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... death to an inglorious retreat , met their fate by being dashed to pieces by the great shot from the culverins of the enemy . The earth shook with the thunder of the retreating horsemen , and many of them fell from their horses as they ...
... death to an inglorious retreat , met their fate by being dashed to pieces by the great shot from the culverins of the enemy . The earth shook with the thunder of the retreating horsemen , and many of them fell from their horses as they ...
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... death amongst them . In vain did the several companies of lancers endeavour to dislodge them , for they were repulsed by a troop of horse , under the command of De Cosse himself , who galloped down upon them , hardly allowing them time ...
... death amongst them . In vain did the several companies of lancers endeavour to dislodge them , for they were repulsed by a troop of horse , under the command of De Cosse himself , who galloped down upon them , hardly allowing them time ...
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... Death to the here- tic dogs , " he passed them without further interruption . Arriving at his hotel , he saw with horror that it was beset by a party of Swiss guards . The door was burst open , and the shrieks of his beloved wife rent ...
... Death to the here- tic dogs , " he passed them without further interruption . Arriving at his hotel , he saw with horror that it was beset by a party of Swiss guards . The door was burst open , and the shrieks of his beloved wife rent ...
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... Death to the heretics , " he escaped the weapons of the numerous bands who were speeding through the city , and arrived at the ambassador's hotel , where he found numbers of Englishmen , who had taken sanctuary there . He had no sooner ...
... Death to the heretics , " he escaped the weapons of the numerous bands who were speeding through the city , and arrived at the ambassador's hotel , where he found numbers of Englishmen , who had taken sanctuary there . He had no sooner ...
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... death - like paleness , and there was a marked sternness in his look , to which his beard and mustachios , which still retained their jetty blackness , greatly contributed ; a few grey hairs sufficed to shew that time had done its work ...
... death - like paleness , and there was a marked sternness in his look , to which his beard and mustachios , which still retained their jetty blackness , greatly contributed ; a few grey hairs sufficed to shew that time had done its work ...
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Page 232 - WHEN civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out, they knew not why ; When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion, as for punk ; VOL.
Page 123 - When service should in my old limbs lie lame And unregarded age in corners thrown: Take that, and He that doth the ravens feed, Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, Be comfort to my age!
Page 61 - I'm the chief of Ulva's isle, And this, Lord Ullin's daughter. 'And fast before her father's men Three days we've fled together, For should he find us in the glen, My blood would stain the heather. 'His horsemen hard behind us ride — Should they our steps discover, Then who will cheer my bonny bride When they have slain her lover?
Page 125 - ... appearance on the dancing place. His singular tones and strange gesticulations soon collected around him a troop of laughing villagers; but it was not without considerable difficulty gathered from the broken German of the orator (whose hands and feet were equally eloquent with his tongue,) that his master's carriage had been overturned in the neighbourhood, and that a wheel was broken to pieces, which he was anxious to have put to rights, in order that he might prosecute his journey. " Who talks...
Page 174 - Oh ! let the herbs I loved to rear Give to my sense their perfumed breath ; Let them be placed about my bier, And grace the gloomy house of death.
Page 144 - You may imagine, then,' said the old Caerlaverock peasant, rising at once with the commencement of his story from his native dialect into very passable English — 'you may imagine these ruined walls raised again in their beauty — whitened and covered with a coating of green broom; that garden, now desolate, filled with herbs in their season, and with flowers, hemmed round with a fence of cherry and plum-trees; and the whole possessed by a young fisherman, who won a fair subsistence for his wife...
Page 133 - In my twentieth year, a cannon-shot carried away my right arm : I received my discharge, and was thrown on the world destitute and hopeless. Ignorant of any trade by which I could gain a livelihood, and rendered incapable of labour by the loss of my arm, I abandoned myself to a profound melancholy, which threw me into a long and severe illness ; when I recovered, my disappointed prospects, and a sort of spite at the world, made me a beggar ; my youth and infirmities gained me more compassion than...
Page 158 - ... and those who had the hardihood to keep watch on the beach at midnight, had their tales to tell of terrible lights and strange visions. — With one who delighted in the marvellous, the spectre was decked in attributes that made the circle of auditors tighten round the hearth ; while others, who allowed to a ghost only a certain quantity of thin air to clothe itself in, reduced it in their description to a very unpoetic shadow, or a kind of better sort of will-o'-the-wisp, that could for its...
Page 157 - The tide serves, lads ! the tide serves : let us slip our drap o' brandy into the bit bonnie boat, and tottle away amang the sweet starlight as far as the Kingholm or the town quarry — ye ken we have to meet Bailie Gardevine, and Laird Soukaway o
Page 128 - Then let me wear it to-day," said the lovely girl, with tremulous voice ; and the bracelets were quickly transferred from their rose-coloured covering to the white satin of her arms. Otto resumed, after a short pause : " During my residence in Paris, I was almost daily in the habit of passing along the Pont-Neuf.