Wilson's Tales of the Borders, and of Scotland: Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative, Volumes 3-4W. Scott, 1888 |
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Page 61
... bell , with a noise like the rushing of a mighty army . But the alarm was greater on the side of the creatures them- selves : on observing the bell with the men in it , they lashed their tails with fearful fury , till the waters seemed ...
... bell , with a noise like the rushing of a mighty army . But the alarm was greater on the side of the creatures them- selves : on observing the bell with the men in it , they lashed their tails with fearful fury , till the waters seemed ...
Page 79
... bell was wrought . It was a creaking , crashing sound , as if the bell were forcing up some heavy piece of wood with which it was encumbered . The thought struck me instantly that the cause of all our misfortunes lay in the drifting of ...
... bell was wrought . It was a creaking , crashing sound , as if the bell were forcing up some heavy piece of wood with which it was encumbered . The thought struck me instantly that the cause of all our misfortunes lay in the drifting of ...
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... bell ascending ; and a fierce whirling and boiling of the waters rushing into the void , would in an instant have sucked him down to rise no more , if I had not seized him by the bushy hair of the head . In that position I held him as ...
... bell ascending ; and a fierce whirling and boiling of the waters rushing into the void , would in an instant have sucked him down to rise no more , if I had not seized him by the bushy hair of the head . In that position I held him as ...
Contents
WIDOW OF DUNSKAITII Hugh Miller | 1 |
THE WHITSOME TRAGEDY John Mackay Wilson | 20 |
THE SURGEONS TALES Alexander Leighton | 53 |
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