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 163
... stranger of her own sex without some apprehension . Denaturalized wo- men had as usual followed the camps of both armies during the Civil War ; who on the one side with open profligacy and profanity , on the other with the fraudful tone ...
... stranger of her own sex without some apprehension . Denaturalized wo- men had as usual followed the camps of both armies during the Civil War ; who on the one side with open profligacy and profanity , on the other with the fraudful tone ...
Page 164
... successful robbery . Her size , too , as did not escape Alice , even in the short perusal she afforded the stranger , was unusual ; her features swarthy and singularly harsh , and her manner altogether unpropitious 164 WOODSTOCK .
... successful robbery . Her size , too , as did not escape Alice , even in the short perusal she afforded the stranger , was unusual ; her features swarthy and singularly harsh , and her manner altogether unpropitious 164 WOODSTOCK .
Page 165
... stranger , with no un- friendly , though a harsh voice . “ I thank you , ” said Alice in reply ; and con- tinued to fill her pitcher busily , by assistance of an iron bowl which remained still chained to one of the stones beside the ...
... stranger , with no un- friendly , though a harsh voice . “ I thank you , ” said Alice in reply ; and con- tinued to fill her pitcher busily , by assistance of an iron bowl which remained still chained to one of the stones beside the ...
Page 166
... stranger ; " that was far from my purpose . -I will put my question otherwise — Are the good dames of Woodstock so careless of their pretty daughters as to let the flower of them all wander about the wild chase without a mother , or a ...
... stranger ; " that was far from my purpose . -I will put my question otherwise — Are the good dames of Woodstock so careless of their pretty daughters as to let the flower of them all wander about the wild chase without a mother , or a ...
Page 167
... stranger his eyes that glanced fire , raising every hair on his gallant mane as upright as the bristles of a wild boar when hard pressed , grinning till a case of teeth , which would have matched those of any wolf in Russia , were ...
... stranger his eyes that glanced fire , raising every hair on his gallant mane as upright as the bristles of a wild boar when hard pressed , grinning till a case of teeth , which would have matched those of any wolf in Russia , were ...
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Page 56 - Now it is the time of night, That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide.
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