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Page 18
As the light grew faint and more faint , and the morass appeared blacker and
blacker , our traveller questioned more closely each chance passenger on his
distance from the village of Kippletringan , where he proposed to quarter for the
night .
As the light grew faint and more faint , and the morass appeared blacker and
blacker , our traveller questioned more closely each chance passenger on his
distance from the village of Kippletringan , where he proposed to quarter for the
night .
Page 181
Now the light diminished to a distant star that seemed to twinkle on the waters ,
like those which , according to the legends of the country , the water - kelpy sends
for the purpose of indicating the watery grave of his victims . Then it advanced ...
Now the light diminished to a distant star that seemed to twinkle on the waters ,
like those which , according to the legends of the country , the water - kelpy sends
for the purpose of indicating the watery grave of his victims . Then it advanced ...
Page 182
Walter Scott. the light it affords to strike their prey . As he observed one man
struggling with a very weighty salmon which he had speared , but was unable
completely to raise from the water , Brown advanced close to the bank to see the
issue ...
Walter Scott. the light it affords to strike their prey . As he observed one man
struggling with a very weighty salmon which he had speared , but was unable
completely to raise from the water , Brown advanced close to the bank to see the
issue ...
Page 189
Our traveller groped along the side of the enclosure from which the light
glimmered , in order to find some mode of approaching in that direction , and after
proceeding for some space , at length found a stile in the hedge , and a pathway
...
Our traveller groped along the side of the enclosure from which the light
glimmered , in order to find some mode of approaching in that direction , and after
proceeding for some space , at length found a stile in the hedge , and a pathway
...
Page 425
The branches were laid so loosely above each other , that , looking through them
towards the light of the fire - grate , they could easily discover what passed in its
vicinity , although a much stronger degree of illumination than it afforded , would
...
The branches were laid so loosely above each other , that , looking through them
towards the light of the fire - grate , they could easily discover what passed in its
vicinity , although a much stronger degree of illumination than it afforded , would
...
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| Title | Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer Volume 99 of Collection of British and American authors Volume 99 of Collection of British authors Volume 99 of Tauchnitz edition |
| Author | Walter Scott |
| Publisher | Bernhard Tauhnitz, 1846 |
| Original from | Austrian National Library |
| Digitized | 27 Nov 2017 |
| Length | 467 pages |
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