Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer, Volume 3James Ballantyne and Company For Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London; and Archibald Constable and Company Edinburgh., 1817 - 358 pages |
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Page 62
... ladies and a servant , and before I could either pass them or ad- dress them , this young Hazlewood took his gun from his servant , presented it against my body , and commanded me in the most haughty 62 GUY MANNERING .
... ladies and a servant , and before I could either pass them or ad- dress them , this young Hazlewood took his gun from his servant , presented it against my body , and commanded me in the most haughty 62 GUY MANNERING .
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... pass , or be taken , credited , and received ? " " I beg leave , " said Bertram , his recol- lection turning to the gypsey female , and to the promise he had given her , " I beg leave to decline answering that question . " " I thought ...
... pass , or be taken , credited , and received ? " " I beg leave , " said Bertram , his recol- lection turning to the gypsey female , and to the promise he had given her , " I beg leave to decline answering that question . " " I thought ...
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... trust , that that's been ane o ' the men killed there , and that it's been the gypsies that took your pockmanky when they fand the chaise stickin in the snaw they wadna pass the like o ' that it wad just come 110 GUY MANNERING .
... trust , that that's been ane o ' the men killed there , and that it's been the gypsies that took your pockmanky when they fand the chaise stickin in the snaw they wadna pass the like o ' that it wad just come 110 GUY MANNERING .
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Walter Scott. pass the like o ' that it wad just come to their hand like the bowl o ' a pint stoup . " " But if this woman is a sovereign among them , why was she not able to af- ford me open protection , and to get me back my property ...
Walter Scott. pass the like o ' that it wad just come to their hand like the bowl o ' a pint stoup . " " But if this woman is a sovereign among them , why was she not able to af- ford me open protection , and to get me back my property ...
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... pass these haunted walls . The lights , often seen around the tower when used as the rendezvous of the lawless characters by whom it was occasionally frequented , were accounted for , under authority of these 1 tales of witchery , in a ...
... pass these haunted walls . The lights , often seen around the tower when used as the rendezvous of the lawless characters by whom it was occasionally frequented , were accounted for , under authority of these 1 tales of witchery , in a ...
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acromion process Allonby ance answered arms auld Aweel Baronet better called Captain carriage castle Charles Hazlewood Colonel Mannering counsellor court-yard custom-house dear Derncleugh deyvil Dinmont dinna Dirk Hatteraick Dominie door eyes father favour feelings fire follow Glossin gude GUY MANNERING gypsey hand Hazlewood of Hazlewood Hazlewood-house hear heard heart Henry Bertram honour horse hour Julia kenn'd Kippletringan ladies Laird late Ellangowan Liddesdale light look Lucy Mac-Guffog Mac-Morlan mair Mannering's maun mean Meg Merrilies ment Merrilies mind Miss Bertram Miss Mannering morning murder neighbour never night ower person Pleydell Portanferry prisoner raick recollection respect ruin Sampson Scotland Sir Robert Hazlewood smugglers spect suppose tell there's thing thought tion tram turn Vanbeest Brown voice weel wood Woodbourne word ye'll young Hazlewood younker
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Page 137 - Ecstasy! My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music. It is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word, which madness Would gambol from.
Page 80 - A prison is a house of care. A place where none can thrive, A touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for one alive. Sometimes a place of right. Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves, And honest men among.
Page 38 - He took his flageolet from his pocket, and played a simple melody. Apparently the tune awoke the corresponding associations of a damsel, who, close beside a fine spring about halfway down the descent, and which had once supplied the castle with water, was engaged in bleaching linen.
Page 297 - Receive our aid, and then again The story of thy life disclose. For, though seduced and led astray, Thou'st travell'd far and wander'd long; Thy God hath seen thee all the way, And all the turns that led thee wrong.
Page 37 - I remember the tune well,' he says, ' though I cannot guess what should at present so strongly recall it to my memory. ' He took his flageolet from his pocket and played a simple melody. Apparently the tune awoke the corresponding associations of a damsel.