The Waverley Novels, Vydání 11Estes and Lauriat, 1893 |
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Strana 234 - They sate for five minutes silent, on opposite sides of a small table, and looked fixedly at each other; with a sharp, knowing, and alert cast of countenance, not unmingled with an inclination to laugh, and resembled more than...
Strana 108 - Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree ; it will be growing, Jock, when ye're sleeping.
Strana 302 - He hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head. He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone : And mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
Strana xx - Besides, if this objection were out of the way, I do not think the character of the audience in London is such that one could have the least pleasure in pleasing them.
Strana 114 - Reuben and Rachel, though as fond as doves, Were yet discreet and cautious in their loves; Nor would attend to Cupid's wild commands, Till cool reflection bade them join their hands: When both were poor, they thought it argued ill Of hasty love to make them poorer still...
Strana 392 - God doing justice ; and my endeavours to punish murderers are called grievous persecutions. I have conversed with several of the parsons ; and, indeed, I could hardly have given credit to the public reports of the temper of these saints if I had not myself been witness to it."* Thus was all search impeded, nor was any discovery made.
Strana xxxiii - ... of her remarks, she rose to go away, when I asked her name. Her countenance suddenly clouded, and she said gravely, rather colouring, 'My name is Helen Walker; but your husband kens weel about me.' "In the evening I related how much I had been pleased, and inquired what was extraordinary in the history of the poor woman. Mr. — said, there were perhaps few more remarkable people than Helen Walker. She had been...
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