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Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
adept alarm ancient answered Antiquary arms auld Bailie battle of Harlaw beggar believe better brother canna Captain M'Intyre Castle Caxon countess dear dinna distress Dousterswivel e'en Edie Ochiltree Elspeth exclaimed eyes Fairport father fear frae gang Glen Glenallan House goot grave Greenhorn gude hand head hear Heaven Hector hinnies honour horse Jenny Johne sall kend Knockwinnock lady leddy look Lord Geraldin Lord Glenallan lordship Lovel magistrate mair marriage maun mendicant mind Miss M'Intyre Miss Wardour Misticot's Monkbarns mony mother muckle Mucklebackit nephew never Neville night occasion old Edie Oldbuck onything ower phoca poor puir recollection replied Scotland Selkirkshire silver Sir Arthur soldier speak spirit Steenie suld suppose sure tell thae there's thought tion Troth uncle unco voice wad hae weel woman womankind word young
Populaire passages
Pagina 103 - The old man had made the most desperate efforts to save his son, and had only been withheld by main force from renewing them at a moment, when, without the possibility of assisting the sufferer, he must himself have perished. All this apparently was boiling in his recollection. His glance was directed sidelong towards the coffin, as to an object on which he could not stedfastly look, and yet from which he could not withdraw his eyes.
Pagina 253 - Sir,' she replied, with the spirit of a Roman matron, 'none can know better than you that my son is the only prop by which, since his father's death, our family is supported. But I would rather see him dead on that hearth than hear that he had been a horse's length behind his companions in the defence of his king and country.
Pagina 165 - Crabbed age and youth cannot live together Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare; Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; Youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.
Pagina 105 - ... of his funeral. But the figure ,of the old grandmother was the most remarkable of the sorrowing group. Seated on her accustomed chair, with her usual air of apathy and want of interest in what surrounded her, she seemed every now and then mechanically to resume the motion of twirling her spincile ; then to look towards her bosom for the distaff, although both had been laid aside.