Guy ManneringJ.M. Dent and Sons, 1912 - 427 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 47
Page ix
... attended the funeral as chief mourner , and assumed the title of Baron Altham , but when he claimed to have this title registered he was refused by the king - at - arms on account of his nephew being reported still alive , and for want ...
... attended the funeral as chief mourner , and assumed the title of Baron Altham , but when he claimed to have this title registered he was refused by the king - at - arms on account of his nephew being reported still alive , and for want ...
Page x
... attending the corpse of their late lord to the tomb . " The usurper now commenced a series of attempts to obtain possession of his nephew's person , for the purpose of transporting him beyond seas , or otherwise ridding himself of so ...
... attending the corpse of their late lord to the tomb . " The usurper now commenced a series of attempts to obtain possession of his nephew's person , for the purpose of transporting him beyond seas , or otherwise ridding himself of so ...
Page 3
... attend his recep- tion , and could not escape his eye . The lady of the house was , he said , confined to her apartment , and on the point of making her husband a father for the first time , though they had been ten years married . At ...
... attend his recep- tion , and could not escape his eye . The lady of the house was , he said , confined to her apartment , and on the point of making her husband a father for the first time , though they had been ten years married . At ...
Page 33
... event itself , and partly from terror at the hideous grimaces which attended this unusual cachinnation . The only effect which the discovery of B such impositions produced upon this saturnine personage was , to Guy Mannering 33.
... event itself , and partly from terror at the hideous grimaces which attended this unusual cachinnation . The only effect which the discovery of B such impositions produced upon this saturnine personage was , to Guy Mannering 33.
Page 35
... attend at the canny minute . This was the ken - no , so called because its existence was secret ( that is , presumed to be so ) from all the males of the family , but especially from the husband and master . He was , accordingly ...
... attend at the canny minute . This was the ken - no , so called because its existence was secret ( that is , presumed to be so ) from all the males of the family , but especially from the husband and master . He was , accordingly ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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 eyes 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 land 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