 | James Grahame - 1805 - 184 pagina’s
...straighted his body, and covered him in her plaid, and sat down and wept over him. It being a very desart place, where never victual grew, and far from neighbours,...was some time before any friends came to her : the first that came was a very fit hand, that old singular Christian woman in the Cummerhead, named Elizabeth... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1806 - 458 pagina’s
...straighted his body, and covered him in her plaid, and sat down, and wept over him. It being a very desart place, where never victual grew, and far from neighbours,...was some time before any friends came to her ; the first that came was a very lit hand, that old singular Christian woman, in the Cummerhead, named Elizabeth... | |
 | James Grahame - 1807 - 250 pagina’s
...straighted his body, and covered him in her plaid, and sat down, and wept over him. It being a very desart place, where never victual grew, and far from neighbours,...was some time before any friends came to her : the first that came was a very fit hand, that old singular Christian woman in the Cummerhead, named Elizabeth... | |
 | Scottish border - 1812 - 516 pagina’s
...straighted his body, and covered him in her plaid, and sat down, and wept over him. It being a very desart place, where never victual grew, and far from neighbours,...was some time before any friends came to her ; the first that came was a very fit hand, that old singular Christian woman, in the Cummerhead, named Elizabeth... | |
 | 1860 - 796 pagina’s
...horse, and marched, and left her with the corpse of her dead husband lying there ; she set the bnirn on the ground, and gathered his brains, and tied up...was some time before any friends came to her. The first that came was a very fit hand, that old singular Christian woman in the Cummerhead, named Elizabeth... | |
 | 1864 - 814 pagina’s
...recalled the graphic description of the spot where Claverhouse is said to have shot John Brown — " it being a very desert place, where never victual grew, and far from neighbours." On entering into Strathmore, however, at the north base of the massive Ben Hope, the rain ceased, the... | |
 | James Mitchell - 1825 - 798 pagina’s
...and straightened his body, and covered him with her plaid, and sat down and wept over him. It being u very desert place, where never victual grew, and far...was some time before any friends came to her. The first that cafhe, was a very tit hand, that old singular woman in the Cummerhead, named Elizabeth Men/ies,... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pagina’s
...the ground, and tied up his head, and straighted his body, and covered him in her plaid, and satdown, and wept over him. It being a very desert place, where...was some time before any friends came to her: the first that came was a very fit hand, that old singular Christian woman in the Cummerhead, named Elizabeth... | |
 | 1828 - 396 pagina’s
...and sat down and wept over him. It being a very desert place, where never victual grew, and far fiom neighbours, it was some time before any friends came to her : the first that came was a very fit hand, that old singular Christian woman, in the Cummerhead, named Elizabeth... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 398 pagina’s
...straigbted his body, and covered him in her plaid, and sat down, and wept over him. It being a very desart place, where never victual grew, and far from neighbours, it was some time before any friends camo to her ; the first that came was a very fit hand, that old singular Christian woman, in the Cummer... | |
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... her plaid, and sat down and wept over him. It being a very desert place, where never victual grew, and far from neighbours, it was some time before any friends came to her. 
