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... Poor Daniel Clarke's cracked skull is included , among other re- lics , in this museum . This is not treating murdered people fairly : it is to gibbet the victim , not the malefactor . Eugene Aram's " chapless mazzard " would have ...
... Poor Daniel Clarke's cracked skull is included , among other re- lics , in this museum . This is not treating murdered people fairly : it is to gibbet the victim , not the malefactor . Eugene Aram's " chapless mazzard " would have ...
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... poor witch's gore , A lime - tree stake did Ranulph take , and pierced her bosom's core ; And , strange to tell , what next befell ! -that branch at once took root , And richly fed , within its bed , strong suckers forth did shoot . X ...
... poor witch's gore , A lime - tree stake did Ranulph take , and pierced her bosom's core ; And , strange to tell , what next befell ! -that branch at once took root , And richly fed , within its bed , strong suckers forth did shoot . X ...
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... poor Sir Piers , the knack of stop- ping a troublesome woman's tongue , and practised it to perfec- tion . A rare art , eh ? " " What have the misdeeds of his ancestry to do with Sir Piers , " muttered Luke , " much less with my mother ...
... poor Sir Piers , the knack of stop- ping a troublesome woman's tongue , and practised it to perfec- tion . A rare art , eh ? " " What have the misdeeds of his ancestry to do with Sir Piers , " muttered Luke , " much less with my mother ...
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... poor Hugh Badger a helping hand . " Whereupon they returned to the assistance of the wounded and discomfited keeper . CHAPTER IV . THE HALL . I am right against my house - seat of my ancestors . Yorkshire Tragedy . ROOKWOOD PLACE was a ...
... poor Hugh Badger a helping hand . " Whereupon they returned to the assistance of the wounded and discomfited keeper . CHAPTER IV . THE HALL . I am right against my house - seat of my ancestors . Yorkshire Tragedy . ROOKWOOD PLACE was a ...
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... poor Sir Piers's favourite retreat . It was , in fact , the only room in the house that he could call his own ; and thither would he often , with pipe and punch , beguile the flagging hours , secure from interruption . A 46 ROOKWOOD ...
... poor Sir Piers's favourite retreat . It was , in fact , the only room in the house that he could call his own ; and thither would he often , with pipe and punch , beguile the flagging hours , secure from interruption . A 46 ROOKWOOD ...
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Alan Rookwood amongst answered appearance asked Barbara beauty behold Black Bess blood brother canting crew Carrion Crow Checkley coffin countenance cried Luke curse dark Davenham dead devil Dick Turpin door ears echoed Eleanor Mowbray exclaimed eyes father fear followed gazed gentleman gibbet gipsy glance ground hall hand Handassah hath head hear heard heart highwayman honour horse instant Jack Palmer Jerry knight of Malta Lady Rookwood ladyship laugh look Luke Bradley Luke's Major Mowbray mare mother never night once Paterson patrico Peter Bradley pistol priest Ranulph Rookwood Rapparees REDMOND O'HANLON replied Coates replied Luke replied Ranulph returned road Rook rushed scarcely sexton shouted silence Sir Luke Rookwood Sir Piers's Sir Ranulph Sir Reginald smile song soul steed stood stream Sybil tell thee thing thou thought Titus Toft Tom King tone tree Tyrconnel vault voice whisper word Zoroaster
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Strona 150 - have a snap at you, at all hazards," cried Coates, springing suddenly towards him. " And I at you," said Turpin, discharging his pistol right in the face of the rash attorney — " there's a quittance in full." BOOK III. THE GIPSY. Lay a garland on my hearse, Of the dismal yew; Maidens, willow branches bear, From my hour
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Strona 324 - Dauphin. I will not change my horse with any that treads but on four pasterns. Ca, ha! He bounds from the earth, as if his entrails were hairs;
Strona 324 - the earth sings when he touches it: the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.
Strona 233 - Well, go thy ways, old Nick Machiavel, there will never be the peer of thee for wholesome policy and good counsel: thou took'st pains to chalk men out the dark paths and hidden plots of murther and deceit, and no man has the grace to follow
Strona 117 - that a stone with a hole in it hung at the bed's head will prevent the Night-Mare ; and is therefore called a hag-stone " The belief in this charm still lingers in some districts, and maintains, like the
Strona 323 - on right and left, how fast, Each forest, grove, and bower; On right and left, fled past, how fast, Each city, town, and tower. CHAPTER XXXIX. BLACK
Strona 324 - cheval volant, the Pegasus qui a les narines defeu ! When I bestride him I soar. I am a hawk : the earth sings when he touches it: the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.
Strona 305 - prompt to charge or caress, Now is she not beautiful ? — bonny Black Bess ! V. Over highway and byeway, in rough and smooth weather, Some thousands of miles have we journeyed together; Our couch the same straw, and our meal the same mess, No couple more constant than I and Black Bess!
Strona 84 - husband Now he owes nature nothing. Man. And look upon this creature as his wife. Is dead. Vit. Cor. Oh, he's a happy husband ! She comes not like a widow — she comes armed With scorn and impudence. Is this a mourning habit