 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 1104 ページ
...like beasts of burden. Tradition proceeds to relate, that the Scottish King, irritated by reiterated with the utmost haste to execute the commission ;...betwixt Hawick and the Hermitage. Messengers, it is said,were immediately despatched by the King, to prevent the effects of such a nasty declaration ;... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1838 - 562 ページ
...drag materials, like beasts of burden. Tradition proceeds to relate, that the Scottish King, irritated by reiterated complaints, peevishly exclaimed to the...Hermitage. Messengers, it is said, were immediately despatched by the King, to prevent the effects of such a hasty declaration; but they only arrived in... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1842 - 746 ページ
...drag materials, like beasts of burden. Tradition proceeds to relate, that the Scottish King, irritated by reiterated complaints, peevishly exclaimed to the...which they accomplished by boiling him alive on the . Nine-slam.1 Rig, in a cauldron, said to have been long preserved at Skelf-hill, a hamlet betwixt... | |
 | William Howitt - 1842 - 634 ページ
...drag materials like beasts of burden. Tradition proceeds to relate, that the Scottish king, irritated by reiterated complaints, peevishly exclaimed to the...commission, which they accomplished, by boiling him on the Nine-stane Rig, in a cauldron, said to have been preserved at Skelf-hill, a hamlet betwixt Hawick... | |
 | Moses Aaron Richardson - 1844 - 436 ページ
...drag materials, like beasts of burden. Tradition proceeds to relate, that the Scottish King, irritated by reiterated complaints, peevishly exclaimed to the...Hermitage. Messengers, it is said, were immediately despatched by the King, to prevent the effects of such a hasty declaration ; but they only arrived... | |
 | 1844 - 858 ページ
...drag materials, like beasts of burden. Tradition proceeds to relate, that the Scottish King, irritated by reiterated complaints, peevishly exclaimed to the...Hermitage. Messengers, it is said, were immediately despatched by the King, to prevent the effects of such a hasty declaration ; but they only arrived... | |
 | Boys - 1852 - 466 ページ
...drag materials like beasts of burden. Tradition proceeds to relate, that the Scottish king, irritated by reiterated complaints, peevishly exclaimed to the...petitioners, ' Boil him if you please, but let me bear no more of him.' Satisfied with this answer, they proceeded with the utmost haste to execute the... | |
 | Joseph S. Moore - 1853 - 900 ページ
...pr.K*eeds to relate, that the Scottish king, irritated by reiterated complaints, peevishiy exclaime-l to the petitioners, ' Boil him, if you please, but...him.' Satisfied with this answer, they proceeded with ,f in in.. ss haute to execute the commission ; which they accompli shed, by boiling him alive on the... | |
 | Thomas Percy - 1856 - 576 ページ
...drag materials, like beasts of burden. Tradition proceeds to relate, that the Scottish King, irritated by reiterated complaints, peevishly exclaimed to the...which they accomplished by boiling him alive on the Nine-stanc Rig, in a cauldron said to have been long preserved at Skelf-hill, a hamlet betwixt Hawick... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1856 - 826 ページ
...irritated by the reiterated complaints of his vassals, whom he treated no better than beasts of burden, peevishly exclaimed to the petitioners, " Boil him, if you please, but let me hear no more of him." This commission they hastily executed on the JIuir Stane Rig, a declivity descending upon Hermitage... | |
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... fortifying his castle of Hermitage against the king of Scotland, for which purpose he employed all means, human and infernal ; invoking the fiends by his incantations, and forcing his vassals to drag materials, like beasts of burden. Tradition proceeds... 
