Readings from the Waverley NovelsLee and Shepard, 1889 - Počet stran: 264 |
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Abbot Amy Robsart answered apartment Argyle armor arms attend beautiful beneath Bertram betwixt body brave Brian de Bois-Guilbert castle Catherine champion chap character command Covenanters Cromwell crusaders Dalgetty danger daughter death Dinmont Disinherited Knight Duke Duke of Argyle Earl of Leicester Effie Elizabeth encounter escape exclaimed eyes father fear Front-de-Boeuf Grace Guy Mannering hand hath Hatteraick head heard heart Heart of Mid-Lothian Henry Seyton honor horse instantly Ivanhoe Jeanie Jeanie Deans Jewess Kenilworth King Lady Fleming lance Lindesay lives Lochleven look Lord Lovel madam marquis Mary master Melville Morton never noble Old Mortality person Prince John prisoner Queen Queen Caroline Ranald Rebecca replied Richard Roland Græme royal Saladin Saracen Scotland Scott seemed shield Sir Arthur sister soldiers sound spectators stood sword Templar thee Third Crusade thou art tion tower Tressilian turret Varney voice WAVERLEY NOVELS Wayland Smith weapon yonder young
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Strana 100 - Knight," answered Rebecca, faintly ; then instantly again shouted, with joyful eagerness — "But no — but no! the name of the Lord of Hosts be blessed ! he is on foot again, and fights as if there were twenty men's strength in his single arm. His sword is broken — he snatches an axe from a yeoman — he presses Front-de-Bceuf with blow on blow. The giant stoops and totters like an oak under the steel of the woodman —he falls— he falls ! " " Front-de-Bceuf ?
Strana 74 - The trumpets had no sooner given the signal, than the champions vanished from their posts with the speed of lightning, and closed in the centre of the lists with the shock of a thunderbolt.
Strana 75 - Templar aimed at the centre of his antagonist's shield, and struck it so fair and forcibly that his spear went to shivers, and the Disinherited Knight reeled in his saddle. On the other hand, that champion had in the beginning of his career directed the point of his lance...
Strana 100 - They pull down the piles and palisades; they hew down the barriers with axes. — His high black plume floats abroad over the throng, like a raven over the field of the slain. — They have made a breach in the barriers — they rush in — they are thrust back ! — Frontde-Boeuf heads the defenders; I see his gigantic form above the press.
Strana 66 - Her form was exquisitely symmetrical, and was shown to advantage by a sort of Eastern dress, which she wore according to the fashion of the females of her nation. Her turban of yellow silk suited well with the darkness of her complexion. The brilliancy of her eyes, the superb arch of her eyebrows, her well-formed aquiline nose, her teeth as white as pearl...
Strana 74 - A loud shout from the spectators, waving of scarfs and handkerchiefs, and general acclamations, attested the interest taken by the spectators in this encounter ; the most equal, as well as the best performed, which had graced the day. But no sooner had the knights resumed their station than the clamour of applause was hushed into a silence so deep and so dead, that it seemed the multitude were afraid even to breathe. A few minutes...
Strana 34 - If it like you, madam," said Jeanie, 'I would hae gaen to the end of the earth to save the life of John Porteous, or any other unhappy man in his condition ; but I might lawfully doubt how far I am called upon to be the avenger of his blood, though it may become the civil magistrate to do so. He is dead and gane to his place, and they that have slain him must answer for their ain act. But my sister — my puir sister...
Strana 98 - Look from the window once again, kind maiden, but beware that you are not marked by the archers beneath. Look out once more, and tell me if they yet advance to the storm.
Strana 46 - ... frustrated his attempts to attack him on an unguarded point ; so that the Saracen, wheeling his horse, was fain to retreat to the distance of a hundred yards. A second time, like a hawk attacking a heron, the heathen renewed the charge, and a second time was fain to retreat without coming to a close struggle. A third time he approached in the same manner, when the Christian knight, desirous to terminate this...
Strana 67 - ... southern extremities of the lists, accessible by strong wooden gates, each wide enough to admit two horsemen riding abreast. At each of these portals were stationed two heralds, attended by six trumpets, as many pursuivants, and a strong body of men-at-arms for maintaining order, and ascertaining the quality of the knights who proposed to engage in this martial game.