Historical romances of the author of Waverley, Volume 2 |
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... brethren , such a fool shall never want a wise clerk to pray for or fight for him at a strait , while I can say a mass or flourish a partisan . " And with that he made his heavy halbert to play around his head as a shepherd boy ...
... brethren , such a fool shall never want a wise clerk to pray for or fight for him at a strait , while I can say a mass or flourish a partisan . " And with that he made his heavy halbert to play around his head as a shepherd boy ...
Page 67
... brethren , and restore my mails , send with all speed an hundred crowns to be expended in masses at the high altar of Jorvaulx Abbey , and make your vow to eat no venison until next Pentecost , it may be you shall JVANHOE . 67 CHAPTER ...
... brethren , and restore my mails , send with all speed an hundred crowns to be expended in masses at the high altar of Jorvaulx Abbey , and make your vow to eat no venison until next Pentecost , it may be you shall JVANHOE . 67 CHAPTER ...
Page 84
... brethren attending upon me , and also of the gymmal rings , jewels , and fair vestures , of which I have been despoiled , having now satisfied you for my ransom as a true prisoner . " " Touching your brethren , Sir Prior , " said Locks ...
... brethren attending upon me , and also of the gymmal rings , jewels , and fair vestures , of which I have been despoiled , having now satisfied you for my ransom as a true prisoner . " " Touching your brethren , Sir Prior , " said Locks ...
Page 86
... brethren to such terms ? -Keep thine assu- rance of peace , Friar . Prior , an thou hast not made thy peace with God , provoke the Friar no further . - Hermit , let the reverend father in God depart in peace , as a ransomed man . " The ...
... brethren to such terms ? -Keep thine assu- rance of peace , Friar . Prior , an thou hast not made thy peace with God , provoke the Friar no further . - Hermit , let the reverend father in God depart in peace , as a ransomed man . " The ...
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... brethren . This deficiency was likely to prove perilous in an emer- gency so critical . It was on the morning after the fall of Torquil- stone , that a confused report began to spread abroad in the city of York , that De Bracy and Bois ...
... brethren . This deficiency was likely to prove perilous in an emer- gency so critical . It was on the morning after the fall of Torquil- stone , that a confused report began to spread abroad in the city of York , that De Bracy and Bois ...
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Abbot Albert answered arms Athelstane Avenel Beaumanoir better betwixt Black Knight blood Bracy brethren Brian de Bois-Guilbert brother called Captain castle Cedric champion church companion Dame Elspeth Dame Glendinning daughter death evil exclaimed eyes Father Eustace Father Philip fear Fitzurse Friar Friar Tuck Front-de-Bœuf glen Glendearg Grand Master Gurth hand hath head heart Heaven Holy Order honour horse Isaac Ivanhoe Jedediah Cleishbotham Jewess King knave knowest lance Locksley look maiden Malvoisin Monastery Monk never noble Order Outlaw pray Preceptor priest Prince John Prior ransom Rebecca replied reverend father Richard Richard Plantagenet Rowena Sacristan Saint Dunstan Saint George Saint Mary's Saxon shew Sir Knight stranger Sub-Prior sword tell Templar Temple Templestowe thee ther thine thou art thou dost thou hast thou shalt thou wilt Tibb tion tower voice Waldemar Wamba Wilfred woman words yeoman
Popular passages
Page 312 - His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Page 19 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man, As modest stillness, and humility : But when the blast of war...
Page 19 - And you, good yeomen, Whose limbs were made in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture; let us swear That you are worth your breeding— which I doubt not; For there is none of you so mean and base That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
Page 182 - With priest's and warrior's voice between. No portents now our foes amaze, Forsaken Israel wanders lone : Our fathers would not know Thy ways, And Thou hast left them to their own. But present still, though now unseen ! When brightly shines the...
Page 183 - To temper the deceitful ray. And oh, when stoops on Judah's path In shade and storm the frequent night, Be THOU, long-suffering, slow to wrath, A burning, and a shining light! Our harps we left by Babel's streams, The tyrant's jest, the Gentile's scorn; No censer round our altar beams, And mute our timbrel, trump, and horn.