 And there was Claverhouse, as beautiful as when he lived, with his long, dark, curled locks, streaming down over his laced buff-coat, and his left hand always on his right spule-blade, to hide the wound that the silver bullet had made...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 3991905Full view - About this book
 | 1876 - 462 pages
...place, for often had he piped to the most part in the hall of Redgauutlet. There was. . . And there was Claverhouse, as beautiful as when he lived, with his...laced buff-coat, and his left hand always on his right spule-blade, to hide the wound that the silver bullet had made. He sat apart from them all, and looked... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - Jacobites - 1878 - 466 pages
...MacKenyie, who, for his worldly wit and wisdom, had been. to the rest as a god. And there was Claverhouae, as beautiful as when he lived, with his long, dark,...laced buff-coat, and his left hand always on his right spule-blade, to hide the wound that the silver bullet had made.* He sat apart from them all, and looked... | |
 | English periodicals - 1882 - 612 pages
...Advocate Mackenye, who, for his worldly wit and wisdom, had been to the rest as a god. And there was Claverhouse, as beautiful as when he lived, with his...dark, curled locks, streaming down over his laced buff coat, and his left hand always on his right spuleblade, to hide the wound that the silver bullet... | |
 | 1882 - 520 pages
...Advocate Mackenye, who, for his worldly wit and wisdom, had been to the rest as a god. And there was Claverhouse, as beautiful as when he lived, with his...dark, curled locks, streaming down over his laced buff coat, and his left hand always on his right spuleblade, to hide the wound that the silver bullet... | |
 | Walter Scott - Jacobites - 1885 - 912 pages
...Advocate MacKenyie, who, for his wordly wit and wisdom had been to the rest as a god. And there was Claverhouse, as beautiful as when he lived, with his...locks, streaming down over his laced buff-coat, and with his left hand always on his right spule-blade, to hide the wound that the silver bullet had made.*... | |
 | Alexander Fergusson - Nobility - 1886 - 306 pages
...Advocate MacKenyie, who, for his worldly wit and wisdom, had been to the rest as a god. And there was Claverhouse, as beautiful as when he lived, with his...laced buff-coat, and his left hand always on his right spule-blade,1 to hide the wound that the silver bullet had made. He sat apart from them all, and looked... | |
 | Agnes Repplier - Literature - 1888 - 240 pages
...souls, isolated in his contemptuous pride from their feasts and dreadful merriment : " And there sat Claverhouse, as beautiful as when he lived, with his...laced buff-coat, and his left hand always on his right spule-blade, to hide the wound that the silver bullet had made. He sat apart from them all, and looked... | |
 | Alexander Taylor Innes - Presbyterian Church - 1892 - 372 pages
...Dunbarton Douglas, the twice-turned traitor baith to country and king ; and Claverhouse, as beautif ul as when he lived, with his long, dark, curled locks, streaming down over his laced buff coat ; " and, prominent among the doomed ghosts, "there was the bluidy Advocate Mackenzie, who,... | |
 | Walter Scott - Jacobites - 1894 - 384 pages
...Advocate MacKenyie, who, for his worldly wit and wisdom, had been to the rest as a god. And there was Claverhouse, as beautiful as when he lived, with his...dark, curled locks, streaming down over his laced buff -coat, and his left hand always on his right spule-blade, to hide the wound that the silver bullet... | |
 | English fiction - 1896 - 196 pages
...Advocate MacKenyie, who, for his worldly wit and wisdom, had been to the rest as a god. And there was Claverhouse, as beautiful as when he lived, with his...locks streaming down over his laced buff-coat, and with his left hand always on his right spule-blade, to hide the wound that the silver bullet had made.1... | |
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