Readings from the Waverley NovelsLee and Shepard, 1892 - 264 من الصفحات |
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Abbot Amy Robsart answered apartment armor arms attend beauty Bertram betwixt Black Knight blow brave Brian de Bois-Guilbert castle Catherine champion chap character command countess Covenanters crusaders Dalgetty daughter death Disinherited Knight Douglas Duke of Argyle Earl of Leicester Effie Elizabeth encounter English escape exclaimed eyes fair father fear Front-de-Boeuf Grace Guy Mannering hand hath head heard heart Heart of Mid-Lothian Henry Seyton honor horse instantly Ivanhoe Jeanie Deans Jeanie's Jewess Kenilworth King Knights Templar Lady Fleming lance Lindesay Lochleven look Lord Lovel madam Majesty Mary master Melville noble Old Mortality person Prince John prisoner Queen Queen Caroline Raleigh Rebecca replied Richard Robsart Roland Græme Rowena royal Saladin Saracen Scotland Scott seemed shield shouts Sir Arthur Sir Brian sister Soldan soldiers sound spectators stood sword Templar thee Third Crusade thou art tion Tressilian Varney Vaux Waverley Novels Wayland Smith weapon woman young
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الصفحة 106 - Knight," answered Rebecca, faintly; then instantly again shouted with joyful eagerness — "But no — but no ! the name of the Lord of Hosts be blessed ! he is on foot again, and fights as if there were twenty men's strength in his single arm. His sword is broken — he snatches an axe from a yeoman — he presses Front-de-Boeuf with blow on blow. The giant stoops and totters like an oak under the steel of the woodman — he falls — he falls !
الصفحة 106 - They pull down the piles and palisades; they hew down the barriers with axes. His high black plume floats abroad over the throng, like a raven over the field of the slain. They have made a breach in the barriers — they rush in — they are thrust back!
الصفحة 108 - ... thundering blows which he deals, you may hear them above all the din and shouts of the battle Stones and beams are hailed down on the bold champion - he regards them no more than if they were thistle-down or feathers!" "By Saint John of Acre/' said Ivanhoe, raising himself joyfully on his couch, "methought there was but one man in England that might do such a deed!" "The postern gate shakes/' continued Rebecca; "it crashes - it is splintered by his blows - they rush in - the outwork is won -...
الصفحة 81 - Templar aimed at the centre of his antagonist's shield, and struck it so fair and forcibly that his spear went to shivers, and the Disinherited Knight reeled in his saddle. On the other hand, that champion had in the beginning of his career directed the point of his lance...
الصفحة 72 - Her form was exquisitely symmetrical, and was shown to advantage by a sort of Eastern dress, which she wore according to the fashion of the females of her nation. Her turban of yellow silk suited well with the darkness of her complexion. The brilliancy of her eyes, the superb arch of her eyebrows, her well-formed aquiline nose, her teeth as white as pearl...
الصفحة 80 - A loud shout from the spectators, waving of scarfs and handkerchiefs, and general acclamations, attested the interest taken by the spectators in this encounter ; the most equal, as well as the best performed, which had graced the day. But no sooner had the knights resumed their station than the clamour of applause was hushed into a silence so deep and so dead, that it seemed the multitude were afraid even to breathe. A few minutes...
الصفحة 40 - If it like you, madam," said Jeanie, 'I would hae gaen to the end of the earth to save the life of John Porteous, or any other unhappy man in his condition ; but I might lawfully doubt how far I am called upon to be the avenger of his blood, though it may become the civil magistrate to do so. He is dead and gane to his place, and they that have slain him must answer for their ain act. But my sister — my puir sister...
الصفحة 104 - Look from the window once again, kind maiden, but beware that you are not marked by the archers beneath. Look out once more, and tell me if they yet advance to the storm.
الصفحة 52 - ... frustrated his attempts to attack him on an unguarded point ; so that the Saracen, wheeling his horse, was fain to retreat to the distance of a hundred yards. A second time, like a hawk attacking a heron, the heathen renewed the charge, and a second time was fain to retreat without coming to a close struggle. A third time he approached in the same manner, when the Christian knight, desirous to terminate this...
الصفحة 73 - ... southern extremities of the lists, accessible by strong wooden gates, each wide enough to admit two horsemen riding abreast. At each of these portals were stationed two heralds, attended by six trumpets, as many pursuivants, and a strong body of men-at-arms for maintaining order, and ascertaining the quality of the knights who proposed to engage in this martial game.