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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... it no real danger . Still it is uncomfortable to travel , alone and in the dark , through an unknown country , and there are few or- dinary occasions upon which Fancy frets herself so much as in a situation like that of GUY MANNERING .
... it no real danger . Still it is uncomfortable to travel , alone and in the dark , through an unknown country , and there are few or- dinary occasions upon which Fancy frets herself so much as in a situation like that of GUY MANNERING .
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... occasion to ride in a chill evening . Godfrey Bertram , of Ellangowan , suc ceeded to a long pedigree and a short rent - roll , like many lairds of that period . His list of forefathers ascended so high , that they were lost in the ...
... occasion to ride in a chill evening . Godfrey Bertram , of Ellangowan , suc ceeded to a long pedigree and a short rent - roll , like many lairds of that period . His list of forefathers ascended so high , that they were lost in the ...
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... occasion , when they conceived . themselves oppressed by the gentry , they were in the habit of saying to each other ... occasions , turning their cattle into his parks , stealing his wood , shooting his game , and so forth 24 GUY ...
... occasion , when they conceived . themselves oppressed by the gentry , they were in the habit of saying to each other ... occasions , turning their cattle into his parks , stealing his wood , shooting his game , and so forth 24 GUY ...
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... occasions , he pre- sented for the first time to Mannering his tall , gaunt , awkward , boney figure , atti- red in a threadbare suit of black , with a coloured handkerchief , not over clean , about his sinewy , scraggy neck , and his ...
... occasions , he pre- sented for the first time to Mannering his tall , gaunt , awkward , boney figure , atti- red in a threadbare suit of black , with a coloured handkerchief , not over clean , about his sinewy , scraggy neck , and his ...
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... occasion his land- lady miscarried , partly through surprise at the event itself , and partly from terror at the hideous grimaces which attended this unusual cachinnation . The only effect which the discovery of such impositions ...
... occasion his land- lady miscarried , partly through surprise at the event itself , and partly from terror at the hideous grimaces which attended this unusual cachinnation . The only effect which the discovery of such impositions ...
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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