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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... gave him an opportu- nity to execute his purpose . He found out the door with no small difficulty , and for some time knocked without producing any other answer than a duett between a female and a cur- dog , the latter yelping as if he ...
... gave him an opportu- nity to execute his purpose . He found out the door with no small difficulty , and for some time knocked without producing any other answer than a duett between a female and a cur- dog , the latter yelping as if he ...
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... conduct- ed to a stall , and Mannering found him- self in a few minutes seated by a comfort- able supper , to which his cold ride gave him a hearty appetite . CHAPTER II . Comes me cranking in , And cuts 14 GUY MANNERING .
... conduct- ed to a stall , and Mannering found him- self in a few minutes seated by a comfort- able supper , to which his cold ride gave him a hearty appetite . CHAPTER II . Comes me cranking in , And cuts 14 GUY MANNERING .
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... gave birth , from a ballad , called " Sampson's Riddle , " written upon the subject by a smart young student of humanity , to the sly hope of the principal , that the fugitive had not taken the college gates along with him in his ...
... gave birth , from a ballad , called " Sampson's Riddle , " written upon the subject by a smart young student of humanity , to the sly hope of the principal , that the fugitive had not taken the college gates along with him in his ...
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... : and even at this day ' Tis Jupiter who brings whate'er is great , And Venus who brings every thing that's fair . " Such musings soon gave way to others . VOL . I. C " Alas ! " he thought , " my good GUY MANNERING . 49.
... : and even at this day ' Tis Jupiter who brings whate'er is great , And Venus who brings every thing that's fair . " Such musings soon gave way to others . VOL . I. C " Alas ! " he thought , " my good GUY MANNERING . 49.
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... lines of straggling hedge- rows a little way up the ascent . Above these were green pastures , tenanted chiefly . by herds of black cattle , then the staple commodity of the country , whose distant low gave no GUY MANNERING . 59.
... lines of straggling hedge- rows a little way up the ascent . Above these were green pastures , tenanted chiefly . by herds of black cattle , then the staple commodity of the country , whose distant low gave no GUY MANNERING . 59.
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