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... prevailed on him to yield . He took charge of his enemy's property , pro- tected his person , and finally obtained him liberty on his parole . VOL . I. D The officer proved to be Colonel Whitefoord , an Ayrshire WAVERLEY; ...
... prevailed on him to yield . He took charge of his enemy's property , pro- tected his person , and finally obtained him liberty on his parole . VOL . I. D The officer proved to be Colonel Whitefoord , an Ayrshire WAVERLEY; ...
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... Colonel White- foord's Whig friends , as pleasantly and as good - humouredly as if all had been at peace around him . After the battle of Culloden had ruined the hopes of Charles Edward , and dispersed his proscribed adherents , it was ...
... Colonel White- foord's Whig friends , as pleasantly and as good - humouredly as if all had been at peace around him . After the battle of Culloden had ruined the hopes of Charles Edward , and dispersed his proscribed adherents , it was ...
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... colonel , as I am informed , is an excellent man - for a Presbyterian : but you will remember your duty to God , the Church of England , and the " ( this breach ought to have been supplied , according to the rubrick , with the word king ...
... colonel , as I am informed , is an excellent man - for a Presbyterian : but you will remember your duty to God , the Church of England , and the " ( this breach ought to have been supplied , according to the rubrick , with the word king ...
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... Colonel Gardiner , the command- ing officer of the regiment , was himself a study for a romantic , and at the same time an inquisitive , youth . In person he was tall , handsome , and active , though somewhat advanced in life . In his ...
... Colonel Gardiner , the command- ing officer of the regiment , was himself a study for a romantic , and at the same time an inquisitive , youth . In person he was tall , handsome , and active , though somewhat advanced in life . In his ...
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... be enforced in a very rigid manner , had also obtained full possession of his mind , and had hitherto been sanctioned by the indulgent conduct of his lieutenant - colonel . Neither had any thing occurred , to his knowledge , 182 WAVERLEY .
... be enforced in a very rigid manner , had also obtained full possession of his mind , and had hitherto been sanctioned by the indulgent conduct of his lieutenant - colonel . Neither had any thing occurred , to his knowledge , 182 WAVERLEY .
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Términos y frases comunes
ancient answered appeared arms army attended Balmawhapple Baron of Bradwardine broadsword brother caliga called Callum Beg Captain Waverley castle Caterans CHAPTER character Chevalier Chief Chieftain clan Colonel Talbot command dear Donald Bean Lean Edinburgh Edward Waverley English Evan Dhu eyes father favour feelings Fergus Mac-Ivor Fergus's Flora Gay Bowers Gellatley gentleman Gilfillan Glennaquoich hand head heard hero Highland honour hope horse house of Stewart Jacobite Lady Laird look Lord Lord George Murray louis-d'or Lowland Major Melville manner military mind Miss Bradwardine Miss Mac-Ivor morning never night observed occasion officer party passed person Perthshire plaid portmanteau present Prince prisoner received regiment rendered replied returned romantic Rose Bradwardine Scotland Scottish seemed shewed Sir Everard sister soldiers spirit Spontoon supposed sword thought tion Titus Livius Tully-Veolan Vich Ian Vohr Waverley-Honour Waverley's Whig wish young
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Página 34 - To track the buck in thicket green; Now we come to chant our lay * Waken, lords and ladies gay.' Waken, lords and ladies gay, To the greenwood haste away; We can show you where he lies, Fleet of foot and tall of size; We can show the marks he made When 'gainst the oak his antlers fray'd; You shall see him brought to bay;
Página 324 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
Página 57 - I have, therefore, like a maiden knight with his white shield, assumed for my hero, WAVERLEY, an uncontaminated name, bearing with its sound little of good or evil, excepting what the reader shall hereafter be pleased to affix to it.
Página 193 - 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!
Página 380 - I'll fetch them up to ye mysell, to head or hang, and you may begin wi' me the very first man." Notwithstanding the solemnity of the occasion, a sort of laugh was heard in the court at the extraordinary nature of the proposal. The Judge checked this indecency, and Evan, looking sternly around, when the murmur abated, " If the Saxon gentlemen are laughing," he said, "because a poor man, such as me, thinks my life, or the life of six of my degree, is worth that of Vich Ian Vohr, it's like enough they...
Página 402 - ... patriarchal power of the Highland chiefs, — the abolition of the heritable jurisdictions of the Lowland nobility and barons, — the total eradication of the Jacobite party, which, averse to intermingle with the English, or adopt their customs, long continued to pride themselves upon maintaining ancient Scottish manners and customs, — commenced this innovation.
Página 109 - Hie away, hie away, Over bank and over brae, Where the copsewood is the greenest, Where the fountains glisten sheenest, Where the lady-fern grows strongest, Where the morning dew lies longest, Where the black-cock sweetest sips it, Where the fairy latest trips it. Hie to haunts right seldom seen, Lovely, lonesome, cool, and green, Over bank and over brae, Hie away, hie away. 'Do the verses he sings,' asked Waverley, 'belong to old Scottish poetry, Miss Bradwardine?
Página 410 - I myself," says the traveller, Fynes Morrison, in the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, the scene being the Lowlands of Scotland, " was at a knight's house, who had many servants to attend him, that brought in his meat with their heads covered with blue caps, the table being more than half furnished with great platters of porridge, each having a little piece of sodden meat. And when the table was served, the servants did sit down with us ; but the upper mess, instead of porridge, had a pullet, with...
Página 406 - He thought he saw an unusual blaze of light fall upon the book while he was reading, which he at first imagined might happen by some accident in the candle ; but, lifting up his eyes, he apprehended, to his extreme amazement, that there was before him, as it were suspended in the air, a visible representation of the Lord Jesus Christ upon the cross, surrounded on all sides with a glory...
Página 34 - Diamonds on the brake are gleaming, And foresters have busy been To track the buck in thicket green; Now we come to chant our lay,