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'Lochleven' is the spent echo of the 'Seasons,' although, as we said before, its descriptions possess considerable merit.
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 3 George Gilfillan 1845
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'Lochleven' is the spent echo of the 'Seasons,' although, as we said before, its descriptions possess considerable merit.
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete George Gilfillan 1845
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With her back to this casement, then, and her face to the table, on which the keys lay for an instant while she tasted the various dishes which were placed there, stood the Lady of Lochleven, more provokingly intent than usual — so at least it seemed to her prisoners — upon the huge and heavy bunch of iron, the implements of their restraint.
The Abbot 2008
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In private, he forged a number of keys resembling so nearly in weight and in form those which were presented every evening to the Lady Lochleven, that, on a slight inspection, it would have been difficult to perceive the difference.
The Abbot 2008
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Lochleven, hunted round to the place in which I served my noviciate, and now ye are come to rouse me up again! —
The Abbot 2008
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The Lady of Lochleven rose from the bedside, and darted a penetrating look at the elder valetudinary.
The Abbot 2008
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Expresses were sent to his daughter, the widowed Duchess of Rothsay, directing her to take her course to Perth, by the shores of Lochleven, without approaching Falkland, and committing to her charge Catharine Glover and the glee woman, as persons whose safety he tendered.
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It is not our object to enter into the historical part of the reign of the ill-fated Mary, or to recount how, during the week which succeeded her flight from Lochleven, her partisans mustered around her with their followers, forming a gallant army, amounting to six thousand men.
The Abbot 2008
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The prior of Lochleven makes no mention either of the evasion of one of the Gaelic champions, or of the gallantry of the Perth artisan, in offering to take a share in the conflict.
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The tenor of our tale carries us back to the Castle of Lochleven, where we take up the order of events on the same remarkable day on which
The Abbot 2008
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