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... Merrilies , the gypsie , as sure as I am a sinner , " said Mr Bertram . The Dominie groaned deeply , uncrossed his legs , drew in the huge splay foot which his former posture had extended , placed it perpendicular , and stretched the ...
... Merrilies , the gypsie , as sure as I am a sinner , " said Mr Bertram . The Dominie groaned deeply , uncrossed his legs , drew in the huge splay foot which his former posture had extended , placed it perpendicular , and stretched the ...
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... Merrilies descended to the kitchen to secure her share of the « groan- ing malt , » and Mannering , after looking at his watch , and noting , with great minuteness , the hour and minute of the birth , requested , with becoming gravity ...
... Merrilies descended to the kitchen to secure her share of the « groan- ing malt , » and Mannering , after looking at his watch , and noting , with great minuteness , the hour and minute of the birth , requested , with becoming gravity ...
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... Merrilies ! Gypsey - hag - tousand deyvils ! » « Iam coming , I am coming , Captain , » answered Meg ; and in a moment or two the impatient Commander whom she addressed made his appearance from the broken part of the ruins . He was ...
... Merrilies ! Gypsey - hag - tousand deyvils ! » « Iam coming , I am coming , Captain , » answered Meg ; and in a moment or two the impatient Commander whom she addressed made his appearance from the broken part of the ruins . He was ...
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... Merrilies's incantations , had the appearance of some one who was concealing himself , being half hidden by the buttress behind which he stood . The Captain , for such he styled himself , made a sudden and startled pause , and thrust ...
... Merrilies's incantations , had the appearance of some one who was concealing himself , being half hidden by the buttress behind which he stood . The Captain , for such he styled himself , made a sudden and startled pause , and thrust ...
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... Merrilies , who , though she could not be prevailed upon to enter the Place of El- langowan after her nephew had been given up to the press - gang , did not apparently extend her resentment to the child . On the contrary , she often ...
... Merrilies , who , though she could not be prevailed upon to enter the Place of El- langowan after her nephew had been given up to the press - gang , did not apparently extend her resentment to the child . On the contrary , she often ...
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Página 150 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue, Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours: Where are they?
Página 31 - They live no longer in the faith of reason! But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names, And to yon starry world they now are gone, Spirits or gods, that used to share this earth With man as with their friend...
Página 160 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Página 31 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring. Or chasms and wat'ry depths ; all these have vanished They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Página 128 - God, the Maker of all laws, Who hath commanded us we should not kill. And yet we say we must, for Reputation ! What honest man can either fear his own, Or else will hurt another's reputation? Fear to do base unworthy things is valour ; If they be done to us, to suffer them Is valour too.
Página 32 - Come and see ! trust thine own eyes ! A fearful sign stands in the house of life...
Página 55 - With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and...
Página 66 - Many murders have been discovered among them; and they are not only a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants (who if they give not bread, or some kind of provision to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by them) but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty...
Página 41 - Twist ye, twine ye! even so Mingle shades of joy and woe, Hope, and fear, and peace, and strife, In the thread of human life.
Página 82 - Yes ; there's thirty yonder, from the auld wife of an hundred to the babe that was born last week, that ye have turned out o' their bits o' bields, to sleep with the tod and the black-cock in the muirs ! Ride your ways, Ellangowan.