Guy Mannering; Or, The Astrologer |
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... turning on the young stranger , as she departed , a look of inexpressible anxiety and interest . The old man then conducted the youth to his study , and con- versed with him upon the most important points of religion , to satisfy ...
... turning on the young stranger , as she departed , a look of inexpressible anxiety and interest . The old man then conducted the youth to his study , and con- versed with him upon the most important points of religion , to satisfy ...
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... turned out of doors the Rev. Aaron Macbriar , his mother's chaplain , ( it is said they quarrelled about the good graces of a milk - maid , ) drank himself daily drunk with brimming healths to the king , council , and bishops ; held ...
... turned out of doors the Rev. Aaron Macbriar , his mother's chaplain , ( it is said they quarrelled about the good graces of a milk - maid , ) drank himself daily drunk with brimming healths to the king , council , and bishops ; held ...
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... turning their cattle into his parks , stealing his wood , shooting his game , and so forth , " for the laird , honest man , he ' ll never find it — he never minds what a puir body does . " Pedlars , gipsies , tinkers , vagrants of all ...
... turning their cattle into his parks , stealing his wood , shooting his game , and so forth , " for the laird , honest man , he ' ll never find it — he never minds what a puir body does . " Pedlars , gipsies , tinkers , vagrants of all ...
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... turned a gaunt and ghastly stare upon the youthful astrologer , and seemed to doubt if he had rightly understood his answer to his patron . " I am afraid , Sir , " said Mannering turning towards him , " you may be one of those unhappy ...
... turned a gaunt and ghastly stare upon the youthful astrologer , and seemed to doubt if he had rightly understood his answer to his patron . " I am afraid , Sir , " said Mannering turning towards him , " you may be one of those unhappy ...
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... turned his face alter- nately from the one spokesman to the other , and began , from the gravity with which Mannering plied his adversary , and the learn- ing which he displayed in the controversy , to give him credit for being half ...
... turned his face alter- nately from the one spokesman to the other , and began , from the gravity with which Mannering plied his adversary , and the learn- ing which he displayed in the controversy , to give him credit for being half ...
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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