Category: Historical Novels
singed wi' brimstone. I lurd rather deal wi' the thankless maltster, that neither gi'es coup, neivefu', nor lippie, than wi' him. I have no part of the breviary but a glorious preamble; kneel till I repeat it."
I want none of your gold, Douglas, I want none of your fee, But swear by the faith of thy right hand That you'll love only me: And I'll leave my country and my kin And wend alon...
2. CHAPTER II._Cor._ Alas! my lord, I could not. Their slumber was so deep, it seemed to me A sleep eternal. Not a sleep of death, But of extatic silence. Such a beam Of joy and happiness I n...
6. CHAPTER VII.Aboon his skins he sat and rockit, And fiercely up his bonnet cockit; Then at ha' doors he crousely knockit Withouten dread, Till wives and bairns around him flockit, But now he...
7. CHAPTER VIII.So they shot out and they shot in, Till the morn that it was day, When mony o' the Englishmen About the draw-brigg lay; When they hae yoket carts and wains, To ca' their dead aw...
3. CHAPTER IV.After the frightsome encounter at the mill, with "the masterless dog and his bow-wow-wow," Dan and his companions spent a sleepless night, not without several alarms and breathl...
8. CHAPTER IX.O I hae seen the gude auld day, The day o' pride and chieftain glory, When royal Stuarts bore the sway, And ne'er heard tell o' Whig nor Tory. Though lyart be my locks and gray,...
11. scene I had witnessed, as soon as the sun rose next morning I went outto the bowling-green, but found nothing there save the strangled body of the wretched woman,--a dismal and humbling sight,--squeezed almost to a jelly, and every bone broken as...
5. CHAPTER VI.We have now performed the waggoner's difficult and tedious task with great patience, and scarcely less discretion, having brought all the various groups of our _dramatis persona...
4. CHAPTER V.He can turn a man into a boy; A boy into an ass; He can change your gold into white moneye; Your white moneye into brass; He can turn our goodman to a beast With hoof, but, an'...
10. CHAPTER XII.Weel, ye see, my masters and mistresses, this is what I never expected to see. There is something sae grand in being in the presence of a King and Queen and their courtiers, tha...
1. mill. Ane had better tine the blind bitch's litter than hae the millsinged wi' brimstone. I lurd rather deal wi' the thankless maltster, that neither gi'es coup, neivefu', nor lippie, than wi' him. I have no part of the breviary but a glorious p...