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... Dominie Sampson , the reader may easily suppose that a poor modest humble scholar , who has won his way through the classics , yet has fallen to leeward in the voyage of life , is no uncommon personage in a country , where a certain ...
... Dominie Sampson , the reader may easily suppose that a poor modest humble scholar , who has won his way through the classics , yet has fallen to leeward in the voyage of life , is no uncommon personage in a country , where a certain ...
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... Dominie Sampson uses to Miss Bertram , and professed his determination not to leave her . Accordingly , roused to the exercise of talents which had long slumbered , he opened a little school , and supported his patron's child for the ...
... Dominie Sampson uses to Miss Bertram , and professed his determination not to leave her . Accordingly , roused to the exercise of talents which had long slumbered , he opened a little school , and supported his patron's child for the ...
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... Dominie Samp- son . He was of low birth , but having evinced , even from his cradle , an uncommon seriousness of disposition , the poor parents were encouraged to hope that their bairn , as they expressed it , " might wag his pow in a ...
... Dominie Samp- son . He was of low birth , but having evinced , even from his cradle , an uncommon seriousness of disposition , the poor parents were encouraged to hope that their bairn , as they expressed it , " might wag his pow in a ...
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... Dominie Sampson bore a disappointment which supplied the whole town with a week's sport . It would be endless even ... Dominie Sampson . Conversation , it is true , was out of the question , but the Dominie was a good listener , and ...
... Dominie Sampson bore a disappointment which supplied the whole town with a week's sport . It would be endless even ... Dominie Sampson . Conversation , it is true , was out of the question , but the Dominie was a good listener , and ...
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... Dominie the honour to sit up wi ' us , I am sure we shall not detain you very late . Luckie Howatson is very expeditious ; -there was ance a lass that was in that way - she did not live far from hereabouts - ye needna shake your head ...
... Dominie the honour to sit up wi ' us , I am sure we shall not detain you very late . Luckie Howatson is very expeditious ; -there was ance a lass that was in that way - she did not live far from hereabouts - ye needna shake your head ...
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Allonby answered appearance Astrologer auld Aweel bairn better called Captain castle character Charles Hazlewood circumstances Colonel Mannering counsellor Dandie dear Derncleugh deyvil Dinmont Dirk Hatteraick Dominie Sampson door Ellangowan father favour fear feelings fellow frae Frank Kennedy gentleman gipsy Glossin gude Guy Mannering hand Hazlewood House head heard honour hope horse Julia justice justice of peace Kennedy Kippletringan Laird Liddesdale light look Lucy Bertram lugger Mac-Candlish Mac-Guffog Mac-Morlan mair Mannering's Matilda maun Merrilies mind Miss Bertram Miss Mannering morning muckle never night observed occasion ower person Pleydell poor Portanferry postilion prisoner recollection replied round ruin scene Scotland seemed Singleside smugglers stranger suppose tell there's thought tion turned Vanbeest Brown voice Warroch weel window woman wood Woodbourne ye'll young Hazlewood young lady younker