Guy ManneringJ.M. Dent and Sons, 1912 - 427 pages |
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Page 8
... turning on the young stranger , as she departed , a look of inexpressible anxiety and interest . The old man then conducted the youth to his study , and conversed with him upon the most important points of religion , to satisfy himself ...
... turning on the young stranger , as she departed , a look of inexpressible anxiety and interest . The old man then conducted the youth to his study , and conversed with him upon the most important points of religion , to satisfy himself ...
Page 25
... turned out of doors the Rev. Aaron Macbriar , his mother's chaplain ( it is said they quarrelled about the good graces of a milkmaid ) , drank him- self daily drunk with brimming healths to the king , council , and bishops ; held orgies ...
... turned out of doors the Rev. Aaron Macbriar , his mother's chaplain ( it is said they quarrelled about the good graces of a milkmaid ) , drank him- self daily drunk with brimming healths to the king , council , and bishops ; held orgies ...
Page 27
... turning their cattle into his parks , stealing his wood , shooting his game , and so forth , " for the laird , honest man , he'll never find it , he never minds what a puir body does . " - Pedlars , gipsies , tinkers , vagrants of all ...
... turning their cattle into his parks , stealing his wood , shooting his game , and so forth , " for the laird , honest man , he'll never find it , he never minds what a puir body does . " - Pedlars , gipsies , tinkers , vagrants of all ...
Page 34
... turned a gaunt and ghastly stare upon the youthful astrologer , and seemed to doubt if he had rightly understood his answer to his patron . " I am afraid , sir , " said Mannering , turning towards him , " you may be one of those unhappy ...
... turned a gaunt and ghastly stare upon the youthful astrologer , and seemed to doubt if he had rightly understood his answer to his patron . " I am afraid , sir , " said Mannering , turning towards him , " you may be one of those unhappy ...
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... turned the ken - no was produced ; and after all had eaten their fill , with a proper accom- paniment of the groaning malt , the remainder was divided among the gossips , each carrying a large portion home with the same affectation of ...
... turned the ken - no was produced ; and after all had eaten their fill , with a proper accom- paniment of the groaning malt , the remainder was divided among the gossips , each carrying a large portion home with the same affectation of ...
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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