Waverley

[ wey-ver-lee ]

/ ˈweɪ vər li /

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a city in New South Wales, SE Australia, near Sydney.

QUIZZES

In effect, this quiz will prove whether or not you have the skills to know the difference between “affect” and “effect.”

Question 1 of 7

The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

The Lay, a rhyming romance; Waverley an historical novel; what, it may be asked, is so very remarkable about their origins?
Sir Walter Scott|William Paton Ker
I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it, but fear I must.
Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters|William Austen-Leigh and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh
I don't think Babie and Sydney realise any one being in love nearer our own times than 'Waverley' at the very latest.
Magnum Bonum|Charlotte M. Yonge
What book of fiction of the present century can you read twice, with the exception of ‘Waverley’ and ‘Rob Roy?’
The Romany Rye|George Borrow

Under what disadvantages does the historical play appear after the historical novels of the Author of Waverley!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 356, June, 1845|Various