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"You are right, boy," he said, "we must be up and doing. They lie, the roundheaded traitors, that call him dissolute and worthless! He hath feelings worthy the son of the blessed Martyr. You saw, even in the extremity of danger, he would have perilled his safety rather than take Alice's guidance when the silly wench seemed in doubt about going.
"I should have thought," said he to Captain Dalgetty, "that a cavalier of your honourable mark, who hath so long followed the valiant King of Sweden, and entertains such a suitable contempt for the base mechanical States of Holland, would not have hesitated to embrace the cause of King Charles, in preference to that of the low-born, roundheaded, canting knaves, who are in rebellion against his authority?"
"The roundheaded rascal was drunk, or out of the way, I presume," said Albert. "I am glad of it you may easily trust him too far." "Hitherto he has been faithful," said the Doctor, "and I scarce think he will fail me now. But Joceline will go down and have the horses in readiness in the morning." Joceline's countenance was usually that of alacrity itself on a case extraordinary.
It was easy to see that there were a few roundheaded troopers amongst them, the true spawn of the old Covenant. We must manage this matter warily as well as boldly. Evandale, let the officers come to this knoll." He moved to a small moss-grown cairn, probably the resting-place of some Celtic chief of other times, and the call of "Officers to the front," soon brought them around their commander.
This path was defended both above and below the castle by gates that were battlemented and to which guard-rooms were attached. The pensile castle is not large. It was entered at one side, and has in its face three roundheaded windows. The other castle of Brengues is perforated in an angle of rock, at a great elevation, and consists of several chambers.
If it were not for that accursed cousin that puritan Colonel I could forgive every thing else to so noble a wench. But a roundheaded rebel preferred to me the preference avowed to my face, and justified with the assertion, that a king might take a lesson from him it is gall and wormwood.
Lack-a-day! a great mercy a glorifying mercy a crowning mercy a vouchsafing an uplifting I profess the malignants are scattered from Dan to Beersheba smitten, hip and thigh, even until the going down of the sun!" "Hear you aught of Colonel Thornhaugh's wounds?" "He is dead," answered Wildrake, "that's one comfort the roundheaded rascal!
I remember well enough that my roundheaded father-in-law, Fairfax, had the island from the Long Parliament; and was ass enough to quit hold of it at the Restoration, when, if he had closed his clutches, and held fast, like a true bird of prey, as he should have done, he might have kept it for him and his.
In the tapestried room, from which issued these various sally-ports, the Countess and Lady Peveril were speedily seated; and the former, smiling upon the latter, said, as she took her hand, "Two things have happened to-day, which might have surprised me, if anything ought to surprise me in such times: the first is, that yonder roundheaded fellow should have dared to use such insolence in the house of Peveril of the Peak.
Round columns alternated with octagonal ones support pointed arches, and a clerestory above pierced with roundheaded slits, indicating very decisively that the nave was built in the Transitional Norman period. It appears that a western tower was projected, but never carried out, and an unusual feature is the descent by two steps into the chancel.
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