Waverly Novels: IvanhoeTicknor and Fields, 1863 |
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Alison answered arms auld Balfour battle battle of Killiecrankie blood body Bothwell Burley called canna carabines carnal castle cause Claver Claverhouse Colonel Grahame command Cornet Covenant Covenanters Cuddie death dinna dragoons e'en enemy Erastianism exclaimed father favour followed frae gang gentleman gude Gudyill Halliday hand head hear heard Heaven Henry Morton hill honour horse housekeeper insurgents JEDEDIAH CLEISHBOTHAM Jenny Dennison keep Kettledrummle King King's kingdom of Scotland Lady Margaret Bellenden leddy Life-Guards Lochgoin look Lord Evandale mair Major Bellenden maun Mause Milnwood Miss Bellenden mither ne'er never officer Old Mortality ower party person popinjay presbyterians prisoner puir regiment retreat roundheads Scotland seemed sergeant soldiers speak sword thae thou Tillietudlem tion tone troopers turned uncle uncle's weel whig woman word ye hae young yoursell
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Pagina 268 - The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
Pagina 36 - ... or cushion of straw, instead of bridle and saddle. A canvas pouch hung around the neck of the animal, — for the purpose, probably, of containing the rider's tools, and anything else he might have occasion to carry with him. Although I had never seen the old man before, yet from the singularity of his employment, and the style of his equipage, I had no difficulty in recognising a religious itinerant, whom I had often heard talked of, and who was known in various parts of Scotland by the title...
Pagina 265 - And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; And they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: And all flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy Saviour And thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
Pagina 100 - Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of music...
Pagina 35 - As I approached, I was agreeably undeceived. An old man was seated upon the monument of the slaughtered Presbyterians, and busily employed in deepening, with his chisel, the letters of the inscription, which, announcing, in scriptural language, the promised blessings of futurity to be the lot of the slain, anathematized the murderers with corresponding violence. A blue bonnet of unusual dimensions covered the gray hairs of the pious workman.
Pagina 230 - Those that were stout of heart are spoil'd, They slept their sleep outright ; And none of those their hands did find, That were the men of might. When thy rebuke, O Jacob's God, Had forth against them past, Their horses and their chariots both Were in a deep sleep cast.
Pagina 265 - But thus saith the LORD: Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, And the prey of the terrible shall be delivered; And I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, And I will save thy children.
Pagina 133 - I AM a son of Mars, Who have been in many wars, And show my cuts and scars Wherever I come ; This here was for a wench, And that other in a trench, When welcoming the French At the sound of the drum.
Pagina 180 - But under this soft exterior was hidden a spirit unbounded in daring and in aspiring, yet cautious and prudent as that of Machiavel himself. Profound in politics, and imbued, of course, with that disregard for individual rights which its intrigues usually generate, this leader was cool and collected in danger, fierce and ardent in pursuing success, careless of facing death himself, and ruthless in inflicting it upon others. Such are the characters formed in times of civil discord, when the highest...
Pagina 180 - The severity of his character, as well as the higher attributes of undaunted and enterprising valour which even his enemies were compelled to admit, lay concealed under an exterior which seemed adapted to the court or the saloon rather than to the field. The same gentleness and gaiety of...