Guy ManneringJ.M. Dent and Sons, 1912 - 427 pages |
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... give up the estates , when again his consistent ill - luck intervenes . The story thus pictures the incident : — " After his arrival in England , Annesley unfortunately occasioned the death of a man by the accidental discharge of a ...
... give up the estates , when again his consistent ill - luck intervenes . The story thus pictures the incident : — " After his arrival in England , Annesley unfortunately occasioned the death of a man by the accidental discharge of a ...
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... give thee grace to support it with firmness ! " The young man was left alone ; and hardly did he find him- self so , when , like a swarm of demons , the recollection of all his sins of omission and commission , rendered even more ...
... give thee grace to support it with firmness ! " The young man was left alone ; and hardly did he find him- self so , when , like a swarm of demons , the recollection of all his sins of omission and commission , rendered even more ...
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... give me a night's lodgings ? " 1 The Hope , often pronounced Whaap , is the sheltered part or hollow of the hill . Hoff , howff , haaf , and haven , are all modifications of the same word , " Troth can I no - I am a lone Guy Mannering 21.
... give me a night's lodgings ? " 1 The Hope , often pronounced Whaap , is the sheltered part or hollow of the hill . Hoff , howff , haaf , and haven , are all modifications of the same word , " Troth can I no - I am a lone Guy Mannering 21.
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... give the reader some insight into his state and conversa- tion , before he has finished a long lecture to Mannering , upon the propriety and comfort of wrapping his stirrup - irons round with a wisp of straw when he had occasion to ride ...
... give the reader some insight into his state and conversa- tion , before he has finished a long lecture to Mannering , upon the propriety and comfort of wrapping his stirrup - irons round with a wisp of straw when he had occasion to ride ...
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... gives him this character : " He was a man of eminent parts and resolution , for which reason he was chosen by the western counties one of the committee of noblemen and gentlemen , to report their griefs to the privy council of Charles ...
... gives him this character : " He was a man of eminent parts and resolution , for which reason he was chosen by the western counties one of the committee of noblemen and gentlemen , to report their griefs to the privy council of Charles ...
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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 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