Wild adventures round the Pole; or, The cruise of the Snowbird crew in the ArrandoonHodder and Stoughton, 1883 - 333 pages |
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Page 28 - April. 0 wad some Power the giftie gie us To see ourselves as others see us...
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Page 98 - WIZARD. LOCHIEL, Lochiel ! beware of the day When the Lowlands shall meet thee in battle array ! For a field of the dead rushes red on my sight, And the clans of Culloden are scattered in fight. They rally, they bleed, for their kingdom and crown ; Woe, woe to the riders that trample them down...
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