Highland Lassies: Or, The Roua PassSmith, Elder and Company, 1862 - 316 Seiten |
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... nearly shook his ragged jacket off him , exclaiming , Kill what , you devil ? ' • " Hoch , och ! the staig - the bonny staig ! ' " Were you clean daft , Sandy ? Why did you fire ? You know fine you were only to hold the gun for Mr ...
... nearly shook his ragged jacket off him , exclaiming , Kill what , you devil ? ' • " Hoch , och ! the staig - the bonny staig ! ' " Were you clean daft , Sandy ? Why did you fire ? You know fine you were only to hold the gun for Mr ...
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... nearly of equal stature with Esmé ; who would never overtake Norah's ther unusual height . Esmé wanted but a short space to eighteenth birthday ; though from her fairness , she looked ounge Her features were not nearly so regular as ...
... nearly of equal stature with Esmé ; who would never overtake Norah's ther unusual height . Esmé wanted but a short space to eighteenth birthday ; though from her fairness , she looked ounge Her features were not nearly so regular as ...
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... nearly two o'clock by the sun as they turned off the road where it drew towards its close , and struck into the heather track which brought them down upon Dreumah . The baying of the kenneled dogs would have been a guide to its exact ...
... nearly two o'clock by the sun as they turned off the road where it drew towards its close , and struck into the heather track which brought them down upon Dreumah . The baying of the kenneled dogs would have been a guide to its exact ...
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... Nearly a thousand fish lay heaped upon the beach , and as two carts were driven down , and piled with the spoil , Marchmoram asked Esmé if the cottagers would like them for their supper as well as the milk she had wished for ; so the ...
... Nearly a thousand fish lay heaped upon the beach , and as two carts were driven down , and piled with the spoil , Marchmoram asked Esmé if the cottagers would like them for their supper as well as the milk she had wished for ; so the ...
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... nearly twelve hundred years ago : I take a drink from it every day . " Marchmoram had talked with Glenbenrough , but he had also heard much of Auber and Esmé's low voiced conversation : his eye also had been studying her face . He now ...
... nearly twelve hundred years ago : I take a drink from it every day . " Marchmoram had talked with Glenbenrough , but he had also heard much of Auber and Esmé's low voiced conversation : his eye also had been studying her face . He now ...
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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...