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... Dominie Sampson , the reader may easily suppose that a poor modest humble scholar , who has won his way through the classics , yet has fallen to leeward in the voyage of life , is no uncommon per- sonage in a country , where a certain ...
... Dominie Sampson , the reader may easily suppose that a poor modest humble scholar , who has won his way through the classics , yet has fallen to leeward in the voyage of life , is no uncommon per- sonage in a country , where a certain ...
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... Dominie Sampson uses to Miss Bertram , and professed his determination not to leave her . Accordingly , roused to the exercise of talents which had long slumbered , he opened a little school , and supported his patron's child for the ...
... Dominie Sampson uses to Miss Bertram , and professed his determination not to leave her . Accordingly , roused to the exercise of talents which had long slumbered , he opened a little school , and supported his patron's child for the ...
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... Dominie Sampson . He was of low birth , but having evinced , even from his cradle , an uncom- mon seriousness of disposition , the poor parents were encouraged to hope that their bairn , as they expressed it , " might wag his pow in a ...
... Dominie Sampson . He was of low birth , but having evinced , even from his cradle , an uncom- mon seriousness of disposition , the poor parents were encouraged to hope that their bairn , as they expressed it , " might wag his pow in a ...
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... Dominie Sampson bore a disappointment which supplied the whole town with a week's sport . It would be endless even to mention the numerous jokes to which it gave birth , from a ballad , called “ Sampson's Riddle , ” written upon the ...
... Dominie Sampson bore a disappointment which supplied the whole town with a week's sport . It would be endless even to mention the numerous jokes to which it gave birth , from a ballad , called “ Sampson's Riddle , ” written upon the ...
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... Dominie Sampson . Conversation , it is true , was out of the question , but the Dominie was a good listener , and stirred the fire with some address . He attempted even to snuff the candles , but was unsuccessful , and relinquished that ...
... Dominie Sampson . Conversation , it is true , was out of the question , but the Dominie was a good listener , and stirred the fire with some address . He attempted even to snuff the candles , but was unsuccessful , and relinquished that ...
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Allonby answered appearance Astrologer auld Aweel bairn better called Captain castle character Charles Hazlewood Charlies-hope 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 horse Julia justice justice of peace Kennedy Kippletringan Laird 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 naething never night observed occasion ower person Pleydell poor Portanferry postilion prisoner recollection replied round ruin scene Scotland seemed Singleside Sir Robert Hazlewood smugglers stranger supposed tell there's thing thought tion turned Vanbeest Brown voice Warroch weel window woman wood Woodbourne young Hazlewood young lady younker