Novels and Romances of the Author of Waverley, Том 1Archibald Constable & Company, Edinburgh, and Hurst, Robinson & Company, London, 1824 |
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... supposed , for the honour of GEORGE the First's government , that the last circumstance , as well as the dates , and other particulars of the commonly received story , are inaccurate , since they will be found totally irreconcilable ...
... supposed , for the honour of GEORGE the First's government , that the last circumstance , as well as the dates , and other particulars of the commonly received story , are inaccurate , since they will be found totally irreconcilable ...
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... supposed to have founded Jarlshof , was peculiarly of this opinion . The present inhabitants of Jarlshof had experi- enced , on several occasions , the kindness and good will of the proprietor of the territory . When Mr Mertoun , such ...
... supposed to have founded Jarlshof , was peculiarly of this opinion . The present inhabitants of Jarlshof had experi- enced , on several occasions , the kindness and good will of the proprietor of the territory . When Mr Mertoun , such ...
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... supposed to cumber the recesses of the Northern Ocean ; and often , when some fog - bank covered the sea at a distance , the eye of the experienced boatmen saw the horns of the monstrous leviathan welking and waving amidst the wreaths ...
... supposed to cumber the recesses of the Northern Ocean ; and often , when some fog - bank covered the sea at a distance , the eye of the experienced boatmen saw the horns of the monstrous leviathan welking and waving amidst the wreaths ...
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... supposed that our Triptolemus , summoned to carry into practice what he had so fondly studied in theory , must have been , to use a simile which he would have thought lively , like a cow entering upon a clover park . Alas , mistaken ...
... supposed that our Triptolemus , summoned to carry into practice what he had so fondly studied in theory , must have been , to use a simile which he would have thought lively , like a cow entering upon a clover park . Alas , mistaken ...
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... supposed capabilities of the soil . No kind of butter that might be churned could be made to stick upon his own bread , any more than on that of poor Tus- ser , whose Hundred Points of Good Husbandry , so useful to others of his day ...
... supposed capabilities of the soil . No kind of butter that might be churned could be made to stick upon his own bread , any more than on that of poor Tus- ser , whose Hundred Points of Good Husbandry , so useful to others of his day ...
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ancient answered arms betwixt boats Brenda Bryce Snaelsfoot Burgh-Westra called Captain Cleveland Claud Halcro dance dark daunt Drows fair father favour fear fish Fitful-head folks frae guests hand hear heard heart Heaven islands jagger Jarlshof John Dryden Kirkwall Lady Glowrowrum land Lerwick look Magnus Troil maidens mair Maister Mordaunt manner mansion master maun mind Minna Troil Mistress Baby Mordaunt Mertoun never Norna Norse Norsemen occasion Odin old Norse once Orkney pedlar racter Ranzelman replied Mordaunt rock Saint Saint Magnus Saint Ninian scarce Scotland seemed shew shore sister song speak stood stranger sure Swertha tacksman tell thee ther thing thou thought Thule tide tion tolemus tone Triptolemus Udaller usual vessel voice waves weel wild wind woman words Yellowley young youth Zetland
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