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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... Castle , on the coast of the Mearns , and there broke his neck in an attempt to escape from a subterranean ha- bitation , called the Whig's Vault , in which he was confined with some eighty of the same persuasion . The appriser ...
... Castle , on the coast of the Mearns , and there broke his neck in an attempt to escape from a subterranean ha- bitation , called the Whig's Vault , in which he was confined with some eighty of the same persuasion . The appriser ...
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... castle , where the family lived in their decadence , as a mouse ( said an old farmer ) lives under a firlot . Pull- ing down part of these venerable ruins , he built a narrow house of three stories height , with a front like a ...
... castle , where the family lived in their decadence , as a mouse ( said an old farmer ) lives under a firlot . Pull- ing down part of these venerable ruins , he built a narrow house of three stories height , with a front like a ...
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... castle were situated . The wind had arisen , and swept before it the clouds which had formerly obscured the sky . The moon was high , and at full , and all the lesser satellites of heaven shone forth in cloud- less effulgence . The ...
... castle were situated . The wind had arisen , and swept before it the clouds which had formerly obscured the sky . The moon was high , and at full , and all the lesser satellites of heaven shone forth in cloud- less effulgence . The ...
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Walter Scott. of the bay , opposite to the old castle , was a sloping and varied promontory , covered chiefly with copsewood , which on that fa- voured coast grows almost within water- mark . A fisherman's cottage peeped from among the ...
Walter Scott. of the bay , opposite to the old castle , was a sloping and varied promontory , covered chiefly with copsewood , which on that fa- voured coast grows almost within water- mark . A fisherman's cottage peeped from among the ...
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... castle . It consisted of two massive round towers , projecting , deeply and darkly , before a curtain , or flat wall , which united them , and thus protecting the main entrance that opened through a lofty arch into the inner court of ...
... castle . It consisted of two massive round towers , projecting , deeply and darkly , before a curtain , or flat wall , which united them , and thus protecting the main entrance that opened through a lofty arch into the inner court of ...
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