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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... land ; and curiosity extended his tour into the adjacent frontier of the sister country . He had visited , upon the day that opens our history , some monastic ruins in the county of Dumfries , and spent much of the day GUY MANNERING; ...
... land ; and curiosity extended his tour into the adjacent frontier of the sister country . He had visited , upon the day that opens our history , some monastic ruins in the county of Dumfries , and spent much of the day GUY MANNERING; ...
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... land , A huge half - moon , a monstrous cantle out . HENRY FOURTH , Part I. THE Company in the parlour at Ellan- gowan , consisted of the Laird himself , and a sort of person who might be the village schoolmaster , or perhaps the ...
... land , A huge half - moon , a monstrous cantle out . HENRY FOURTH , Part I. THE Company in the parlour at Ellan- gowan , consisted of the Laird himself , and a sort of person who might be the village schoolmaster , or perhaps the ...
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... lands , evacuated the old 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 ...
... lands , evacuated the old 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 ...
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... land into his own hand , rented some from neighbouring pro- prietors , bought and sold Highland cattle and Cheviot sheep , rode to fairs and trysts , fought hard bargains , and held necessity at the staff's end as well as he might . But ...
... land into his own hand , rented some from neighbouring pro- prietors , bought and sold Highland cattle and Cheviot sheep , rode to fairs and trysts , fought hard bargains , and held necessity at the staff's end as well as he might . But ...
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... much better than you how to spae his fortune - he does it by the stars . " Certainly , sir , " said Mannering , enter- ing into the simple humour of his land- lord , " I will calculate his nativity accord- ing 40 GUY MANNERING ,
... much better than you how to spae his fortune - he does it by the stars . " Certainly , sir , " said Mannering , enter- ing into the simple humour of his land- lord , " I will calculate his nativity accord- ing 40 GUY MANNERING ,
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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