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Page 17
... seemed to compel him to continue what was in his mind to say : " And yet you speak with a look on your face and a ring in your voice through all its feebleness , as though , instead of being a vanquished member of a vanquished cause ...
... seemed to compel him to continue what was in his mind to say : " And yet you speak with a look on your face and a ring in your voice through all its feebleness , as though , instead of being a vanquished member of a vanquished cause ...
Page 19
... seemed to mortal minds that , if but to permit a thing of such inestimable value to this soldier , God might have preserved the life of McCall at the present juncture . But His ways are not as our ways , and He works in manners that men ...
... seemed to mortal minds that , if but to permit a thing of such inestimable value to this soldier , God might have preserved the life of McCall at the present juncture . But His ways are not as our ways , and He works in manners that men ...
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... Blair whilst he was still some yards lower down the brae . The speaker was hidden within her one - roomed hut at present , but , although the dimensions of it were of the most restricted , she seemed to consider it Who began it ? 3 I.
... Blair whilst he was still some yards lower down the brae . The speaker was hidden within her one - roomed hut at present , but , although the dimensions of it were of the most restricted , she seemed to consider it Who began it ? 3 I.
Page 32
... seemed bent on committing suicide , by the way in which it had made its foolish little run right into the path of the oncoming visitor . Blair waited silent in the sunshine until the yellow atom had been thrown with scant ceremony ...
... seemed bent on committing suicide , by the way in which it had made its foolish little run right into the path of the oncoming visitor . Blair waited silent in the sunshine until the yellow atom had been thrown with scant ceremony ...
Page 39
... seemed so true that Blair in- stinctively rose from his somewhat helpless position , and strode a yard or so farther off , as he replied : " Hech ! hech , never fash yoursel ' to say ony mair aboot the matter . When it comes to the ...
... seemed so true that Blair in- stinctively rose from his somewhat helpless position , and strode a yard or so farther off , as he replied : " Hech ! hech , never fash yoursel ' to say ony mair aboot the matter . When it comes to the ...
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answer Archbishop arms bairn Birsy Bishop of Dunblane Blair's Farm CHAPTER Christian cloth extra companion cottage Covenant Covenanters Crown 8vo dare death door dragoons Edinburgh Edinburgh Castle Elspeth Spence enemies exclaimed eyes face faith fear Flemming Graham McCall hand hath head heart Henry Savile honour hour husband Illustrations Ivie McCall Ivie's James Guthrie James MacMichael James Sharp Jenny Geddes John Welch Kate McCall King lady laugh learnt lips lives looked Lord mair Maister Ivie Mary Blair mercy mind minister Mistress McCall mother nane night old Elspeth once pardon passed PATERNOSTER ROW poor pray prayer present reply Robert Leighton scarcely Scotch Scotland SHAW Small 8vo smile soldier spirit STANLEY LEATHES stood story tale tell thee things thought told tone turned uttered voice William Blair window words young
Popular passages
Page 231 - As smoke is driven away, so drive them away : As wax melteth before the fire, So let the wicked perish at the presence of GOD.
Page 25 - And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate ; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded to Israel.
Page 343 - Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Page 336 - I say unto you, my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom you shall fear: fear him, which after he hath killed, hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
Page 16 - One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one ; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee ; till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.
Page 43 - And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it : that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
Page 16 - And therefore will the Lord wait, that He may be gracious unto you, and therefore will He be exalted, that He may have mercy upon you : for the Lord is a God of judgement; blessed are all they that wait for Him.
Page 124 - That we shall in like manner, without respect of persons, endeavour the extirpation of Popery, prelacy (that is, Church government by Archbishops, Bishops, their Chancellors and Commissaries, Deans, Deans and Chapters, Archdeacons, and all other ecclesiastical officers depending ou that hierarchy), superstition, heresy, schism, profaneness, and whatsoever shall be found to be contrary to sound doctrine and the power of godliness...
Page 86 - But he that hateth his brother, is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
Page 126 - ... and thereby be in danger to receive of their plagues, and that the Lord may be one, and His name one in the three kingdoms.