 Claverhouse mounted his horse, and marched, and left her with the corpse of her dead husband lying there; she set the bairn on the ground, and gathered his brains, and tied up his head, and straighted his body, and covered him in her plaid, and sat down,...  Fraser's Magazine - Page 7091844Full view - About this book
 | 1817 - 628 pages
...Claverhouse mounted his horse, and marched, and left her, ' with the corpse of her dead husband lying there. She set - the bairn on the ground, and tied up his head, and straighted ' his body, and covered him in her plaid, and sat down, and ' wept over hitn.' Doubtless, these were some of * the brave and sincere... | |
 | James Grahame - Sabbath - 1805 - 184 pages
...Claverhouse mounted his horse, and marched, and left her, with the corpse of her dead husband lying there. She set the bairn on the ground, and tied up his head, and straighted his body, and covered him in her plaid, and sat down and wept over him. It being a very desart place, where never victual grew,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1806 - 458 pages
...corpse of her dead husband lying there ; she set the bairn on the ground, and gathered bis brains, and tied up his head, and straighted his body, and covered him in her plaid, and sat down, and wept over him. It being a very desart place, where never victual grew,... | |
 | James Grahame - English poetry - 1807 - 250 pages
...Claverhouse mounted his horse, and marched, and left her, with the corpse of her dead husband lying there. She set the bairn on the ground, and tied up his head, and straighted his body, and covered him in her plaid, and sat down, and wept over him. It being a very desart place, where never victual grew,... | |
 | Scottish border - 1812 - 516 pages
...the corpse of her dead husband lying there; she set the bairn on the ground, and gathered his brains, and tied up his head, and straighted his body, and covered him in her plaid, and sat down, and wept over him. It being a very desart place, where never victual grew,... | |
 | Scotland - 1860 - 796 pages
...corpse of her dead husband lying there ; she set the bnirn on the ground, and gathered his brains, and tied up his head, and straighted his body, and covered him in her plaid, and sat down and wept over him. It being a very desert place, where never victual grew,... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1824 - 434 pages
...corpse of her dead husband lying there : she set the bairn on the ground, and gathered his brains, and tied up his head, an'd straighted his body, and covered him in her plaid; and sat down, and wept over him."* The HEART OF MID-LOTHIAN deserves the character of... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...Claverhouse mounted his horse, and marched, and left her with the corpse of her dead husband lying there. She set the bairn on the ground, and tied up his head, and straighted his body, and covered him in her plaid, and satdown, and wept over him. It being a very desert place, where never victual grew,... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1828 - 396 pages
...of her dead hushand lying there ; she set the bairn on the ground, ami gatherud hu brasns, and dad up his head, and straighted his body, and covered him with her plaid, Of primitive simplicity Some in our church was left, man ; But now of truth and verity, Alas, we are... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English periodicals - 1834 - 680 pages
...corpse of her dead husband lying there ; she set the bairn on the ground, and gathered his brains, and tied up his head, and straighted his body, and covered him with her plaid, and sat down and wept over him. It being a very desert place where never victual grew, and far from neighbours,... | |
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