Novels and Tales of the Author of Waverley: Guy Mannering, Volume 2Constable, 1822 |
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... woman of the house was employed in baking . The fire , as is usual in that country , was made on a stone hearth in the midst of an immensely large chim- ney , which had two seats extended beneath the vent . On one of these sat a ...
... woman of the house was employed in baking . The fire , as is usual in that country , was made on a stone hearth in the midst of an immensely large chim- ney , which had two seats extended beneath the vent . On one of these sat a ...
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... woman , dropping her pipe , and rising and coming forward upon the floor - " died ! —are ye sure of that ? " 66 Troth , am I , " said Dinmont , " for it made nae sma ' noise in the country - side . He died just at the roup of the ...
... woman , dropping her pipe , and rising and coming forward upon the floor - " died ! —are ye sure of that ? " 66 Troth , am I , " said Dinmont , " for it made nae sma ' noise in the country - side . He died just at the roup of the ...
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... woman , let me away - there's saxpence t'ye to buy half a mutckin , instead o ' clavering about thae auld- warld stories . " " Thanks to ye , good - man - and now ye hae an- wered a ' my questions , and never spiered where- fore I asked ...
... woman , let me away - there's saxpence t'ye to buy half a mutckin , instead o ' clavering about thae auld- warld stories . " " Thanks to ye , good - man - and now ye hae an- wered a ' my questions , and never spiered where- fore I asked ...
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... woman , as of others of the same description , that a life of ac- tion , though not of labour , gave her the perfect command of her limbs and figure , so that the atti- tudes into which she most naturally threw herself , were free ...
... woman , as of others of the same description , that a life of ac- tion , though not of labour , gave her the perfect command of her limbs and figure , so that the atti- tudes into which she most naturally threw herself , were free ...
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... woman recal to my recollection some of the strange figures I have seen in our Indian pagodas ? ” While he embarrassed himself with these dis- cussions , and the hostess was engaged in rumma- ging out silver in change of half - a ...
... woman recal to my recollection some of the strange figures I have seen in our Indian pagodas ? ” While he embarrassed himself with these dis- cussions , and the hostess was engaged in rumma- ging out silver in change of half - a ...
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