The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from the World's Great Writers, Ancient, Mediaeval, and Modern, with Biographical and Explanatory Notes and with Introductions, Volume 14 |
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Page 6595
... roundhouse , and I set eyes on him for the first time , he looked as cool as I did . He was smallish in stature , but well set and as nimble as a goat ; his face was of a good open expression , but sunburnt very dark , and heavily ...
... roundhouse , and I set eyes on him for the first time , he looked as cool as I did . He was smallish in stature , but well set and as nimble as a goat ; his face was of a good open expression , but sunburnt very dark , and heavily ...
Page 6597
... roundhouse , I found the gentleman had taken a money belt from about his waist , and poured out a guinea or two upon the table . The captain was looking at the guineas , and then at the belt , and then at the gentleman's face ; and I ...
... roundhouse , I found the gentleman had taken a money belt from about his waist , and poured out a guinea or two upon the table . The captain was looking at the guineas , and then at the belt , and then at the gentleman's face ; and I ...
Page 6600
... roundhouse and saw the Jacobite eating his supper under the lamp ; and at that my mind was made up all in a moment . I have no credit by it ; it was by no choice of mine , but as if by compulsion , that I walked right up to the table ...
... roundhouse and saw the Jacobite eating his supper under the lamp ; and at that my mind was made up all in a moment . I have no credit by it ; it was by no choice of mine , but as if by compulsion , that I walked right up to the table ...
Page 6604
... roundhouse . I believe he died as they were doing it . " There's one of your Whigs for ye ! " cried Alan ; and then turning to me , he asked if I had done much execution . I told him I had winged one , and thought it was the captain ...
... roundhouse . I believe he died as they were doing it . " There's one of your Whigs for ye ! " cried Alan ; and then turning to me , he asked if I had done much execution . I told him I had winged one , and thought it was the captain ...
Page 6605
... roundhouse wall , and knew they were taking their places in the dark , I could have found it in my mind to cry out aloud . All this was upon Alan's side ; and I had begun to think my share of the fight was at an end , when I heard some ...
... roundhouse wall , and knew they were taking their places in the dark , I could have found it in my mind to cry out aloud . All this was upon Alan's side ; and I had begun to think my share of the fight was at an end , when I heard some ...
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Page 6724 - From that chamber, clothed in white, The bride came forth on' her wedding night ; There, in that silent room below, The dead lay in his shroud of snow ; And in the hush that followed the prayer, Was heard the old clock on the stair, — ' ' Forever — never ! Never — forever...
Page 6616 - And if thou said'st I am not peer To any lord in Scotland here, Lowland or Highland, far or near, Lord Angus, thou hast lied!
Page 6669 - Lo !. the death-shot of foemen outspeeding, he rode Companionless, bearing destruction abroad ; But down let him stoop from his havoc on high ! Ah ! home let him speed — for the spoiler is nigh. Why flames the far summit? Why shoot to the blast, Those embers, like stars from the firmament cast ? 'Tis the fire-shower of ruin, all dreadfully driven From his eyrie, that beacons the darkness of heaven. Oh, crested Lochiel ! the peerless in might, Whose banners arise on the battlements...
Page 6812 - Returning where my walk begun, Avoiding only, as I trod, My brothers' graves without a sod; For if I thought with heedless tread My step profaned their lowly bed, My breath came gaspingly and thick, And my crush'd heart fell blind and sick.
Page 6553 - ... man about always betting on anything that turned up you ever see, if he could get anybody to bet on the other side; and if he couldn't he'd change sides. Any way that suited the other man would suit him — any way just so's he got a bet, he was satisfied. But still he was lucky, uncommon lucky; he most always come out winner. He was always ready and laying for a chance; there couldn't be no solit'ry thing mentioned but that feller'd offer to bet on it, and take ary side you please, as I was...
Page 6810 - A light broke in upon my brain,— It was the carol of a bird ; It ceased, and then it came again, The sweetest song ear ever heard, And mine was thankful till my eyes...
Page 6806 - With tears for naught but others' ills; And then they flowed like mountain rills, Unless he could assuage the woe Which he abhorred to view below. v The other was as pure of mind, But formed to combat with his kind; Strong in his frame, and of a mood Which 'gainst the world in war had stood, And perished in the foremost rank With joy; but not in chains to pine.
Page 6807 - A double dungeon wall and wave Have made — and like a living grave. Below the surface of the lake The dark vault lies wherein we lay, We heard it ripple night and day; Sounding o'er our heads it knock'd; And I have felt the winter's spray Wash through the bars when winds were high...
Page 6626 - O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow A ministering angel thou...
Page 6473 - Kneel undisturbed, fair saint ! Pour out your praise or plaint Meekly and duly ; I will not enter there, To sully your pure prayer With thoughts unruly. But suffer me to pace Round the forbidden place, Lingering a minute Like outcast spirits who wait And see through Heaven's gate Angels within it.