Nanty Ewart ne'er-do-weel never night occasion once paper patria potestas Peebles against Plainstanes perhaps person Poor Peter Peebles precognition present Provost Quaker received recollection Redgauntlet replied Sallust Saunders Fairford Scotland seemed Shepherd's Bush silly fool Sir Richard Solway son's speak Steenie Summertrees tell thee thing thirlage thou thought tion tone trust turned uncle walk weel Willie wish word young gentleman
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Página 87 - Advocate MacKenyie, who, for his worldly wit and wisdom, had been to the rest as a god. 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 spuleblade, to hide the wound that the silver bullet had made.
Página 194 - 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 87 - 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 spuleblade, 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 80 - ... jackanape, that was a special pet of his ; a cankered beast it was, and mony an ill-natured trick it played — ill to please it was, and easily angered — ran about the haill castle, chattering and yowling, and pinching, and biting folk, specially before ill weather, or disturbances in the state.
Página 81 - 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 16 - A hard and harsh countenance; eyes far sunk under projecting eyebrows, which were grizzled like his hair; a wide mouth, furnished from ear to ear with a range of unimpaired teeth of uncommon whiteness, and a size and breadth which might have become the jaws of an ogre, completed this delightful portrait.
Página 87 - Redgauntlet. There was the fierce Middleton, and the dissolute Rothes, and the crafty Lauderdale; and Dalyell, with his bald head and a beard to his girdle; and Earlshall, with Cameron's blude on his hand; and wild Bonshaw, that tied blessed Mr. Cargill's limbs till the blude sprung; and Dumbarton Douglas, the twice-turned traitor baith to country and king.
Página 87 - ... a wild set in his day. At last they parted, and my gudesire was to ride hame through the wood of Pitmurkie, that is a' fou of black firs, as they say. — I ken the wood, but the firs may be black or white for what I can tell. — At the entry of the wood there is a wild common, and on the edge of the common, a little lonely change-house, that was keepit then by...
Página 85 - Laird, sighing deeply, and putting his napkin to his een, "his was a sudden call, and he will be missed in the country; no time to set his house in order -weel prepared...
Página 82 - Dougal ; in flew the liverymen ; yell on yell gied the laird, ilk ane mair awfu' than the ither. My gudesire knew not whether to stand or flee, but he ventured back into the parlour, where a' was gaun hirdie-girdie — naebody to say " come in " or " gae out." Terribly the laird roared for cauld water to his feet, and wine to cool his throat ; and ' Hell, hell, hell, and its flames', was aye the word in his mouth. They brought him water, and when they plunged his...