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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... Muckle- stane - Moor has been generally allowed to be a tolerably exact and unexaggerated portrait of David of Manor Water . He was not quite three feet and a half high , since he could stand upright in the door of his mansion , which ...
... Muckle- stane - Moor has been generally allowed to be a tolerably exact and unexaggerated portrait of David of Manor Water . He was not quite three feet and a half high , since he could stand upright in the door of his mansion , which ...
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... muckle mistaen — A ' the warld tells tales about * We have , in this and other instances , printed in italics some few words which the worthy editor , Mr. Jedediah Cleishbotham , seems to have interpolated upon the text of his deceased ...
... muckle mistaen — A ' the warld tells tales about * We have , in this and other instances , printed in italics some few words which the worthy editor , Mr. Jedediah Cleishbotham , seems to have interpolated upon the text of his deceased ...
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... unco braw shelter for the lambs in a severe morn- ing like this . ' 6 6 Ay , ' said his patron , but ye ken we maun hae turnips for the lang sheep , billie , and muckle hard wark to get them , baith wi ' the 3 THE BLACK DWARF.
... unco braw shelter for the lambs in a severe morn- ing like this . ' 6 6 Ay , ' said his patron , but ye ken we maun hae turnips for the lang sheep , billie , and muckle hard wark to get them , baith wi ' the 3 THE BLACK DWARF.
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... muckle need . ' ' Odd , Bauldie says very true , —short sheep did make short rents — my father paid for our steading just threescore punds , and it stands me in three hundred , plack and bawbee . — And that's very true —I hae nae time ...
... muckle need . ' ' Odd , Bauldie says very true , —short sheep did make short rents — my father paid for our steading just threescore punds , and it stands me in three hundred , plack and bawbee . — And that's very true —I hae nae time ...
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... muckle , only I wanted some venison to our 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 ...
... muckle , only I wanted some venison to our 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 ...
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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.