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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... gave us wine and bread , and entertained us with wonderful courtesy . After this he sent into the village , hired a peasant and a horse for my captain , and sent him to guide us into the road . At parting , he made a great many ...
... gave us wine and bread , and entertained us with wonderful courtesy . After this he sent into the village , hired a peasant and a horse for my captain , and sent him to guide us into the road . At parting , he made a great many ...
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... gave out bills this way , and boxes of physic that way , and had a great trade , when on a sudden the people raised a cry , Larron , Larron ( in Eng- lish , Thief , Thief ) , on the other side the street , and all the auditors ran away ...
... gave out bills this way , and boxes of physic that way , and had a great trade , when on a sudden the people raised a cry , Larron , Larron ( in Eng- lish , Thief , Thief ) , on the other side the street , and all the auditors ran away ...
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... gave . I ran away very fairly one of the first , and my companion with me , and by the goodness of our horses got out of the fray , and beiug not much known in the army , we came into the camp an hour or two after , as if we had been ...
... gave . I ran away very fairly one of the first , and my companion with me , and by the goodness of our horses got out of the fray , and beiug not much known in the army , we came into the camp an hour or two after , as if we had been ...
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... gave me over , as past all remedy , but by the good providence of God the swelling broke . The prodigious collection of matter which this swelling dis- charged , gave me immediate relief , and I became sensible in less than an hour's ...
... gave me over , as past all remedy , but by the good providence of God the swelling broke . The prodigious collection of matter which this swelling dis- charged , gave me immediate relief , and I became sensible in less than an hour's ...
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... gave the world so great and just a character of the Spanish infantry , as the best soldiers of the world ; a character which we see them so very much de- generated from since , that they hardly deserve the name of soldiers . I tarried ...
... gave the world so great and just a character of the Spanish infantry , as the best soldiers of the world ; a character which we see them so very much de- generated from since , that they hardly deserve the name of soldiers . I tarried ...
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