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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Page 19
... Dennis Bertram was again suspected by government , apprehended , sent to
Dunnotar Castle , on the coast of the Mearns , and there broke his neck in an
attempt to escape from a subterranean habitation , called the Whig ' s Vault , in
which ...
... Dennis Bertram was again suspected by government , apprehended , sent to
Dunnotar Castle , on the coast of the Mearns , and there broke his neck in an
attempt to escape from a subterranean habitation , called the Whig ' s Vault , in
which ...
Page 61
once to have possessed among the chiefs and nobles of the district . In other
places , the shore was of a more gentle description , indented with small bays ,
where the land sloped smoothly down , or sent into the sea promontories covered
with ...
once to have possessed among the chiefs and nobles of the district . In other
places , the shore was of a more gentle description , indented with small bays ,
where the land sloped smoothly down , or sent into the sea promontories covered
with ...
Page 133
and was na I much the better of these Flanders head and pinners , that Dirk
Hatteraick sent me all the way frae Antwerp ? It will be lang or the King sends me
ony thing , or Frank Kennedy either . And then ye would quarrel with these
gypsies ...
and was na I much the better of these Flanders head and pinners , that Dirk
Hatteraick sent me all the way frae Antwerp ? It will be lang or the King sends me
ony thing , or Frank Kennedy either . And then ye would quarrel with these
gypsies ...
Page 185
... Skreighonly that I lived within a penny - stane cast o ' the head o ' the avenue at
Ellangowan , when a man cam jingling to our door that night the young Laird was
born , and my mother sent me , that was a hafflin callant , to shew the stranger ...
... Skreighonly that I lived within a penny - stane cast o ' the head o ' the avenue at
Ellangowan , when a man cam jingling to our door that night the young Laird was
born , and my mother sent me , that was a hafflin callant , to shew the stranger ...
Page 284
He was bred to commerce , and sent very early to one of our settlements in the
East , where his guardian had a cor . respondent - But this correspondent was
dead when he arrived in India , and he had no other resource than to offer
himself as ...
He was bred to commerce , and sent very early to one of our settlements in the
East , where his guardian had a cor . respondent - But this correspondent was
dead when he arrived in India , and he had no other resource than to offer
himself as ...
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