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acquaintance Alan Fairford Alan's answered apartment Arthuret auld Benjie betwixt brandy brother called cause countenance Court Crackenthorp Cristal Nixon Crosbie danger Darsie Latimer door doubt endeavoured eyes fair father fear Foxley Geddes gentleman give gudesire hand hast head heard heart Herries hinnie honour hope horse Jacobite James Wilkinson Joshua Justice lady Laird lawyer length letter Lilias look Lord manner matter maun Maxwell mind Mount Sharon mutchkin Nanty Ewart never night observed occasion once ower party passed perhaps person Peter Peebles poor present Provost Quaker recollection Redgauntlet replied Samuel Griffiths Scotland Scots law Scottish seemed Shepherd's Bush Sir Richard Solway speak spirit Steenie Summertrees tell thee thing thou thought tion tone Trumbull turned uncle voice walk weel Whigs Willie wish word young
Populaire passages
Pagina 31 - My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer; A-chasing the wild deer, and following the roe, My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go...
Pagina 180 - And there was Claverhouse, as beautiful as when he lived, with his long, dark, curled locks, streaming down over his laced buff-coat, and his left hand always on his right spule-blade, to hide the wound that the silver bullet had made.* He sat apart from them all, and looked at them with a melancholy, haughty countenance ; while the rest hallooed, and sung, and laughed, that the room rang.
Pagina 184 - How, sirrah? Sir Robert's receipt! You told me he had not given you one." "Will your honour please to see if that bit line is right?" Sir John looked at every line, and at every letter, with much attention; and at last at the date, which my gudesire had not observed — "From my appointed place," he read, "this twenty-fifth of November.
Pagina 167 - Whitsunday put ower wi' fair word and piping ; but when Martinmas came, there was a summons from the grund-officer to come wi' the rent on a day preceese, or else Steenie behoved to flit.
Pagina 11 - ... hazard a journey to England at this juncture. The impatience of his friends who were in exile had formed a scheme which was impracticable ; but although it had been as feasible as they had represented it to him, yet no preparation had been made, nor was anything ready to carry it into execution.
Pagina 184 - Steenie, this story of yours concerns the honour of many a noble family besides mine; and if it be a leasing-making, to keep yourself out of my danger, the least you can expect is to have a redhot iron driven through your tongue, and that will be as bad as scauding your fingers wi
Pagina 165 - And so he became a Tory, as they ca' it, which we now ca' Jacobites, just out of a kind of needcessity, that he might belang to some side or other. He had nae...
Pagina 172 - ... to Sir John, sitting in his father's chair, in deep mourning, with weepers and hanging cravat, and a small walking rapier by his side, instead of the auld broadsword that had a hundred-weight of steel about it, what with blade, chape, and basket-hilt. I have heard their communing so often tauld ower, that I almost think I was there mysell, though I couldna be born at the time.
Pagina 169 - gie Steenie a tass of brandy down stairs, till I count the siller and write the receipt." But they werena weel out of the room, when Sir Robert gied a yelloch that garr'd the Castle rock. Back ran Dougal — in flew the livery-men — yell on yell gied the Laird, ilk ane mair awfu
Pagina 61 - A hard and harsh countenance ; eyes far sunk under projecting eyebrows, which were grizzled like his hair ; a wide mouth, furnished from ear to ear with a range of unimpaired teeth of uncommon whiteness, and a size and breadth which might have become the jaws of an ogre, completed this delightful portrait.