Guy Mannering; Or, The Astrologer |
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... means obtain any exact knowledge , whether the subject of the scheme would be dead or alive . Anxious concerning so remarkable a circumstance , he gave the scheme to a brother Astrologer , who was also baffled in the same manner . At ...
... means obtain any exact knowledge , whether the subject of the scheme would be dead or alive . Anxious concerning so remarkable a circumstance , he gave the scheme to a brother Astrologer , who was also baffled in the same manner . At ...
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... means of more organs than one . His guide then dragged the weary hack along a broken and stony cart - track , next over a ploughed field , then broke down a slap , as he called it , in a dry - stone fence , and lugged the unresisting ...
... means of more organs than one . His guide then dragged the weary hack along a broken and stony cart - track , next over a ploughed field , then broke down a slap , as he called it , in a dry - stone fence , and lugged the unresisting ...
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... means of learning . Meantime , his tall , ungainly figure , his taciturn and grave manners , and some grotesque habits of swinging his limbs , and screwing his visage , while reciting his task , made poor Sampson the ridicule of all his ...
... means of learning . Meantime , his tall , ungainly figure , his taciturn and grave manners , and some grotesque habits of swinging his limbs , and screwing his visage , while reciting his task , made poor Sampson the ridicule of all his ...
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... means of observing closely how 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 ...
... means of observing closely how 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 ...
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... mean ? " said Mannering to Sampson , in an under tone . " Fire - raising , " answered the laconic Dominie . " Who , or what is she , in the name of wonder ? " " Harlot , thief , witch , and gipsy , " answered Sampson again . “ O troth ...
... mean ? " said Mannering to Sampson , in an under tone . " Fire - raising , " answered the laconic Dominie . " Who , or what is she , in the name of wonder ? " " Harlot , thief , witch , and gipsy , " answered Sampson again . “ O troth ...
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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