 | Walter Scott - 1880 - 416 pàgines
...way of joists or planks, were levelled with earth and gravel. There were betwixt the trees growin g naturally on their own roots, some stakes fixed in...heath and birch twigs, up to the top of the Cage, it being of a round or rather oval shape ; and the whole thatched and covered over with fog. The whole... | |
 | Jonathan Rigdon - 1890 - 302 pàgines
...; with an understanding too feeble to be dreaded, and too forcible to be despised. — Johnson. 6. There were betwixt the trees, growing naturally on...heath and birch twigs, up to the top of the Cage, it being of a round or rather oval shape. — Scott. 7. It is difficult for the most cool-headed imposter... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1853 - 402 pàgines
...boasts the name of virgin-bower, And every hardy plant could bear Loch Katrine's keen and searching air. levelled with earth and gravel. There were betwixt...heath and birch twigs, up to the top of the Cage, it being of a round or rather oval shape ; and the whole thatched and covered over with fog. The whole... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1853 - 402 pàgines
...with earth and gravel. There were betwixt the trees growing naturally on their own roots, some slakes fixed in the earth, which, with the trees, were interwoven...heath and birch twigs, up to the top of the Cage, it being of a round or rather oval shape ; and the whole thatched and covered over with fog. The whole... | |
 | Scottish History Society - 1896 - 452 pàgines
...to equall height with the other ; and these trees, in the way of jests or planks, were entirely well levelled with earth and gravel. There were betwixt...interwoven with ropes made of heath and birch twigs all to the top of the Cage, it being of a round or rather oval shape, and the whole thatched and covered... | |
 | 1896 - 510 pàgines
...to equall height with the other ; and these trees, in the way of jests or planks, were entirely well levelled with earth and gravel. There were betwixt...interwoven with ropes made of heath and birch twigs all to the top of the Cage, it being of a round or rather oval shape, and the whole thatched and covered... | |
 | Robert Forbes - 1896 - 454 pàgines
...to equall height with the other ; and these trees, in the way of jests or planks, were entirely well levelled with earth and gravel. There were betwixt...interwoven with ropes made of heath and birch twigs all to the top of the Cage, it being of a round or rather oval shape, and the whole thatched and covered... | |
 | James Cameron Lees - 1897 - 954 pàgines
...side to equal height with the other, and these trees in the way of joists or planks were entirely well levelled with earth and gravel. There were betwixt...trees, were interwoven with ropes made of heath and birch-twigs all to the top of the cage, it being of a round or rather of an oval shape, and the whole... | |
 | Thomas Brumby Johnston, James Alexander Robertson - 1899 - 234 pàgines
...face of a very rough, high and rocky mountain called Letternilichk, still a part of Benalder, full of great stones and crevices, and some scattered wood...trees were interwoven with ropes, made of heath and THE PRINCE'S ESCAPE, 1746. 175 birch twigs, up to the top of the Cage, it being of a round or rather... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1900 - 824 pàgines
...thick bush of wood. There were first some rows of trees laid down, in order to level the floor for a habitation ; and as the place was steep, this raised...heath and birch twigs, up to the top of the Cage, it being of a round or rather oval shape ; and the whole thatched and covered over with fog. The whole... | |
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There were first some rows of trees laid down, in order to level a floor for the habitation ; and as the place was steep, this raised the lower side to an equal height with the other ; and these trees, in the way of joists or planks, were levelled with... 
