 Candles put out as before. They had the said bitch with them again, but were not by that protected: the bitch set up a very piteous cry; the clothes of their beds were all pulled off; and the bricks, without any wind, were thrown off the chimney tops...  Waverly Novels: St. Rowan's well - Page xiby Walter Scott - 1852Full view - About this book
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...howled piteoufly, their bed-cloaths wer« all (tripped olf, and their terror increafed. On the t^th, they thought all the wood of the King's oak was violently thrown down by (heir bed-fides, they counted 64 billets that fell, and fome hit and Ihook the beds in which they lay... | |
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