 | 1863 - 622 pages
...flood, and the flood a storm, and the storm a tempest, and the tempest thunder and lightningr.and the thunder and lightning heavenquake and earthquake, till the heart of poor wee Kit quakes and almost dies within him.' We see distinctly ' the. small brown moorland bird, as dry as a... | |
 | 1863 - 640 pages
...flood, and the flood a storm, and the storm a tempest, and the tempest thunder and lightning, and the thunder and lightning heavenquake and earthquake, till the heart of poor wee Sit quakes and almost dies within him." We sec distinctly " the small brown moorland bird, as dry as... | |
 | Charles Francis Trower - 1852 - 486 pages
...and Injunctions, and 'Laches' looked small in the midst of a Life in the Highlands ! CHAPTER VII. " As ' a trot becomes a gallop soon, in spite of curb...thunder and lightning, heaven-quake and earth-quake." Recreations of CHRISTOPHER NORTH. |USAN Ritchie's information was correct. A large and brilliant party... | |
 | John Wilson - 1858 - 322 pages
...impenetrable to the feet of fear as the stone dungeon's thraldom. If the mist had remained, that wonld have been nothing; only a still cold wet seat on a...of Confessions, need we be ashamed to own, in the faee of the whole world, that we sat us down and cried ! The small brown Moorland bird, as dry as a... | |
 | Edward Bradley - 1861 - 470 pages
...described these Highland mists and tempests. He speaks of the mist overtaking him on the moor, and holding him prisoner for many hours within its shifting walls,...thunder and lightning heavenquake and earthquake." * And, in the following fine passage, he describes an abundance of rain after a season of great drought:... | |
 | Simon Kerl - 1861 - 372 pages
...! I defy the honorable gentleman! I defy the government 1 I defy their whole phalanx!"—Orattan. 4 'A Scotch mist becomes a shower; and a shower, a flood; and a flood, a Morm; and a storm, a tempest; and a tempest, thunder and lightning; and thunder and lightning, heaveu-quake... | |
 | 1862 - 894 pages
...thraldom. If the mist had remained, that would have been nothing ; only a still cold and wet seat on & stone ; but as ' a trot becomes a gallop soon, in...poor wee Kit quaked and almost died within him * In witness of his keen passion for angling in middle-life, take the following jottings from his own hands.... | |
 | Simon Kerl - 1862 - 430 pages
...I defy the honorable gentleman II defy the government 1 1 defy their whole phalanx !" — Grattan. "A Scotch mist becomes a shower; and a shower, a flood; and a flood, I Btorm; and a storm, a tempest; and a tempest, thunder and lightning; and thunder and lightning, heaven-quake... | |
 | 1863 - 530 pages
...indeed, and imposing no resistance to the hand, yet impenetrable to the feet of fear, as the stoue dungeon's thraldom. If the mist had remained, that...within him in the desert. In this age of confessions, we need not be ashamed to own, in the face of the whole world, that we sat down and cried ! The small... | |
 | 1863 - 682 pages
...becomes a shower, and the shower a flood, and the flood a storm, and the storm a tempest, and the tempest thunder and lightning, heavenquake and earthquake,...poor wee Kit quaked and almost died within him. In this age of confessions need we be ashamed to own, in the face of the whole world, that he sat down... | |
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... so a Scotch mist becomes a shower — and a shower a flood— and a flood a storm — and a storm a tempest—- and a tempest thunder and lightning — and thunder and lightning heaven-quake and earth-quake — till the heart of poor wee Kit quaked,... 
