Guy Mannering; Or, The Astrologer |
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... eyes , and his voice faltered with emotion as he said , " Dear child , at whose coming into the world I foresaw this fatal trial , may God give thee grace to support it with firmness ! " The young man was left alone ; and hardly did he ...
... eyes , and his voice faltered with emotion as he said , " Dear child , at whose coming into the world I foresaw this fatal trial , may God give thee grace to support it with firmness ! " The young man was left alone ; and hardly did he ...
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... eyes could be deceived , to have been less than others subject to the fantasies of superstition . Perhaps the habitual use of those abstruse calculations , by which , in a manner surprising to the artist himself , many tricks upon cards ...
... eyes could be deceived , to have been less than others subject to the fantasies of superstition . Perhaps the habitual use of those abstruse calculations , by which , in a manner surprising to the artist himself , many tricks upon cards ...
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... by the mother's side , and was married to a Young . She was a remarkable personage . - of a very commanding presence , and high stature , being nearly six feet high . She had a large -- aquiline nose - penetrating eyes , even in her 14.
... by the mother's side , and was married to a Young . She was a remarkable personage . - of a very commanding presence , and high stature , being nearly six feet high . She had a large -- aquiline nose - penetrating eyes , even in her 14.
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Sir Walter Scott. -- aquiline nose - penetrating eyes , even in her old age- bushy hair , that hung around her shoulders from beneath a gipsy bonnet of straw a short cloak of a peculiar fashion , and a long staff nearly as tall as ...
Sir Walter Scott. -- aquiline nose - penetrating eyes , even in her old age- bushy hair , that hung around her shoulders from beneath a gipsy bonnet of straw a short cloak of a peculiar fashion , and a long staff nearly as tall as ...
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... eyes upon it with a disconsolate sen- sation . " Why , my little fellow , " he said , “ this is a ruin , not a house ? " " Ah , but the lairds lived there langsyne- that's Ellangowan * Hatching time . - Auld Place ; there's a hantle ...
... eyes upon it with a disconsolate sen- sation . " Why , my little fellow , " he said , “ this is a ruin , not a house ? " " Ah , but the lairds lived there langsyne- that's Ellangowan * Hatching time . - Auld Place ; there's a hantle ...
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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