Readings from the Waverley NovelsLee and Shepard, 1888 |
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Abbot Amy Robsart answered apartment Argyle armor arms attend beautiful beneath Bertram betwixt brave Brian de Bois-Guilbert castle Catherine champion chap character command Covenanters Cromwell crusaders Dalgetty danger daughter death Dinmont Disinherited Knight door Duke Duke of Argyle Effie Elizabeth encounter escape exclaimed eyes fair father fear Front-de-Boeuf Grace Guy Mannering hand hath Hatteraick head heard heart Heart of Mid-Lothian Henry Seyton honor horse instantly Ivanhoe Jeanie Jeanie Deans Jewess Kenilworth King Lady Fleming lance Lindesay Lochleven look Lord Lovel madam marquis Mary master Melville Morton never noble Old Mortality person Prince John prisoner Queen Queen Caroline Ranald Rebecca replied Richard Roland Græme Rowena royal Saladin Saracen Scotland Scott seemed shield Sir Arthur sister soldiers sound spectators stood sword Templar thee Third Crusade thou art tion tower Tressilian turret Varney voice WAVERLEY NOVELS Wayland Smith weapon yonder young
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Página 81 - Templar aimed at the centre of his antagonist's shield, and struck it so fair and forcibly that his spear went to shivers, and the Disinherited Knight reeled in his saddle. On the other hand, that champion had in the beginning of his career directed the point of his lance...
Página 72 - Her form was exquisitely symmetrical, and was shown to advantage by a sort of Eastern dress, which she wore according to the fashion of the females of her nation. Her turban of yellow silk suited well with the darkness of her complexion. The brilliancy of her eyes, the superb arch of her eyebrows, her well-formed aquiline nose, her teeth as white as pearl...
Página 80 - A loud shout from the spectators, waving of scarfs and handkerchiefs, and general acclamations, attested the interest taken by the spectators in this encounter ; the most equal, as well as the best performed, which had graced the day. But no sooner had the knights resumed their station than the clamour of applause was hushed into a silence so deep and so dead, that it seemed the multitude were afraid even to breathe. A few minutes...
Página 40 - If it like you, madam," said Jeanie, 'I would hae gaen to the end of the earth to save the life of John Porteous, or any other unhappy man in his condition ; but I might lawfully doubt how far I am called upon to be the avenger of his blood, though it may become the civil magistrate to do so. He is dead and gane to his place, and they that have slain him must answer for their ain act. But my sister — my puir sister...
Página 92 - ... deals, you may hear them above all the din and shouts of the battle Stones and beams are hailed down on the bold champion - he regards them no more than if they were thistle-down or feathers!
Página 73 - ... southern extremities of the lists, accessible by strong wooden gates, each wide enough to admit two horsemen riding abreast. At each of these portals were stationed two heralds, attended by six trumpets, as many pursuivants, and a strong body of men-at-arms for maintaining order, and ascertaining the quality of the knights who proposed to engage in this martial game.
Página 52 - The Saracen came on at the speedy gallop of an Arab horseman, managing his steed more by his limbs, and the inflection of his body, than by any use of the reins, which hung loose in his left hand ; so that he was enabled to wield the light round buckler of the skin of the rhinoceros, ornamented with silver loops, which he wore on his arm, swinging it as if he meant to oppose its slender circle to the formidable thrust of the western lance.
Página 51 - Leopard continued to fix his eyes attentively on the yet distant cluster of palm-trees, it seemed to him as if some object was moving among them. The distant form separated itself from the trees, which partly hid its motions, and advanced towards the knight with a speed which soon showed a mounted horseman, whom his turban, long spear, and green caftan floating in the wind, on his nearer approach, showed to be a Saracen cavalier. * In the desert,' saith an 8 Eastern proverb, 'no man meets a friend.
Página 64 - King Arthur's sword, Excalibur, Wrought by the lonely maiden of the Lake. Nine years she wrought it, sitting in the deeps Upon the hidden bases of the hills.
Página 73 - The scene was singularly romantic. On the verge of a wood, which approached to within a mile of the town of Ashby, was an extensive meadow, of the finest and most beautiful green turf, surrounded on one side by the forest, and fringed on the other by straggling oaktrees, some of which had grown to an immense size.