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... expressed , in the most glowing terms , his reliance on the truth , and on the Author , of the Gospel . The demon retired , yelling and discomfited , and the old man , entering the apartment , with tears congratulated his guest on his ...
... expressed , in the most glowing terms , his reliance on the truth , and on the Author , of the Gospel . The demon retired , yelling and discomfited , and the old man , entering the apartment , with tears congratulated his guest on his ...
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... expressed very generally . Such a preceptor as Mr. Sampson is supposed to have been , was actually tutor in the family of a gentleman of considerable property . The young lads , his pupils , grew up and went out in the world , but the ...
... expressed very generally . Such a preceptor as Mr. Sampson is supposed to have been , was actually tutor in the family of a gentleman of considerable property . The young lads , his pupils , grew up and went out in the world , but the ...
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... expressed it , " might wag his pow in a pulpit yet . " With an ambitious view to such a consum- mation , they pinched and pared , rose early and lay down late , ate dry bread and drank cold water , to secure to Abel the means of ...
... expressed it , " might wag his pow in a pulpit yet . " With an ambitious view to such a consum- mation , they pinched and pared , rose early and lay down late , ate dry bread and drank cold water , to secure to Abel the means of ...
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... expressed by a modern poet : " For fable is Love's world , his home , his birth - place : Delightedly dwells he ' mong fays , and talismans , And spirits , and delightedly believes Divinities , being himself divine . The intelligible ...
... expressed by a modern poet : " For fable is Love's world , his home , his birth - place : Delightedly dwells he ' mong fays , and talismans , And spirits , and delightedly believes Divinities , being himself divine . The intelligible ...
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... expression or modification . “ Where are you , Mother Deyvilson ? " he said , with somewhat of a foreign accent , though speaking perfectly good English . " Donner and blitzen ! we have been staying this half hour - Come , bless the ...
... expression or modification . “ Where are you , Mother Deyvilson ? " he said , with somewhat of a foreign accent , though speaking perfectly good English . " Donner and blitzen ! we have been staying this half hour - Come , bless the ...
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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