The Sword of Dundee: A Tale of "bonnie Prince Charlie" |
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66 CHAPTER Agnes Leslie Agnes's Angus Angus MacDonald Auchnacarry beauty Bell Gordon Betty Burke bonnie brave breast breath cairngorms Castle caught Charles clans clasped claymore colour Countess of Menteith cried Culloden Cumberland dare dark death dinna Donald Cameron dreadful dream drew Duke Dundee Edinburgh exclaimed eyes face fair fate fear foes Fort Augustus Gaelic gaze girl girl's glance Grace grave grey ha'e hair hand head heart heather Heaven Highland Holyrood honour horse Jacobite Kenneth Kenneth Campbell King Kingsburgh kissed laddie Lady Cromarty lassie lips Loch Arkaig Lochaber Locheil look Lord MacDonald MacLeod maid Mistress Campbell Mistress Leslie Moidart murmured Murray never night Norman Leslie passionate paused plaid Prince Charlie Prince's rose Royal Highness sank Scot Scotland shadows shuddering Sir Hugh smile stood strange Stuart sweet sword tartan turned twas voice Whig whispered wild words young
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Page 163 - He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.
Page 355 - Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee ; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die ; 12 And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
Page 302 - We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners : the LORD fulfil all thy petitions. 6 Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed ; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.
Page 163 - And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them ? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily.
Page 355 - Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more : and they are cut off from thy hand.
Page 65 - And like reapers descend to the harvest of death. Then welcome be Cumberland's steed to the shock ! Let him dash his proud foam...
Page 228 - I'll gie John Ross another bawbee, To boat me o'er to Charlie. W7e'll o'er the water and o'er the sea, We'll o'er the water to Charlie ; Come weal, come woe, we'll gather and go, And live or die wi
Page 355 - I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up : while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
Page 118 - She's gane, like Alexander, To spread her conquests farther. To see her is to love her, And love but her for ever ; For nature made her what she is, And ne'er made sic anither ! Thou art a queen, fair Lesley, Thy subjects we, before thee ; Thou art divine, fair Lesley, The hearts o
Page 217 - BE MERCIFUL unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.