Travel Writing
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-08-08 | Author:Alexander Leighton

* * * THE MONK OF ST. ANTHONY. "When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; When the devil grew well, the devil a monk was he." ...
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mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2004-01-31 | Author:Alexander Leighton

"Then who was the strange being?" "I dare not tell you that; but I fear Ady's away with him, without hat, or cloak, or box, or supper." "To where?" "Nor ...
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mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-08-26 | Author:Alexander Leighton

* * * THE FOUNDLING AT SEA. About the year 1708 or 1710, the good ship Isabella, Captain Hardy, sailed from the port of Greenock for Bombay, being chartered by ...
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mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-10-26 | Author:Alexander Leighton

* * * I CANNA BE FASHED! OR, WILLIE GRANT'S CONFESSIONS. "Here's a bonny day, sir," said old Willie Grant, "and the Whitadder's in excellent trim—will ye get your gad ...
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mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-06-16 | Author:Alexander Leighton

We felt interested in Johnny, by this brief sketch of his mysterious story; and, not a little curious to know where on earth he could possibly have been all the ...
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mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-09-29 | Author:Alexander Leighton

Years rolled on, but the bereaved husband and father finds little assuasive power in the effects of time. Robert Ashley experienced this melancholy truth, and sought assistance from a fountain, ...
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mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1890-12-14 | Author:Alexander Leighton

"Well, I don't mind, since you're pathetic, And so the reason you shall hear: Th' affair was one of arithmetic— A matter of so much a year. His father left ...
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mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-09-12 | Author:Alexander Leighton

"'——she, pleased, resigned To tender feelings all her lovely mind.' "Next day, William sent to his brother a plain unvarnished statement of all that had happened, expressed in a fair ...
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mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-04-15 | Author:Alexander Leighton

* * * THE GHOST OF HOWDYCRAIGS. "They gather round, and wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghastly."—BLAIR. After all that has been written, printed, and circulated, ...
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mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-09-12 | Author:Alexander Leighton

* * * THE MERCHANT'S DAUGHTER. On the western skirts of the Torwood—famous in Scottish story for its association with the names of Wallace and Bruce—there stood, in the middle ...
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mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-10-26 | Author:Alexander Leighton

* * * THE DOMINIE AND THE SOUTER. * * * THE DOMINIE'S COURTSHIP. "Weel, I dinna ken how it is, Richard," said a Selkirk dominie to his friend Richard ...
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mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-10-26 | Author:Alexander Leighton

* * * THE MAN-OF-WAR'S MAN. In the calm clear evenings of June and July, when the heat of the day has been abated, it has been my custom to ...
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mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-04-17 | Author:Alexander Leighton

FOOTNOTES: [2] Bamborough. * * * THE ROYAL RAID. Among the promoters of the wars and disturbances which so long ravaged the Border counties, authors have been anxious to class ...
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mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2008-12-25 | Author:Alexander Leighton

"Direr than incubus's haggard train." I had just looked my watch—it wanted now only twenty minutes of the last hour. The order for the friends to quit the jail was ...
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mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-09-14 | Author:Alexander Leighton

* * * DONALD GORM. In a remote corner of Assynt, one of the most remote and savage districts in the Highlands of Scotland, there is a certain wild and ...
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