Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer, Volume 1James Ballantyne and Company For Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London; and Archibald Constable and Company Edinburgh., 1815 - 358 pages |
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bis wood , shooting his game , and so forth , “ for the laird , honest man , he ' ll
never find it , - he never minds what a puir body does . ” - Pedlars , gypsies ,
tinkers , vagrants of all descriptions , roosted about his outhouses , or harboured
in his ...
bis wood , shooting his game , and so forth , “ for the laird , honest man , he ' ll
never find it , - he never minds what a puir body does . ” - Pedlars , gypsies ,
tinkers , vagrants of all descriptions , roosted about his outhouses , or harboured
in his ...
Page 96
And the lady , on ilka Christmas night as it came round , gae twelve siller pennies
to ilka puir body about , in honour of the twelve apostles like . They were fond to
ca ' it papistrie ; but I think our great folk might take a lesson frae the papists ...
And the lady , on ilka Christmas night as it came round , gae twelve siller pennies
to ilka puir body about , in honour of the twelve apostles like . They were fond to
ca ' it papistrie ; but I think our great folk might take a lesson frae the papists ...
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At length , after a minute and fruitless investigation through the wood , the
searchers began to draw together into one body and to compare notes . The
agony of the father grew beyond concealment , yet it scarcely equalled the
anguish of the ...
At length , after a minute and fruitless investigation through the wood , the
searchers began to draw together into one body and to compare notes . The
agony of the father grew beyond concealment , yet it scarcely equalled the
anguish of the ...
Page 157
At any rate , it was certain that several persons must have forced their passage
among the oaks , hazels , and underwood , with which they were mingled ; and in
some places appeared traces , as if a sack full of grain , a dead body , or ...
At any rate , it was certain that several persons must have forced their passage
among the oaks , hazels , and underwood , with which they were mingled ; and in
some places appeared traces , as if a sack full of grain , a dead body , or ...
Page 193
O aye , sir , there ' s nae doubt of that , though there are mony idle clashes about
the way and manner ; for it ' s an auld story now , and every body tells it , as we
were doing , their ain way by the ingle - side . But lost the bairn was in his fifth ...
O aye , sir , there ' s nae doubt of that , though there are mony idle clashes about
the way and manner ; for it ' s an auld story now , and every body tells it , as we
were doing , their ain way by the ingle - side . But lost the bairn was in his fifth ...
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| Title | Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer, Volume 1 Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown |
| Author | Walter Scott |
| Contributors | James Ballantyne and Co, Archibald Constable & Co, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | James Ballantyne and Company For Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London; and Archibald Constable and Company Edinburgh., 1815 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 11 Jun 2008 |
| Length | 358 pages |
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