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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... engaged very briskly , two against one . The room was very dark , so that I could not easily know them asunder ; but being fully possessed with an opinion before of my captain's danger , I ran into the room with my sword in lay hand . I ...
... engaged very briskly , two against one . The room was very dark , so that I could not easily know them asunder ; but being fully possessed with an opinion before of my captain's danger , I ran into the room with my sword in lay hand . I ...
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... engaged , offered to retire ; but the king , beckoning with his hand , called to him in French . Cousin , says the king , this gentle- man has been travelling , and comes from Vienna , and so made me repeat what I had said before ; at ...
... engaged , offered to retire ; but the king , beckoning with his hand , called to him in French . Cousin , says the king , this gentle- man has been travelling , and comes from Vienna , and so made me repeat what I had said before ; at ...
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... engaged with a German colonel , whose name we could never learn , and having killed his man , and pressed very close upon him , so that he had shot his horse , the horse in the fall kept the colonel down , lying on one of his legs ...
... engaged with a German colonel , whose name we could never learn , and having killed his man , and pressed very close upon him , so that he had shot his horse , the horse in the fall kept the colonel down , lying on one of his legs ...
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... engaged by his goodness , as well as my own inclination , that if his majesty would please to accept of my devoir , I was resolved to serve in his army , or wherever he pleased to command me . Serve me ! says the king , why so you do ...
... engaged by his goodness , as well as my own inclination , that if his majesty would please to accept of my devoir , I was resolved to serve in his army , or wherever he pleased to command me . Serve me ! says the king , why so you do ...
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... engaged me so far at the battle of Leipsic , that being in the van of Sir John Hepburn's brigade , almost three whole companies of us were separated from our line , and surrounded by the enemies ' pikes . I cannot but say also , that we ...
... engaged me so far at the battle of Leipsic , that being in the van of Sir John Hepburn's brigade , almost three whole companies of us were separated from our line , and surrounded by the enemies ' pikes . I cannot but say also , that we ...
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