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 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 24
Page xxxiii
... carrying home a melder of meal , seldom failed to add a gowpen * to the alms - bag of the deformed cripple . In short , David had no occasion for money , save to purchase snuff , his only luxury , in which he indulged himself liberally ...
... carrying home a melder of meal , seldom failed to add a gowpen * to the alms - bag of the deformed cripple . In short , David had no occasion for money , save to purchase snuff , his only luxury , in which he indulged himself liberally ...
Page 2
... carry- ing on betwixt them was a joint ejaculation , ' Lord guide us , an this weather last , what will come o ' the lambs ! ' The hint was sufficient for my Landlord , who , advancing to take the horse of the principal person , and ...
... carry- ing on betwixt them was a joint ejaculation , ' Lord guide us , an this weather last , what will come o ' the lambs ! ' The hint was sufficient for my Landlord , who , advancing to take the horse of the principal person , and ...
Page 8
... carrying through an incorporating union . How that treaty was managed , and how little it seemed for some time to promise the beneficial results which have since taken place to such extent , may be learned from the history of the period ...
... carrying through an incorporating union . How that treaty was managed , and how little it seemed for some time to promise the beneficial results which have since taken place to such extent , may be learned from the history of the period ...
Page 15
... rather angrily , ' I assure you you are mistaken ; and it is extremely wrong of you , either to think of , or to utter , such an idea ; I have no idea of permitting freedoms to be carried so far as to connect 15 THE BLACK DWARF.
... rather angrily , ' I assure you you are mistaken ; and it is extremely wrong of you , either to think of , or to utter , such an idea ; I have no idea of permitting freedoms to be carried so far as to connect 15 THE BLACK DWARF.
Page 16
Walter Scott. permitting freedoms to be carried so far as to connect my name with that of any young lady . ' ' Why , there now — there now ! ' retorted Elliot ; ' did I not say it was nae want o ' spunk that made ye sae mim ? —Weel ...
Walter Scott. permitting freedoms to be carried so far as to connect my name with that of any young lady . ' ' Why , there now — there now ! ' retorted Elliot ; ' did I not say it was nae want o ' spunk that made ye sae mim ? —Weel ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
amang answered auld Aweel bairn baith Black Dwarf bonny Border canna Canny castle companion cousin daughter David Ritchie deformity deil dinna door e'en Ellieslaw Elshie evil exclaimed eyes father fear feelings frae gentlemen Grace Armstrong gude Halyards hame hand hast head hear heard heart Heugh-foot hinny Hobbie Elliot Hobbie's honour horse Hout human I'se Isabella Jacobite JEDEDIAH CLEISHBOTHAM labour Laird Landlord leave look Lucy mair Mareschal maun mind misanthropy Miss Ilderton Miss Vere moor morning mother muckle Mucklestane-Moor mutchkin mysell naebody neighbours never night ower party person poor puir Ratcliffe Recluse replied returned rode Scotland seemed Sir Frederick Langley sisters Solitary speak stone stood sword tell thae thee there's thing thou tion tower voice weel Westburnflat word young Earnscliff young lady yoursell
Popular passages
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.