Sir. W. Scott

Cited as Sir. W. Scott. — 19 quotations

The well-governed childhood of this realm.

The tongue of that confounded woman.

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove.

The poor craven bridegroom said never a word.

Speedily overtaking and crushing the rebels.

The best exposure of the two for woodcocks.

Never a hall such a galliard did grace.

The longitude of their cloaks.

Clouds of passion which might obfuscate the intellects of meaner females.

A pin was the usual oblation.

Projecting his person towards it in a line which obliqued from the bottom of his spine.

The musicians preluded on their instruments.

We shall see if an English hound is to harbor and reset the Southrons here.

The knees and feet were defended by splints, or thin plates of steel.

He had abandoned the frontiers, retiring upon Glasgow.

Without vailing his bonnet or testifying any reverence for the alleged sanctity of the relic.

All that gives verisimilitude to a narrative.

He called to the warden on the . . . battlements.

The good knight whiles humming to himself the lay of some majored troubadour.