 | Walter Scott - 1816 - 390 pages
...answered the fisher gruffly, " unless I wanted to see four children starve, because ane is drowned r' It's weel wi' you gentles, that can sit in the house...when ye lose a friend; but the like o' us maun to our warks again, if oar hearts were beating as hard as my hammer." Without taking more notice of (Wdfruck... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1821 - 256 pages
...answered the fisher gruffly, « unless I wanted to see four children starve, because ane is drowned? It's weel wi' you gentles, that can sit in the house...when ye lose a friend; but the like o' us maun to our \varks again, if our hearts were heating as hard as my hammer. » Without taking more notice of Oldbnck... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 514 pages
...answered the fisher gruffly, " unless I wanted to see four children starve, because ane is drowned ? It's weel wi' you gentles, that can sit in the house...ye lose a friend ; but the like o' us maun to our warks again, if our hearts were beating as hard as my hammer." Without taking more notice of Oldbuck... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1823 - 392 pages
...four bairns starve, because ane is drowned ? It's weel wi' you gen. ties, that can sit in thuJiousc wi' handkerchers at your een when ye lose a friend ; but the like o' us maun to our warks again, if our hearts were beating as hard as my hummer." Without taking more notice of Oldbuck,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1829 - 356 pages
...in a tone of sympathy — " I am glad, Saunders, that you feel yourself able to make this exertion." wi' you gentles, that can sit in the house wi' handkerchers...wark again, if our hearts were beating as hard as my hammer." Without taking more notice of Oldbuck he proceeded in his labour ; and the Antiquary, to... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 294 pages
...would you have me to do. • unless I wanted to see four children starve, because one is drowned ? Ifs weel wi' you gentles, that can sit in the house wi'...wark again, if our hearts were beating as hard as my hammer." It may be worth noting, that it was in correcting the proof-sheets of this novel that Scott... | |
 | 1837 - 598 pages
...flowed from his pen. unless I wanted to see four children starve, because one is drowned ? Ifs weel wV you gentles, that can sit in the house wi' handkerchers...wark again, if our hearts were beating as hard as my hammer." Unlike, I believe, most men, whenever Scott neared the end of one composition, his spirits... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 408 pages
...four children starve, because one is drowned ? if 3 weel wi' you gentles, that can sit in the house wf handkerchers at your een, when ye lose a friend ;...wark again, if our hearts were beating as hard as my hammer." It may be worth noting, that it was in correcting the » 14 LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT. proof-sheets... | |
 | 1837 - 828 pages
...four children starve, because one is drowned ? it's well wf you gentles, that can sit in the house wf handkerchers at your een, when ye lose a friend; but the like o' us maun to our tvarh again, if our hearts were beating as hard as my hammer.' " It may be worth noting, that it was... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 428 pages
...starve, because one is drowned ? it's weel wi you gentles, that can sit in the house wt kandjeerchers at your een, when ye lose a friend; but the like o' us maun to our wark again*ifour hearts were beating as hard as my hammer." . . .• • It may be worth noting, that it... | |
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... us maun to our wark again, if our hearts were beating as hard as my hammer. 
