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Page 52
... drawn from wool of three different colours , black , white , and grey , by
assistance of those ancient implements of housewifery , now almost banished
from the land , the distaff and spindle . As she spun , she sung what seemed to be
a charm ...
... drawn from wool of three different colours , black , white , and grey , by
assistance of those ancient implements of housewifery , now almost banished
from the land , the distaff and spindle . As she spun , she sung what seemed to be
a charm ...
Page 279
A ledge of rock had , by the assistance of the chisel and pickaxe , been formed
into a sort of quay . The rock was of extremely hard consistence , and the task so
difficult , that , according to the fisherman , a labourer who wrought at the work ...
A ledge of rock had , by the assistance of the chisel and pickaxe , been formed
into a sort of quay . The rock was of extremely hard consistence , and the task so
difficult , that , according to the fisherman , a labourer who wrought at the work ...
Page 296
While with a bent brow and an angry eye he was drawing in his breath slowly
and majestically , and puffing it forth again with deep and solemn exertion ,
Glossin stepped in to his assistance . ' I should think now , Sir Robert , with great
...
While with a bent brow and an angry eye he was drawing in his breath slowly
and majestically , and puffing it forth again with deep and solemn exertion ,
Glossin stepped in to his assistance . ' I should think now , Sir Robert , with great
...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Guy Mannering Collins classics Everyman's Library. no. 133 Issue 133 of Everyman's library Library of Classics New classics-no. 618 Notes on chosen English texts |
| Author | Walter Scott |
| Publisher | Collins, 1955 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 10 Dec 2019 |
| Length | 414 pages |
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