Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier: A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one, Volume 2Archibald Constable and Company Edinburgh; and Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London., 1826 - 370 pages |
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Page 66
... arms , which he found close beside him . His tempo- rary bed being without curtains , he could look around him without difficulty ; but as there re- mained in the chimney only a few red embers of the fire , which he had arranged before ...
... arms , which he found close beside him . His tempo- rary bed being without curtains , he could look around him without difficulty ; but as there re- mained in the chimney only a few red embers of the fire , which he had arranged before ...
Page 70
... arm which threw him backward on the floor - if the remembrance served to contradict the idea of flitting phantoms , and unreal dag- gers , it certainly induced him to believe , that there was in some part of this extensive mansion a ...
... arm which threw him backward on the floor - if the remembrance served to contradict the idea of flitting phantoms , and unreal dag- gers , it certainly induced him to believe , that there was in some part of this extensive mansion a ...
Page 77
... arm in an attitude of scorn ; and a loud laugh arose , during which the light , as gradually growing weaker , danced and glimmered upon the apparition of the aged knight , and then disappeared . Everard's life - blood ran cold to his ...
... arm in an attitude of scorn ; and a loud laugh arose , during which the light , as gradually growing weaker , danced and glimmered upon the apparition of the aged knight , and then disappeared . Everard's life - blood ran cold to his ...
Page 98
... arms every half hour , when so much as a cat trotted by one of their posts - He would rather , he said , " have slept among a whole Sabbath of witches , if such creatures could be found . " " Then you think there are no such things as ...
... arms every half hour , when so much as a cat trotted by one of their posts - He would rather , he said , " have slept among a whole Sabbath of witches , if such creatures could be found . " " Then you think there are no such things as ...
Page 127
... arms and hands . —I heard the heavy fall into the bottomless abyss below . - Excuse me - I cannot go on . " " He may have escaped . " " Oh ! no , no , no - the tower was four stories in height . Even those who threw themselves into the ...
... arms and hands . —I heard the heavy fall into the bottomless abyss below . - Excuse me - I cannot go on . " " He may have escaped . " " Oh ! no , no , no - the tower was four stories in height . Even those who threw themselves into the ...
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