Guy ManneringJ.M. Dent and Sons, 1912 - 427 pages |
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Page vii
... thought would be most in- teresting to him . " A fellow - worker of Train's was easily persuaded to acquiesce in the abandonment of their original design . “ Upon receiving Mr. Scott's letter , " wrote Train , " I became still more ...
... thought would be most in- teresting to him . " A fellow - worker of Train's was easily persuaded to acquiesce in the abandonment of their original design . “ Upon receiving Mr. Scott's letter , " wrote Train , " I became still more ...
Page 7
... thought a long and somewhat perilous journey , to the mansion of the early friend who had calculated his nativity . His road lay through several places of interest , and he enjoyed the amusement of travelling , more than he himself thought ...
... thought a long and somewhat perilous journey , to the mansion of the early friend who had calculated his nativity . His road lay through several places of interest , and he enjoyed the amusement of travelling , more than he himself thought ...
Page 10
... thought that a person of this description ought , from his knowledge of the thousand ways in which human eyes could be deceived , to have been less than others subject to the fantasies of superstition . Perhaps the habitual use of those ...
... thought that a person of this description ought , from his knowledge of the thousand ways in which human eyes could be deceived , to have been less than others subject to the fantasies of superstition . Perhaps the habitual use of those ...
Page 22
... thought Mannering , who was ignorant of the meaning of the phrase ; " but how shall I get to the place , as you call it ? " " Ye maun haud wessel by the end o ' the loan , and take tent o ' the jaw - hole . " " O , if ye get to eassel ...
... thought Mannering , who was ignorant of the meaning of the phrase ; " but how shall I get to the place , as you call it ? " " Ye maun haud wessel by the end o ' the loan , and take tent o ' the jaw - hole . " " O , if ye get to eassel ...
Page 29
... thought them flying out of his head , shut the Bible , stumbled down the pulpit - stairs , trampling upon the old women who generally take their station there , and was ever after designated as a stickit minister . " And thus he ...
... thought them flying out of his head , shut the Bible , stumbled down the pulpit - stairs , trampling upon the old women who generally take their station there , and was ever after designated as a stickit minister . " And thus he ...
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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