Dermot O'Brien, Or, The Taking of Tredagh: A Tale of 1649Stringer & Townsend, 1849 - 166 pages |
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... , it is true ; but the pistol - locks were not uncocked , nor were the swords put up into their scabbards . The brows , too , which looked of late so balefully upon the stranger , still gloomed upon him OR THE TAKING OF TREDAGH . 15.
... , it is true ; but the pistol - locks were not uncocked , nor were the swords put up into their scabbards . The brows , too , which looked of late so balefully upon the stranger , still gloomed upon him OR THE TAKING OF TREDAGH . 15.
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... looked upon the other with that air of half - scornful , half - loathing cu- riosity with which men are wont to regard some insignificant , but venomous and hateful reptile ; while O'Neil gazed stead- fastly , but gloomily , on the turf ...
... looked upon the other with that air of half - scornful , half - loathing cu- riosity with which men are wont to regard some insignificant , but venomous and hateful reptile ; while O'Neil gazed stead- fastly , but gloomily , on the turf ...
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... looked for liberty ; I have found persecution where I looked for toleration ; and when I found at last that the whole force of Cromwell and his iron army were about to be turned against my native land , I and a few bold spirits resisted ...
... looked for liberty ; I have found persecution where I looked for toleration ; and when I found at last that the whole force of Cromwell and his iron army were about to be turned against my native land , I and a few bold spirits resisted ...
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... looked to with some care , and the little party got to horse and proceeded on their homeward route , with graver faces and less buoyant hearts than they had ridden forth in the morning . The young Earl of Thomond - for such was the true ...
... looked to with some care , and the little party got to horse and proceeded on their homeward route , with graver faces and less buoyant hearts than they had ridden forth in the morning . The young Earl of Thomond - for such was the true ...
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... looked a man of forty years , he had not , probably , passed his thirty - second sum- mer . In person he was very tall , measuring considerably over six feet in height , admirably built , and broad - shouldered in proportion to his ...
... looked a man of forty years , he had not , probably , passed his thirty - second sum- mer . In person he was very tall , measuring considerably over six feet in height , admirably built , and broad - shouldered in proportion to his ...
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Dermot O'brien, Or the Taking of Tredagh: A Tale of 1649 (Classic Reprint) Henry William Herbert No preview available - 2016 |
Dermot O'brien, Or the Taking of Tredagh: A Tale of 1649 (Classic Reprint) Henry William Herbert No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 94 - Then bugle's note and cannon's roar the death-like silence broke, And with one start, and with one cry, the royal city woke.
Page 95 - Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past; which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done...
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Page 137 - He faded, and so calm and meek, So softly worn, so sweetly weak, So tearless, yet so tender — kind, And grieved for those he left behind; With all the while a cheek whose bloom Was as a mockery of the tomb...
Page 26 - DAY set on Norham's castled steep,* And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's mountains lone : The battled towers, the donjon keep,* The loophole grates, where captives weep, The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone.
Page 137 - I've seen the sick and ghastly bed Of Sin delirious with its dread: But these were horrors — this was woe Unmix'd with such — but sure and slow. He faded, and so calm and meek, So softly worn, so sweetly weak, So tearless, yet so tender — kind, And grieved for those he left behind...