Malcolm, Volumen1Tauchnitz, 1875 |
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aboot afore answered Malcolm auld bagpipes bide blin Blue Peter boat bonny bude buiks Bykes cam frae canna cave colm coot Courthope cratur cried cudna daddy Daur dinna ken whaur doobt doon door Duncan dune eneuch eyes father fery fish fowk Gaelic gang gien ye girl Glenlyon Graham grandfather hand haud hear hoose intill ither jist Joseph Mair Lady Florimel laugh leddy looked Lord Lossie luik MacPhail mad laird mair Malcolm waited marquis maun Miss Horn Mistress Catanach muckle mysel naething never onything ower Phemy piper pipes Portlossie puir returned Malcolm richt rose Sassenach Seaton Sheltie side spoke stood tell ye there's thing turned verra voice wad hae wadna weel whan winna woman word ye hae ye ken ye wad ye'll ye're yer lordship yersel
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Página 60 - Mountain, and took on himself the part of the moon, proceeding to revolve in the circle which represented her orbit. Several of the boys and girls smiled, but no one laughed, for Mr. Graham's gravity maintained theirs. Without remark, he used the mad laird for a moon to the end of his explanation. Mr. Stewart remained in the school all the morning, stood up with every class Mr. Graham taught, and in the intervals sat, with book or slate before him, still as a Brahmin on the fancied verge of his reabsorption,...
Página 201 - I took in han' to set it furth to ye, I wad hae to tell ye a' that Mr. Graham has been learnin' me sin' ever I can min'. He says 'at the whole economy o' natur is fashiont unco like that o' the kingdom o' haven : its jist a gradation o' services, an
Página 112 - I will send for you." Malcolm thought with himself that he had sent for him this time before he wanted him ; but he made his bow, and departed — not without disappointment, for he had expected the marquis to say something about his grandfather going to the house with his pipes, a request he would fain have carried to the old man to gladden his heart withal. Lord Lossie had been one of the boon companions of the Prince of Wales — considerably higher in type, it is true, yet low enough to accept...
Página 38 - Seaton, as it was called, ran a highway, climbing far above the chimneys of the village to the level of the town above. Behind this road, and separated from it by a high wall of stone, lay a succession of heights and hollows covered with grass. In front of the cottages lay sand and sea. The place was cleaner than most fishing-villages, but so closelv built, so thickly inhabited, and so pervaded with " a very ancient and fish-like smell," that but for the besom of the salt north wind it must have...
Página 92 - ... sunshine streaming through between two upright grave-stones, and glorifying the long grass of a neglected mound that lay close to the wall under the wintry drip from the eaves ; when he raised his head, the church looked very dark. The best way there to preach the Resurrection, he thought, would be to contrast the sepulchral gloom of the church, its dreary psalms and drearier sermons, with the sunlight on the graves, the lark-filled sky, and the wind blowing where it listed. But although the...
Página 43 - I was fery wrathful, and I answered and said: 'Mr. Downey, do you tare to suppose tat God doesn't prefer ta Gaelic to ta Sassenach tongue?' — 'Mr. MacPhail,' says he, 'it'll pe for your poy I mean it.
Página 49 - Maker in ta Sassenach tongue. You must pe learning ta Gaelic, or you'll not pe peing worthy to pe her nain son, Malcolm." As soon as his grandfather left the house, Malcolm went out also, closing the door behind him, and turning the key, but leaving it in the lock. He ascended to the upper town, only, however, to pass through its main street, at the top of which he turned and looked back for a few moments, apparently in contemplation. The descent to the shore was so sudden that he could see nothing...
Página 38 - ... were divided from each other by every sort of small irregular space and passage and looked like a national assembly debating a constitution.