The Pirate, Volume 1Archibald Constable and Company; and Hurst, Robinson, and Company, London, 1822 - Orkney (Scotland) - 346 pages |
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... tell us the following erroneous particulars ; In the month of January , 1724-5 , a vessel , called the Revenge , bearing twenty large guns , and six smaller , commanded by JOHN Gow , or GOFFE , or SMITH , came to the Orkney Islands ...
... tell us the following erroneous particulars ; In the month of January , 1724-5 , a vessel , called the Revenge , bearing twenty large guns , and six smaller , commanded by JOHN Gow , or GOFFE , or SMITH , came to the Orkney Islands ...
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... tell . " - " Nor does it greatly matter , " said Mertoun , somewhat abruptly . " Not a herring's scale , " answered the Laird : " only that I like you the better for being no Scot , as I trust you are not one . Hither they have come ...
... tell . " - " Nor does it greatly matter , " said Mertoun , somewhat abruptly . " Not a herring's scale , " answered the Laird : " only that I like you the better for being no Scot , as I trust you are not one . Hither they have come ...
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... tell his comrades , that if they provoked Master Mertoun any * The operation of slicing the blubber from the bones of the whale , is called , technically , flinching . further , he would turn an absolute Pate Stuart * B 2 THE PIRATES 17 ...
... tell his comrades , that if they provoked Master Mertoun any * The operation of slicing the blubber from the bones of the whale , is called , technically , flinching . further , he would turn an absolute Pate Stuart * B 2 THE PIRATES 17 ...
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... tell the virtues of the dear - departed , Than , when the tempest sends his voice abroad , Be subject to its fury . " The Double Nuptials . THE spring was far advanced , when , after a week spent in sport and festivity at Burgh - Westra ...
... tell the virtues of the dear - departed , Than , when the tempest sends his voice abroad , Be subject to its fury . " The Double Nuptials . THE spring was far advanced , when , after a week spent in sport and festivity at Burgh - Westra ...
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... tell me I have no time to tarry here . , Adieu , Minna ; I will send you the eagle's feathers , if an eagle can be found on Fair - isle or Foulah . And fare thee well , my pretty Bren- da , and keep a thought for me , should the Paba ...
... tell me I have no time to tarry here . , Adieu , Minna ; I will send you the eagle's feathers , if an eagle can be found on Fair - isle or Foulah . And fare thee well , my pretty Bren- da , and keep a thought for me , should the Paba ...
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amongst ancient answered arms better betwixt Bimbister boat Brenda Bryce Burgh-Westra called Captain Cleveland Claud Halcro dance dark daunt Drows father fear Fitful-head folks frae glorious John guests hand hastily hear heard heart heaven honest hospitality islands isles jagger Jarlshof John Dryden Kirkwall lady land laughing least Lerwick look Magnus Troil maidens mair mansion Master Mordaunt maun mind Minna Mistress Baby Mordaunt Mertoun never Norna Norse Norsemen occasion old Norse once Orkney pedler Ranzelman replied Mordaunt rience rock Scambester scarce Scotland seemed share shore sister Skerry Snaelsfoot song speak stood Stourburgh stranger Sumburgh-head Swertha tacksman tell tempest thing thou thought Thule tion tone Triptolemus Yellowley Tronda Udaller Unst usual vessel voice waves weel wild woman words young youth Zetland
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Page 29 - SHE walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies ; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes : Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impair'd the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress, Or softly lightens o'er her face ; Where thoughts serenely sweet express How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.
Page 207 - I pass, like night, from land to land; I have strange power of speech; That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me : To him my tale I teach.
Page 143 - Portugal I sung, Was but the prelude to that glorious day, When thou on silver Thames did'st cut thy way, With...
Page 26 - If strangers sometimes conceived that her fine features were clouded by melancholy for which her age and situation could scarce have given occasion, they were soon satisfied, upon further acquaintance, that the placid mild quietude of her disposition, and the mental energy of a character which was but little interested in ordinary and trivial occurrences, was the real...