The Pirate, 1 tomasNimmo, 1893 |
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ancient ANDREW LANG answered betwixt Bimbister boat brave Bryce Snailsfoot Burgh-Westra called Captain Cleveland Claud Halcro dance dark daunt Drows Dwarfie Stone father favour fear Fitful-head frae glorious John guests hand hear heard heart hospitality islands isles jagger Jarlshof John Dryden Kirkwall lady land Lerwick light look Magnus Troil mair Maister Mordaunt mansion master mind Minna Mistress Baby Mordaunt Mertoun never Norna Norse Norsemen occasion Odin old Norse once Orkney Papa Stour pedlar Pirate plough Ranzelman replied Mordaunt rock scarce Scart Scotland Scott seemed shore sister Skerry song speak stranger supposed Swertha swords tacksman tale tell thing thou thought Thule tion tone Triptole Triptolemus Yellowley Tronda Udaller vessel voice waves weel Westra wild wind woman words young youth Zetland
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x psl. - When sore beset at home in this way, he would every now and then discover that he had some very particular business to attend to on an outlying part of his estate ; and, craving the indulgence of his guests overnight, appear at the cabin in the glen before its inhabitants were astir in the morning. The clatter of Sibyl Grey's hoofs, the yelping of Mustard and Spice, and his own joyous shout of reveillee under our windows, were the signal that he had burst his toils, and meant for that day to "take...
32 psl. - SHE walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies ; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes : Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
309 psl. - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence ? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate.
289 psl. - I pass, like night, from land to land; I have strange power of speech ; That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me: To him my tale I teach.
ix psl. - We were near enough Abbotsford to partake as often as we liked of its brilliant society ; yet could do so without being exposed to the worry and exhaustion of spirit which the daily reception of newcomers entailed upon all the family except Sir Walter himself.
238 psl. - I fear, too early : for my mind misgives, Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, Shall bitterly begin his fearful date With this night's revels...
326 psl. - ... time for it. The woman's dwelling and appearance were not unbecoming her pretensions: her house, which was on the brow of the steep hill on which Stromness is founded, was only accessible by a series of dirty and precipitous lanes, and for exposure might have been the abode of Eolus himself, in whose commodities the inhabitant dealt.
122 psl. - He was a lovely youth ! I guess The panther in the wilderness Was not so fair as he ; And, when he chose to sport and play, No dolphin ever was so gay Upon the tropic sea.
ix psl. - Even his temper sank sometimes under the solemn applauses of learned dulness, the vapid raptures of painted and periwigged dowagers, the horseleech avidity with which underbred foreigners urged their questions, and the pompous simpers of condescending magnates. When sore beset...