The Black DwarfClassic Books Company, 2001 - 262 pages Scott's 1816 novella of love and nationalism along the Scottish Borders receives the authoritative treatment characteristic of the Edinburgh Editions. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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... auld peel - house wa's pu'd down to make park dykes ; and the bonny broomy knowe , where he liked sae weel to sit at e'en , wi ' his plaid about him , and look at the kye as they cam down the loaning , ill wad he hae liked to hae seen ...
... auld peel - house wa's pu'd down to make park dykes ; and the bonny broomy knowe , where he liked sae weel to sit at e'en , wi ' his plaid about him , and look at the kye as they cam down the loaning , ill wad he hae liked to hae seen ...
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... auld - warld stories about the Black Dwarf , and sic - like , if ware a half mutchkin upon Bauldie there , he'll crack t ' ye like a pen - gun . And I'se gie ye a mutch- kin mysell , man , if I can settle weel wi ' Christy Wilson . ' ye ...
... auld - warld stories about the Black Dwarf , and sic - like , if ware a half mutchkin upon Bauldie there , he'll crack t ' ye like a pen - gun . And I'se gie ye a mutch- kin mysell , man , if I can settle weel wi ' Christy Wilson . ' ye ...
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... auld gude - dame . The carline , she sits in the neuk yonder , upbye , and cracks about the grand shooters and hunters lang syne — Odd , I think they hae killed a ' the deer in the country , for my part . ' ' Well , Hobbie , I have shot ...
... auld gude - dame . The carline , she sits in the neuk yonder , upbye , and cracks about the grand shooters and hunters lang syne — Odd , I think they hae killed a ' the deer in the country , for my part . ' ' Well , Hobbie , I have shot ...
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... auld tower a bit , ' said Hobbie , and live hearty and neighbour - like wi ' the auld family friends , as the Laird o ' Earnseliff should ? I can tell ye , my mother — my grand- mother I mean — but , since we lost our ain mother , we ca ...
... auld tower a bit , ' said Hobbie , and live hearty and neighbour - like wi ' the auld family friends , as the Laird o ' Earnseliff should ? I can tell ye , my mother — my grand- mother I mean — but , since we lost our ain mother , we ca ...
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... auld Ellieslaw was aiding and abetting ; and I am sure if ye were sae disposed as to take amends on him , naebody could say it was wrang , for your father's blood is beneath his nails and besides there's naebody else left that was ...
... auld Ellieslaw was aiding and abetting ; and I am sure if ye were sae disposed as to take amends on him , naebody could say it was wrang , for your father's blood is beneath his nails and besides there's naebody else left that was ...
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Page 66 - Tis the fire-shower of ruin all dreadfully driven From his eyrie, that beacons the darkness of heaven. Oh, crested Lochiel ! the peerless in might, Whose banners arise on the battlements' height, Heaven's fire is around thee, to blast and to burn ; Return to thy dwelling ! all lonely return ! For the blackness of ashes shall mark where it stood, And a wild mother scream o'er her famishing brood.
Page 61 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Page 60 - Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us, that are squires of the night's body, be called thieves of the day's beauty; let us be — Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon : And let men say, we be men of good government; being governed as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we — steal, P.