The Witch of Withyford: A Story of ExmoorJ. M. Dent & Company, 1896 - 187 pagina's |
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afore arms asked b'aint bide breath BROWN HARE Challacombe cheek child Cleve Combe cried dance dare dear dimpsey door face father fear fire Fishley fling folks fore gone Grange hair hand he'd head hear heard heart her'd her's hounds Jan Williams Jan's Joan kissed knew lady laughed light linhay little maid little Squire looked Lord maidens Malvina many's master mazed mazed Tom mind moor mother saith mother'd Nance Darvel Nance's never nigh night nought old Squire old Squire's person poor maid pretty quick reckon round saith mother saith Nance scarce screamed see'd she'd snow soft soul speak spoke stood stop sudden sure twas Tamsin Bale tell ye terrible things Thirza thorn-trees thought told Tom Fool took Towler truth turf turned twould wait walk witch Witch's Maid Withy Withyford woman wonderful young Squire
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Pagina 130 - ... and left her five hundred pounds in gold, She lived with her uncle, the cause of all her woe, And you shall hear this maiden fair did prove his overthrow. Her uncle had a ploughboy, young Mary loved full well, And in her uncle's garden their tales of love would tell ; There was a wealthy squire who oft came her to see, But still she loved her ploughboy, on the banks of sweet Dundee.
Pagina 49 - For the maidens they gave them the hoist more than ever, through Nance having picked them out for them, and the memories of that awful night in the Combe was dead against their courtings.
Pagina 99 - You'll have to put up with my company, maid, but it's a mad vake at the best.
Pagina 73 - ... he drove off, muttering to himself : " He's a brave lad, but he'd be broken-hearted himself if we should not succeed. Perhaps I was unwise to say so much ; but, pshaw ! we'll do it." And if any of his students had seen the way he bobbed his head and walked away, they would have declared that he had made up his mind to do .something, and do it he would. The boys had a great deal of confidence in Professor Martin, and lie was a general favorite.
Pagina 27 - He was just sure to kick up a worrit, and make a scuffling with his boots...
Pagina 32 - ... to be mopesing in over the fire with no person but Tom Fool to speak to.
Pagina 40 - Combe, and the whirring of the night-hawk a-wheeling round and round, now far now near, then gone.
Pagina 15 - Darvel's green eyes a staring and a staring, like a cat's in a coal cellar, and sudden she could mind no more, but dropped down like a log at the foot of the stairs where she stood.
Pagina 84 - You be the only person in the world who cares a scat about me, and that I know. I b'aint ungrateful, and you mustn't think it, but I can't come to Grange again. I can't, I can't ! " " There, there," saith mother,