Tales of My Landlord: Third SeriesJ. Maxwell, 1822 |
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Ailsie Gourlay Allan ancient answered apartment arms attendants auld Balderstone better betwixt bridal bride Bucklaw Caleb captain Craigengelt captain Dalgetty cavalier chuse colonel Ashton convention of estates Craigie Dame Gourlay daugh daughter domestic engagement eyes father favour fire fortune frae gentleman gude guests hand hath Hayston hear heard Highland honour hope horse interrupted jacobite JEDEDIAH CLEISHBOTHAM king kinsman lady Ashton laird look lord keeper lord Menteith lordship Low country Lucy's madam mair marquis master of Ravenswood mind Miss Ashton mother never night noble occasion ower parliament party person presbyterian Ravens Ravenswood castle replied returned ride Scotish Scotland servants sexton sir William Ashton spirit suld sure sword tell thing thought tion tone tower turned venswood village weel whilk Wolf's Crag Wolf's-hope wood young
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Сторінка 141 - His slouched hat, which he had not removed at entrance, gave an additional gloom to his dark features, which, wasted by sorrow, and marked by the ghastly look communicated by long illness, added to a countenance naturally somewhat stern and wild, a fierce and even savage expression.
Сторінка 185 - For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant To be the true church militant ; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun ; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery ; And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks...
Сторінка 126 - There, in a gloomy hollow glen, she found A little cottage built of sticks and reeds, In homely wise, and wall'd with sods around. In which a witch did dwell in loathly weeds, And wilful want, all careless of her needs ; So choosing solitary to abide Far from all neighbours, that her devilish deeds, And hellish arts, from people she might hide, And hurt far off, unknown, whomsoever she espied.