Guy Mannering, Or, The AstrologerBernhard Tauchnitz, 1846 - 467 pages |
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... better illus- trated than by reciting the simple narrative on which Guy Manner- ing was originally founded ; but to which , in the progress of the work , the production ceased to bear any , even the most distant resemblance . The tale ...
... better illus- trated than by reciting the simple narrative on which Guy Manner- ing was originally founded ; but to which , in the progress of the work , the production ceased to bear any , even the most distant resemblance . The tale ...
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... better amused perhaps than our readers , and to this Lewis Bertram retreated , full of projects for re - establishing the pros- perity of his family . He took some land into his own hand , rented some from neighbouring proprietors ...
... better amused perhaps than our readers , and to this Lewis Bertram retreated , full of projects for re - establishing the pros- perity of his family . He took some land into his own hand , rented some from neighbouring proprietors ...
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... watch , and tell me the very minute o ' the hour the wean's born , and I'll spae its fortune . " - " Ay , but , Meg , we shall not want your assistance , for here's a student from Oxford that kens much better than you 32.
... watch , and tell me the very minute o ' the hour the wean's born , and I'll spae its fortune . " - " Ay , but , Meg , we shall not want your assistance , for here's a student from Oxford that kens much better than you 32.
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Walter Scott. a student from Oxford that kens much better than you how to spae its fortune - he does it by the stars . " “ Certainly , Sir , ” said Mannering , entering into the simple humour of his landlord , " I will calculate his ...
Walter Scott. a student from Oxford that kens much better than you how to spae its fortune - he does it by the stars . " “ Certainly , Sir , ” said Mannering , entering into the simple humour of his landlord , " I will calculate his ...
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... better judgments . Whether the coincidence which I have mentioned was really one of those singular chances , which sometimes happen against all ordinary calculations ; or whether Mannering , bewildered amid the arithmetical labyrinth ...
... better judgments . Whether the coincidence which I have mentioned was really one of those singular chances , which sometimes happen against all ordinary calculations ; or whether Mannering , bewildered amid the arithmetical labyrinth ...
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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 suppose tell there's thing thought tion turned Vanbeest Brown voice Warroch weel window woman wood Woodbourne young Hazlewood young lady younker