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 21
... ing down part of these venerable ruins , he built a narrow house of three stories height , with a front like a grenadier's cap , two windows on each side , and a door in the midst , full of all manner of cross lights . GUY MANNERING . 21.
... ing down part of these venerable ruins , he built a narrow house of three stories height , with a front like a grenadier's cap , two windows on each side , and a door in the midst , full of all manner of cross lights . GUY MANNERING . 21.
Page 31
... stories of Ellangowan . Upon one of these 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 ...
... stories of Ellangowan . Upon one of these 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 ...
Page 35
... story , and singing at full pitch of voice . The high notes were too shrill for a man , the low seemed too deep for a woman . The words , as far as Mannering could distinguish them , seem- ed to run thus : Canny moment , lucky fit ; Is ...
... story , and singing at full pitch of voice . The high notes were too shrill for a man , the low seemed too deep for a woman . The words , as far as Mannering could distinguish them , seem- ed to run thus : Canny moment , lucky fit ; Is ...
Page 74
... story about that . There was ance a laird - that's Mac- fie of Gudgeonford , he had a great num- ber of kain hens - that's hens that the te- nant pay to the landlord - like a sort of - " " rent in kind - they aye feed mine 74 GUY ...
... story about that . There was ance a laird - that's Mac- fie of Gudgeonford , he had a great num- ber of kain hens - that's hens that the te- nant pay to the landlord - like a sort of - " " rent in kind - they aye feed mine 74 GUY ...
Page 78
... story about the road , and the fauld dike I ken Sir Thomas was behind there , and I said plainly to the clerk to the trus tees that I saw the cloven foot , let them take that as they like- would any gentle- man , or set of gentlemen ...
... story about the road , and the fauld dike I ken Sir Thomas was behind there , and I said plainly to the clerk to the trus tees that I saw the cloven foot , let them take that as they like- would any gentle- man , or set of gentlemen ...
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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