Novels and tales of the author of Waverley, Volume 12 |
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Allan M'Aulay Angus M'Aulay Annot Lyle answered apartment Argyll Argyll's Argyllshire arms army attendants blood Bucklaw called Captain Dalgetty castle cavalier Chiefs clan claut Colonel Ashton command Covenanters Craigengelt Drumthwacket Dugald Dalgetty Earl Earl of Menteith enemy eyes father follow gentlemen getty glen Gourlay Gustavus Gustavus Adolphus hand hath Hayston head hear heard Highland honour horse Inverary King Knight of Ardenvohr Lady Ashton Laird looked Lord Menteith lordship Low Countries Lowland Lucy M'Callum Major Dalgetty Mareschal College Marquis ment military mind Miss Ashton Mist Montrose Montrose's mountains Murdoch never noble occasion party person pike plaid racter Ranald MacEagh rank Ravenswood replied respect returned Sassenach Scotland Scottish shew Sir Dugald Sir Dun Sir Duncan Campbell Sir William Ashton soldier speak spirit sword tain teith ther thou tion trose voice whilk wild wound young
Popular passages
Page 401 - The march begins, in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes...
Page 478 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Page 115 - For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant To be the true church militant ; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun ; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery ; And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks...
Page 366 - I'll deck and crown thy head with bays, And love thee more and more.
Page 62 - And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her ; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.
Page 297 - Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit...
Page 62 - But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand : and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.
Page 83 - Here they found the unfortunate girl, seated, or rather couched like a hare upon its form — her head-gear dishevelled ; her night-clothes torn and dabbled with blood, — her eyes glazed, and her features convulsed into a wild paroxysm of insanity.
Page 367 - Bless us! what a word on A title-page is this! and some in file Stand spelling false, while one might walk to MileEnd Green. Why is it harder, sirs, than Gordon, Colkitto, or Macdonnel, or Galasp? Those rugged names to our like mouths grow sleek, That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp.
Page 3 - Was ever woman in this humour woo'd ? Was ever woman in this humour won ? I'll have her, but I will not keep her long.