Waverley Novels, Volume 1Ticknor and Fields, 1867 |
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acquainted Alice ancient answered Bucklaw appearance auld Baldoon better betwixt BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR Caleb Balderston called castle cauld character companion Dalrymple dame daughter Dick Tinto dinner exclaimed expression Fast Castle father favour fear feeling frae gentleman Girder gude guests hand Hayston head heard honour hope horse house of Ravenswood impatience JEDEDIAH CLEISHBOTHAM Kirkinner Lady Ashton Lightbody Lockhard look Lord Bittlebrains Lord Keeper Lord of Ravenswood Lord Ravenswood Lord Rutherford Lord Stair lordship Lucy Marquis Master of Ravens Master of Ravenswood means mind Miss Ashton Mysie never night noble observed occasion person pleasure present recollection scene Scotland Scottish seemed seneschal shew sion Sir William Ashton sliddery stranger suld suppose thing thought tion Tower of Wolf's turn venison village voice weel whilk Wolf's Crag Wolf's-hope woman wood words young Ravenswood
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Page 8 - And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.
Page 70 - Ravenswood people, because she lived under them so many years. But I am sure she is grateful to you, sir, for your protection, and that she would rather speak to you, than to any other person in the whole World beside. Do, sir, come and see old Alice.
Page 8 - If a woman also vow a vow unto the Lord, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father's house in her youth; And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.
Page 117 - The pale moon, which had hitherto been contending with flitting clouds, now shone out, and gave them a view of the solitary and naked tower, situated on a projecting cliff that beetled on the German Ocean. On three sides the rock was precipitous ; on the fourth, which...
Page 61 - ... concert of birds among the leafy bowers. The statesman, though little accustomed to give way to emotions of this natural and simple class, was still a man and a father. He stopped, therefore, and listened, while the silver tones of Lucy Ashton's voice mingled with the accompaniment in an ancient air, to which some one had adapted the following words: "Look not thou on beauty's charming, Sit thou still when kings are arming, Taste not when the wine-cup glistens, Speak not when the people listens,...
Page 8 - But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.