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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... expected under such a fright , flew to the walls , twice beat the imperialists off , but fresh men coming up , and the administrator of Magdeburgh himself being wounded and taken , the enemy broke in , took the city by storm , and ...
... expected under such a fright , flew to the walls , twice beat the imperialists off , but fresh men coming up , and the administrator of Magdeburgh himself being wounded and taken , the enemy broke in , took the city by storm , and ...
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... expected the city would surrender that day , or next , and they might have capitulated upon very good terms . Being upon the works of the fort , on a sudden I heard the dreadfulest cry raised in the city that can be imagined ; ' tis not ...
... expected the city would surrender that day , or next , and they might have capitulated upon very good terms . Being upon the works of the fort , on a sudden I heard the dreadfulest cry raised in the city that can be imagined ; ' tis not ...
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... expected no mercy wherever he came . The emperor's power was made so formidable to all the protestants , particularly since the diet at Ratisbon left them in a worse case than it found them , that they had not only formed the ...
... expected no mercy wherever he came . The emperor's power was made so formidable to all the protestants , particularly since the diet at Ratisbon left them in a worse case than it found them , that they had not only formed the ...
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... expects to rise by his valour , he must show it somewhere ; and if I were to have any command of an army , I would first try whether I could deserve it ; I have never yet seen any service , and must have my induction some time or other ...
... expects to rise by his valour , he must show it somewhere ; and if I were to have any command of an army , I would first try whether I could deserve it ; I have never yet seen any service , and must have my induction some time or other ...
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... expected it would be a long piece of work . The castle stood on a high rock , and on the steep of the rock was a bastion , which de- fended the only passage up the hill into the castle ; the Scots were chose out to make this attack ...
... expected it would be a long piece of work . The castle stood on a high rock , and on the steep of the rock was a bastion , which de- fended the only passage up the hill into the castle ; the Scots were chose out to make this attack ...
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