“War's a fearsome thing. They'll be cunning that catches me at this wark again.”
Old Mortality, Volume II (1816), Chapter XI.
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Old Mortality
Old Mortality is a novel by Walter Scott set in the period 1679–89 in south west Scotland. It forms, along with The Black Dwarf, the 1st series of Scott's Tales of My Landlord. The two novels were published together in 1816. Old Mortality is considered one of Scott's best novels.
Old Mortality, Chap. xxxiv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
