Tales of my landlord, collected and arranged by Jedediah Cleishbotham, Band 2 |
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Seite 207 - her." CHAPTER VIII. I am a son of Mars who have been in many wars, And shew my cuts and scars wherever I come; This here was for a wench, and that other in a trench. When welcoming the French at the sound of the
Seite 149 - forbye the treasurers, the counsellors, and the sheriffs, were warned to the dedication thereof, and commanded to fall down and worship at the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of music." " And what o' a' this, ye fule wife? Or what had Nebuchadnezzar to do with the wappen-schaw of the Upper Ward of Clydesdale?
Seite 151 - a new-fangled machine* for dighting the corn frae the chaff, thus impiously thwarting the will of Divine ' Providence, by raising ' wind for your leddyship's ain particular use by human art, instead of soliciting it by prayer, or waiting* patiently for whatever dispensation of wind Providence was pleased to
Seite 126 - the sons of Adam from the day they go out of their mother's womb till the day that they return to the mother of all things; from him who is clothed in blue silk and weareth a crown, even to him who
Seite 14 - letters of the inscription, which, announcing in scriptural language, the promised blessings of futurity to be the lot of the slain, anathematized the murderers with corresponding violence. A blue bonnet of unusual dimensions covered the grey hairs of the pious workman. His dress was a large old-fashioned coat of the coarse cloth called
Seite 13 - As I approached I was agreeably undeceived. An old man was seated upon the monument of the slaughtered presbyterians, and busily employed in deepening, with his chisel, the / * I deem it fitting that the reader should be apprised, that this limitary boundary between the conterminous. heritable property of his honour the Laird of
Seite 12 - One summer evening, as in a stroll, such as I have described, I approached this deserted mansion of the dead, I was somewhat surprised to hear sounds distinct from those which usually sooth its solitude, the gentle chiding, namely, of the brook, and the sighing of the wind in the boughs of three /gigantic ash-trees,
Seite 20 - was now employed. To talk of the exploits. of the Covenanters was the delight, as to repair their monuments was the business, of his life. He was profuse in the communication of all the minute information which he had collected concerning them, their wars, and their wanderings. One would almost have supposed he must have been
Seite 175 - her for consenting even tacitly to belie her religious sentiments, was in a strange quandary. The other servants quaked for they knew not well what. Cuddie alone, with the look of supreme indifference and stupidity which a Scottish peasant can at times assume as a masque for considerable shrewdness and craft, continued to swallow
Seite 21 - And now they are gripping to the bow and to the spear, when they suld be mourning for a sinfu' land and a broken covenant.' ••' " Soothing the old man by letting his peculiar opinions pass without contradiction, and anxious to prolong conversation with so singular a character, I prevailed upon him to accept that