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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... gypsies , tinkers , vagrants of all descriptions , roosted about his out- houses , or harboured in his kitchen , and the laird , who was " nae nice body , ” but a thorough gossip , like most weak men , found recompence for his ...
... gypsies , tinkers , vagrants of all descriptions , roosted about his out- houses , or harboured in his kitchen , and the laird , who was " nae nice body , ” but a thorough gossip , like most weak men , found recompence for his ...
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... , forbye my- sell , and deil ane to gie them hansels . ' " " " Weel , Meg , and how mony gypsies were sent to the tolbooth ? " " Troth , but three , Laird , for there were nae mair in the fair , bye mysell as I 38 GUY MANNERING ,
... , forbye my- sell , and deil ane to gie them hansels . ' " " " Weel , Meg , and how mony gypsies were sent to the tolbooth ? " " Troth , but three , Laird , for there were nae mair in the fair , bye mysell as I 38 GUY MANNERING ,
Page 97
... gypsies , with one of whom our reader is somewhat acquainted , and who had for a great many years enjoyed their chief set- tlement upon the estate of Ellangowan . VOL . I , E DLE CHAPTER VII . Come , princes of the ragged GUY MANNERING .
... gypsies , with one of whom our reader is somewhat acquainted , and who had for a great many years enjoyed their chief set- tlement upon the estate of Ellangowan . VOL . I , E DLE CHAPTER VII . Come , princes of the ragged GUY MANNERING .
Page 98
... gypsies were , at an early period , acknowledged as a se- parate and independent race by one of the Scottish monarchs , and that they were less favourably distinguished by a subse- quent law , which rendered the character of gypsy equal ...
... gypsies were , at an early period , acknowledged as a se- parate and independent race by one of the Scottish monarchs , and that they were less favourably distinguished by a subse- quent law , which rendered the character of gypsy equal ...
Page 99
Walter Scott. quent law , which rendered the character of gypsy equal , in the judicial balance , to that of common and habitual thief , and prescribed his punishment accordingly . Notwithstanding the severity of this and other statutes ...
Walter Scott. quent law , which rendered the character of gypsy equal , in the judicial balance , to that of common and habitual thief , and prescribed his punishment accordingly . Notwithstanding the severity of this and other statutes ...
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ancient answered appearance Arthur Mervyn ASTROLOGER auld bairn Brown called castle Charles Hazlewood circumstances Colonel Mannering commanded daugh daughter Deacon dear Derncleugh Dirk Hatteraick Dominie Sampson door Dunbog Ellan eyes father fear feelings flageolet frae Frank Kennedy gentleman Glossin Godfrey Bertram GUY MANNERING gypsies Harry Bertram Hazlewood head heard honour hope horse hour judicial astrology Julia Kippletringan Laird of Ellangowan land landlady look lugger Mac-Candlish Mac-Morlan Mannering's Matilda maun ment Merrilies Mervyn Miss Bertram Miss Lucy Miss Mannering Morlan nering never night occasion parlour person Point of Warroch poor precentor puir racter reader ride round ruins scene Scotland seemed servant sloop sloop of war stranger supposed sure tell ther there's thing thought tion told turned vessel weel window wish wood Woodbourne ye'll young lady young Laird