Novels and Miscellaneous Works: With Prefaces and Notes, Including Those Attributed to Sir Walter Scott, Volume 2G. Bell and Sons, 1885 |
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... called him captain , though it be a very un- usual title in a college ; but fate had some hand in the title , for he had certainly the lines of a soldier drawn in his coun- tenance . I imparted to him the resolutions I had taken , and ...
... called him captain , though it be a very un- usual title in a college ; but fate had some hand in the title , for he had certainly the lines of a soldier drawn in his coun- tenance . I imparted to him the resolutions I had taken , and ...
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... called captain , had no room to question , but it was he that sent for me ; and crying out hastily to him , Where ? followed the fellow as fast as it was possible . He led me through several passages which I knew not , and at last ...
... called captain , had no room to question , but it was he that sent for me ; and crying out hastily to him , Where ? followed the fellow as fast as it was possible . He led me through several passages which I knew not , and at last ...
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... called up our landlord , and he as quickly called in his neighbours , that I had a room full of people about me in a quarter of an hour . But this had liked to have been of worse consequence to me than the other ; for by this time there ...
... called up our landlord , and he as quickly called in his neighbours , that I had a room full of people about me in a quarter of an hour . But this had liked to have been of worse consequence to me than the other ; for by this time there ...
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... called about miles from Orleans , where there was no surgeon to be had , but a sorry country barber , who never- theless dressed me as well as he could , and in about a week more I was able to walk to Orleans at three times . Here I ...
... called about miles from Orleans , where there was no surgeon to be had , but a sorry country barber , who never- theless dressed me as well as he could , and in about a week more I was able to walk to Orleans at three times . Here I ...
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... called ourselves Scots ; for as the English were very much out of favour in France at this time , the peace having been made not many months , and not supposed to be very durable , because parti- cularly displeasing to the people of ...
... called ourselves Scots ; for as the English were very much out of favour in France at this time , the peace having been made not many months , and not supposed to be very durable , because parti- cularly displeasing to the people of ...
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