Guy Mannering; Or, The Astrologer |
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... respect and gratitude , and the stranger was accommodated with an apartment which commanded an ample view of the astral regions . The guest spent a part of the night in ascertaining the position of the heavenly bodies , and calculating ...
... respect and gratitude , and the stranger was accommodated with an apartment which commanded an ample view of the astral regions . The guest spent a part of the night in ascertaining the position of the heavenly bodies , and calculating ...
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... respect , in their depredations , the property of their benefactors . The end of all this was , an inquiry what money the farmer had about him ; and an urgent request , or command , that he would make her his purse - keeper , since the ...
... respect , in their depredations , the property of their benefactors . The end of all this was , an inquiry what money the farmer had about him ; and an urgent request , or command , that he would make her his purse - keeper , since the ...
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... respects wholly undeserving . She had , among other demerits , or merits , as the reader may choose to rank it , that of being a stanch Jacobite . She chanced to be at Carlisle upon a fair or market - day , soon after the year 1746 ...
... respects wholly undeserving . She had , among other demerits , or merits , as the reader may choose to rank it , that of being a stanch Jacobite . She chanced to be at Carlisle upon a fair or market - day , soon after the year 1746 ...
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... respecting the place from whence he came . While sufficient day - light remained to show the dress and appearance of a gentleman , these cross in- terrogatories were usually put in the form of a case supposed , as , " Ye ' ll hae been ...
... respecting the place from whence he came . While sufficient day - light remained to show the dress and appearance of a gentleman , these cross in- terrogatories were usually put in the form of a case supposed , as , " Ye ' ll hae been ...
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... respect , nor a sense of humiliation , are feelings easily combined with a familiar fondness towards those who inspire them . But the boyish frolics , the exulting high spirits , the unreflecting mirth of a sailor , when enjoying ...
... respect , nor a sense of humiliation , are feelings easily combined with a familiar fondness towards those who inspire them . But the boyish frolics , the exulting high spirits , the unreflecting mirth of a sailor , when enjoying ...
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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