The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson ...Charles Scribner's sons, 1901 |
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Alan answered Dick Appleyard Arblaster archer arms arras asked Dick began Bennet Black Arrow Brackley close cried Dick cross-bow crossed dark dead Dick's door drew Duckworth duke Ellis eyes face father feet fell fire Flora followed foot forest Gloucester gold noble gone Greensheve Hamley hand Hatch hath head heard heart Heaven Holywood horse hour instantly Jack Joanna John John Nicholson Kettley lady lamp Lancastrian Lawless looked Lord Foxham maid Master Dick Master Shelton Matcham mind Moat House murrain Nicholson night once outlaw paused poor portmanteau pray priest prithee replied Dick returned Dick Richard Shelton Risingham saints Selden shoot side silence Sir Oliver snow sound steps stood street struck tabard thought took Tunstall turned voice wall Wensleydale wind wood word Yorkist young Shelton
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الصفحة 58 - Shelton, Simon Malmesbury, and"—striking his broad bosom—"and Ellis Duckworth, by the mass! " Another man came, red with hurry, through the thorns. "Tis not Sir Daniel!" he panted. "They are but seven. Is the arrow gone ? " "It struck but now," replied Ellis. " A murrain! " cried the messenger. " Methought I heard it whistle. And I go dinnerless!
الصفحة 62 - and menacing, with doubled fist. Matcham lay where he had fallen, with his face in the grass, not thinking of resistance. Dick bent his bow. "I'll teach you!" he cried, fiercely. "Oath or no oath, ye may go hang for me!" And he turned and began to run. Matcham was on his feet
الصفحة 98 - deal heartened up! See how they fall again to work." This praise of Sir Daniel put a thought in the lad's head. "Bennet," he said, "how came my father by his end?" " Ask me not that," replied Hatch. "I had no hand nor knowledge in it; furthermore, I will even be silent,
الصفحة 44 - or warfare, I did risk my two poor ears to have you over whole. Content you; I can no more, on my salvation ! " Hugh was still speaking, lying on his oars, when there came a great shout from among the willows on the Island, and sounds followed as of a strong man
الصفحة 135 - I fynde ye were untrue and unkynd fro the first. Ye have my father's blood upon your hands; let be, it will not wasshe. Some day ye shall perish by my procurement, so much I let you to wytte; and I let you to wytte farther, that if ye seek to wed to any other the gentylwoman,
الصفحة 146 - men of Sir Daniel's in that house, and to be taken between two shots is a beggarman's position. Take me this ladder; I must leave it where I found it." They returned the ladder to the stable, and groped their way to the place where they had entered.
الصفحة 293 - to the more deplorable necessities of war, and the thought of old Lady Brackley checked the command upon his tongue. His own men became restive. Some of them cried on him by name; others, of their own accord, beganto shoot; and at the first discharge poor
الصفحة 83 - What! will ye be a man ?" Dick crossed himself. "Would ye have me shoot upon a leper?" he cried. "The hand would fail me. Nay, now," he added—"nay, now, let be! With sound men I will fight . but not with ghosts and lepers. Which this is, I wot not. One or other, Heaven be our protection
الصفحة 222 - foremost from the stall, and thrust him by the shoulders down the chancel steps. Lawless, on his part, sat as still as a mouse. Sir Daniel, brushing the blood out of his eyes, stared blinkingly upon his captive. "Ay," he said, "treacherous and insolent, I
الصفحة 180 - for after having lived nobly and richly all the days of my life, this is a sad pass that I should get my hurt in a little ferreting skirmish, and die here, in a foul. cold ship upon the sea, among broken men and