 | Hugh Miller - 1857 - 566 pages
...a fine, rich country, and came at length to the shores of a noble river ; and, just where th clear water went thundering down a precipice, there was...believe I have occasionally seen them make use of aneedotes that did not rest on evidence a great deal more solid than the Highland legend, and that... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1857 - 550 pages
...a fine, rich country, and came at length to the shores of a noble river ; and, just where th clear water went thundering down a precipice, there was...rudely awoke me, and I lost all." I know not what the assertcrs of the clairvoyant faculty may think of the story ; but I rather believe I have occasionally... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1862 - 880 pages
...shores of a noble river ; and, just where the clear water went thundering down a precipice, there was a 276 just going to load myself with treasure, when you rudely awoke me, and I lost all." ' The above... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1865 - 572 pages
...a fine, rich country, and came at length to the shores of a noble river; and, just where th cl' iir water went thundering down a precipice, there was...believe I have occasionally seen them make use of aneedotes that did not rest on evidence a great deal more solid than the Highland legend, and that... | |
 | Charles Daniel Dance - 1876 - 392 pages
...shores of a noble river ; and just where the clear water went thundering down a precipice, there was a bridge all of silver which I crossed ; and then, entering...treasure, when you rudely awoke me, and I lost all." " The above story is by no means uncommon in the Highlands, and the writer has frequently heard it... | |
 | Charles Daniel Dance - 1876 - 390 pages
...shores of a noble river ; and just where the clear water went thundering down a precipice, there was a bridge all of silver which I crossed ; and then, entering...treasure, when you rudely awoke me, and I lost all.' " The above story is by no means uncommon in the Highlands, and the writer has frequently heard it... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1883 - 862 pages
...entering a noble palace on the opposite side, I saw great heaps of gold and jewels ; and I was 276 just going to load myself with treasure, when you rudely awoke me, and I lost all." ' The above story is by no means uncommon in the Highlands, and the writer has frequently heard it... | |
 | Hugh Norris, Charles Herbert Mayo, Frederic William Weaver - 1893 - 418 pages
...shores of a noble river ; and, just where the clear water went thundering down a precipice, there was a bridge all of silver, which I crossed ; and then,...going to load myself with treasure, when you rudely woke me, and I lost all.' " — My Schools and Schoolmasters, i 857, pp. Ill, 112. WG BOSWELL-SXONE.... | |
 | James George Frazer - 1900 - 510 pages
...shores of a noble river ; and, just where the clear water went thundering down a precipice, there was a bridge all of silver, which I crossed ; and then,...with treasure, when you rudely awoke me, and I lost all.1 " * Still more dangerous is it in the opinion of primitive man to move a sleeper or alter his... | |
 | Hilda M. Ransome - 2004 - 338 pages
...a noble river; and just where the clear water went thundering over a precipice, there was a bridge of silver, which I crossed; and then entering a noble...and jewels, and I was just going to load myself with treasures, when you rudely awoke me and I lost alL" Our next story also comes from Sutherlandshire:... | |
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I was walking through a fine rich country, and came at length to the shores of a noble river ; and just where the clear water went thundering down a precipice, there was a bridge all of silver which I crossed ; and then, entering a noble palace on the... 