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hell-engendered

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  • Before the indignant spirit of Wallace could utter the answer his wrongs dictated, Bothwell, who at sight of the regent's troops had hastened to his general's tent, entered, followed by his chieftains: – "Were your guard forty thousand, instead of four," cried he, "they should not force our commander from us – they should not extinguish the glory of Scotland beneath the traitorous devices of hell-engendered envy and murderous cowardice!"

    The Scottish Chiefs 1875

  • "Were your guard forty thousand, instead of four," cried he, "they should not force our commander from us -- they should not extinguish the glory of Scotland beneath the traitorous devices of hell-engendered envy and murderous cowardice."

    The Scottish Chiefs Jane Porter 1813

  • I should only think how long she had withered in the agony of her disunion; how long she had bent, fettered by slaves, cajoled by blockheads and plundered by adventurers; the proverb of the fool, the prey of the politician, the dupe of the designing, the experiment of the desperate; struggling as it were between her own fanatical and infatuated parties, those hell-engendered serpents which enfold her, like the Trojan seer, even at the worship of her altars, and crush her to death in the very embraces of her children!

    I. An Address to Catholics 1906

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