The Waverley Novels, 第 9 巻A. and C. Black, 1877 |
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75 ページ - Dougal was glad to see Steenie, and brought him into the great oak parlour, and there sat the laird his leesome lane, excepting that he had beside him a great, ill-favoured jackanape, that was a special pet of his ; a cankered beast it was, and mony an ill-natured trick it played — ill to please it was, and easily angered — ran about the haill castle, chattering and yowling, and pinching, and biting folk, specially before ill weather, or disturbances in the state.
79 ページ - ... world was like to regard him as a thief and a cheat, and he took that waur than even the ruin of his house and hauld. On he rode, little caring where. It was a dark night turned, and the trees made it yet darker, and he let the beast take its ain road through the wood; when, all of a sudden, from tired and wearied that it was before, the nag began to spring, and flee, and...
82 ページ - Hutcheon," said my gudesire ;• "he kens a' the odd corners about as weel as — another serving man that is now gane, and that I wad not like to name." Aweel, Hutcheon, when he was asked, told them, that a ruinous turret, lang disused, next to the clock-house, only accessible by a ladder, for the opening was on the outside, and far above the battlements, was called of old the Cat's Cradle. " There will I go immediately...
81 ページ - Weel, piper, hae ye settled wi? my son for the year's rent ? ' With much ado my father gat breath to say, that Sir John would not settle without his honour's receipt. ' Ye ' shall hae that for a tune of the pipes, Steenie,' said the appearance of Sir Robert — * Play us up "Weel hoddled, Luckie.
74 ページ - ... the Laird; for Dougal could turn his master round his finger. Weel, round came the Revolution, and it had like to have broken the hearts baith of Dougal and his master.
75 ページ - Laurie had walth o' gear — could hunt wi' the hound and rin wi' the hare — and be Whig or Tory, saunt or sinner, as the wind stood. He was a professor in this Revolution warld, but he liked an orra sough of this warld, and a tune on the pipes weel aneugh at a...
501 ページ - But the latter had in the meanwhile recovered his mace, and the Eastern cavalier, who remembered the strength and dexterity with which his antagonist had aimed it, seemed to keep cautiously out of reach of that weapon, of which he had so lately felt the force, while he showed his purpose of waging a distant warfare with missile weapons of his own.
626 ページ - Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace. With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.
8 ページ - M'Namara, the gentleman who was sent to him, who has a natural eloquence, and an excellent understanding, urged the most cogent reasons, and used all the arts of persuasion, to induce him to part with his mistress, and even proceeded so far as to assure him, according to his instructions...
586 ページ - Adversity is like the period of the former and of the latter rain — cold, comfortless, unfriendly to man and to animal ; yet from that season have their birth the flower and the fruit, the date, the rose, and the pomegranate.