WAVERLEY NOVELS BORDER EDITION1892 |
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answered appeared arms army auld bailie Balmawhapple Baron of Bradwardine battle Bodach broadsword Cairnvreckan caliga called castle cavalry CHAPTER Charles Edward Chevalier chief chieftain circumstances clan Colonel Talbot command dear Donald Bean dragoons Edinburgh English Ensign Maccombich eyes favour feelings Fergus Mac-Ivor Fergus's Flora Mac-Ivor followed frae gentleman Gilfillan Glennaquoich hand head heard hero Highlanders hope horse house of Stewart Jacobite Janet Lady Emily laird look Lord Elcho Lord George Murray Lowland Macwheeble Major Melville maun ment military mind Miss Bradwardine Morton never night officer party Penrith person Pinkie House poor portmanteau prince Prince Charles prince's prisoner puir recollection regiment replied Rose Bradwardine Royal Highness Scotland seemed Sir Everard soldiers spirit Spontoon stood sword thought tion took troop Tully-Veolan Veolan Vich Ian Vohr Waverley Honour Waverley's weel Whig whilk wish words young
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Page 205 - 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.
Page 348 - Scottish manners and customs, commenced this innovation. The gradual influx of wealth, and extension of commerce, have since united to render the present people of Scotland a class of beings as different from their grandfathers, as the existing English are from those of Queen Elizabeth's time. The political and economical effects of these changes have been traced by Lord Selkirk with great precision and accuracy.
Page 357 - Events of this kind pass in less time than the description of them can be written, or than it can be read. The Colonel was for a few moments supported by his men, and particularly by that worthy person...
Page 370 - Were you not struck with the fantastical coincidence of our nocturnal disturbances at Abbotsford with the melancholy event that followed ? I protest to you, the noise resembled half-a-dozen men hard at work putting up boards and furniture, and nothing can be more certain than that there was nobody on the premises at the time.
Page 310 - 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 may be very right ; but if they laugh because they think I would not keep my word, and come back to redeem him, I can tell them they ken neither the heart of a Hielandman, nor the honour of a gentleman.
Page 348 - There is no European nation which, within the course of half a century or little more, has undergone so complete a change as this kingdom of Scotland. The effects of the insurrection of 1745, — the destruction of the 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...
Page 303 - In which a witch did dwell, in loathly weeds, And wilful want, all careless of her needs ; So choosing solitary to abide, Far from all neighbours, that her devilish deeds And hellish arts from people she might hide, And hurt far off, unknown whome'er she envied.
Page 358 - ... time several others coming about him while he was thus dreadfully entangled with that cruel weapon, he was dragged off from his horse. The moment he fell, another Highlander, who, if the king's evidence at...
Page 348 - This race has now almost entirely vanished from the land, and with it, doubtless, much absurd political prejudice; but also many living examples of singular and disinterested attachment to the principles of loyalty which they received from their fathers, and of old Scottish faith, hospitality, worth, and honour.
Page 344 - Mac-Ivor and Waverley in their Highland dress, the scene a wild, rocky, and mountainous pass, down which the clan were descending in the back-ground. It was' taken from a spirited sketch, drawn while they were in Edinburgh by a young man of high genius, and had been painted on a full-length scale by an eminent London artist. Raeburn himself, (whose Highland Chiefs...