 | 1818 - 574 pages
...his blood, though it may become the chief magistrate to do so. — He is dead and gane to his place, and they that have slain him must answer for their...her to a broken-hearted auld man, that never, in his nightly and daily exercise, forgot to pray that His Majesty might be blessed with a long and a prosperous... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1818 - 344 pages
...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 EiKe, still lives, though her days and hours are numbered ! — She still lives, and a word of the... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1818 - 342 pages
...though iEtasay become the civil 'magistrate to do so. He is dead and gane to his place, and they tfeat have slain him must answer for their ain act. But my sister — my puir sister Effie, BtiH lives, though her days and hours are numbered ! — She still lives, and a word of the King's... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1818 - 346 pages
...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 Effie, still lives, though her days and hours are numbered !—She still lives,... | |
 | Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1818 - 340 pages
...avenger of his blood, though it may become the civil magistrate to do so. is dead and gane to his place, and they that have slain him must answer for their ain act. JJut my sister — my puir sister Effie, stiiJ lives, though her days ai;d hours are numbered ! —... | |
 | 1824 - 394 pages
...sympathised with her sufferings. — Listen, gentle reader, to her pleading before her Majesty : " But my sister — my puir sister Effie, still lives,...that his Majesty might be blessed with a long and prosperous reign, and that his throne, and the throne of his posterity, might be established in righteousness.... | |
 | William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...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...sister — my puir sister Effie still lives, though her day and hours are numbered ; she still lives, and a word of the king's mouth might restore her to a... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1849 - 732 pages
...blood, though it may become the civil magistrate to do so. He is dead ana gang to his place, and 'hey that have slain him must answer for their ain act. But my sister— my puir sistef Effie. still lives, though her days and hours are numbered ! — She still lives,- and a word... | |
 | Walter Scott - English fiction - 1855 - 732 pages
...blood, though it may become the civil magistrate to do so. He is dead and gane to hie place, and 'hey ! 7 . e B !NqM W L SP- j AV [Zl2 T X U — mypuir sister Effie, still lives, though her days and hours are numbered!— She still lives, and... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1859 - 850 pages
...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...mouth might restore her to a broken-hearted auld man, thai never, in his daily and nightly exercise, forgot to pray that his Majesty might be blessed with... | |
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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... 
