Guy Mannering; Or, The Astrologer |
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... called gipsies ; who are in most cases a mixed race , between the ancient Egyptians who arrived in Europe about the beginning of the fifteenth century , and vagrants of European descent . The individual gipsy upon whom the character of ...
... called gipsies ; who are in most cases a mixed race , between the ancient Egyptians who arrived in Europe about the beginning of the fifteenth century , and vagrants of European descent . The individual gipsy upon whom the character of ...
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... called her sons , would be soon home . The poor farmer made a virtue of necessity , told his story , and surrendered his gold to Jean's custody . She made him put a few shillings in his pocket , ob- serving it would excite suspicion ...
... called her sons , would be soon home . The poor farmer made a virtue of necessity , told his story , and surrendered his gold to Jean's custody . She made him put a few shillings in his pocket , ob- serving it would excite suspicion ...
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... called it , in a dry - stone fence , and lugged the unresisting animal through the breach , about a rood of the simple masonry giving way in the splutter with which he passed . Finally , he led the way , through a wicket , into some ...
... called it , in a dry - stone fence , and lugged the unresisting animal through the breach , about a rood of the simple masonry giving way in the splutter with which he passed . Finally , he led the way , through a wicket , into some ...
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... called Mac - Dingawaie , though they afterwards adopted the Norman surname of Bertram . They had made war , raised rebellions , been defeated , beheaded , and hanged , as became a family of importance , for many centuries . But they had ...
... called Mac - Dingawaie , though they afterwards adopted the Norman surname of Bertram . They had made war , raised rebellions , been defeated , beheaded , and hanged , as became a family of importance , for many centuries . But they had ...
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... called the Whigs ' Vault , in which he was confined with some eighty of the same persuasion . The ap- prizer , therefore , ( as the holder of a mortgage was then called , ) entered upon possession , and , in the language of Hotspur ...
... called the Whigs ' Vault , in which he was confined with some eighty of the same persuasion . The ap- prizer , therefore , ( as the holder of a mortgage was then called , ) entered upon possession , and , in the language of Hotspur ...
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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