Highland Lassies: Or, The Roua PassSmith, Elder and Company, 1862 - 316 Seiten |
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... a small field - glass into his pocket , and sauntered out . When he felt the keen air strike his face , he turned and took a large plaid of Mackenzie clan tartan from a table where lay heaps of day for lunch. Pray have it put up; ...
... a small field - glass into his pocket , and sauntered out . When he felt the keen air strike his face , he turned and took a large plaid of Mackenzie clan tartan from a table where lay heaps of day for lunch. Pray have it put up; ...
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... felt blind for a moment . I did not let fly my rifle at the rascal as you might have done ; but Ralph seized him , and nearly shook his ragged jacket off him , exclaiming , Kill what , you devil ? ' • " Hoch , och ! the staig - the ...
... felt blind for a moment . I did not let fly my rifle at the rascal as you might have done ; but Ralph seized him , and nearly shook his ragged jacket off him , exclaiming , Kill what , you devil ? ' • " Hoch , och ! the staig - the ...
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... felt his senses soothed and satisfied . How plea- sant it was enjoyment without distraction . When they re- turned to the house , the tea table was spread in the drawing- room ; a hissing urn rose amid plates piled with oat - cakes ...
... felt his senses soothed and satisfied . How plea- sant it was enjoyment without distraction . When they re- turned to the house , the tea table was spread in the drawing- room ; a hissing urn rose amid plates piled with oat - cakes ...
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... felt what an exquisite shadowy smile he possessed . They all talked , but less generally than at lunch time ; Harold and Norah thawed in a little mutual reserve of manner towards each other , and favourite authors and many other topics ...
... felt what an exquisite shadowy smile he possessed . They all talked , but less generally than at lunch time ; Harold and Norah thawed in a little mutual reserve of manner towards each other , and favourite authors and many other topics ...
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... felt her to be alien . It was she who built the first proprietary school in that district , and set the example of a cultivated mind and refined habits to many neighbouring homes . Mademoiselle Backhacker re- mained as governess until ...
... felt her to be alien . It was she who built the first proprietary school in that district , and set the example of a cultivated mind and refined habits to many neighbouring homes . Mademoiselle Backhacker re- mained as governess until ...
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amongst Arduashien asked Auber bank beautiful beneath birch bog-myrtle bright brow Colonel Sternbotham colour cottage dance dark deer door dress Dreumah Dual Ghu English Esmé and Ishbel Esmé's Ewen Mackenzie Ewen's exclaimed eyes face father feel fire Florh frae Gaelic gaze gillies girls Glenbenrough Gupini hair hand Harold head heard heart heather Highland hills hour Huistan Jeanie Cameron Kelpie kilted knew Lady Ida Lady Mac Neil laird lassie laugh lips loch Lochandhu looked Marchmoram marriage Miss Christy Miss Esmé Miss Mac Neil morning never night Norah pale party Phee plaid pony quiet replied river rock Roua Pass round sassenach seated Seatoune smile spoke stood Strathshielie strong tartan tell Thistlebank Thorold thought told turned valet voice walked weel whisky whispered wild ye're young
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Seite 3 - It's no in makin muckle mair: It's no in books ; it's no in lear, To make us truly blest : If Happiness hae not her seat And centre in the breast, We may be wise, or rich, or great, But never can be blest : Nae treasures, nor pleasures, Could make us happy lang; The heart...
Seite 157 - Love's Philosophy The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the Ocean, The winds of Heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine In one another's being mingle. Why not I with thine...
Seite 157 - See, the mountains kiss high heaven, And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea : What are all these kissings worth If thou kiss not me...
Seite 158 - ... Ocean, The winds of Heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine In one another's being mingle. Why not I with thine?-— See the mountains kiss high Heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth And the moonbeams kiss the sea: What are all these kissings worth If thou kiss not me?
Seite 200 - An' now, auld Cloots, I ken ye're thinkin, A certain Bardie's rantin, drinkin, Some luckless hour will send him linkin, To your black pit ; But, faith ! he'll turn a corner jinkin, An' cheat you yet. But, fare you weel, auld Nickie-ben ! O wad ye tak a thought an' men' ! Ye aiblins might — I dinna ken — Still hae a stake — I'm wae to think upo' yon den, Ev'n for your sake ! THE DEATH AND DYING WORDS OF POOR MAILIE,
Seite 12 - But bring a Scotsman frae his hill, Clap in his cheek a Highland gill, Say, such is royal George's will, An' there's the foe, He has nae thought but how to kill Twa at a blow.
Seite 280 - Where the howlet mourns in her ivy bower, And tells the midnight moon her care. The winds were laid, the air was still, The stars they shot alang the sky ; The fox was howling on the hill, And the distant echoing glens reply.
Seite 90 - And what meat's i' this house, ladye, That ye're na wellcum tee ? '" — " O ye'se gae kill your berry-brown steed, And serve him up to me." O when he kill'd his berry-brown steed, Wow gin his heart was sair ! She ate him a' up, skin and bane, Left naething but hide and hair. " Mair meat, mair meat, ye King Henrie ! Mair meat ye gie to me ? " —
Seite 242 - Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thus, with delight, we linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way; Thus, from afar, each dim-discovered scene More pleasing seems than all the past hath been ; And every form that Fancy can repair From dark oblivion glows divinely there.
Seite 49 - And though you be weary, we'll make your heart cheery, And welcome our Charlie and his loyal train. We'll bring down the track deer, we'll bring down the black steer, The lamb from the...