Guy Mannering, Or, The AstrologerBernhard Tauchnitz, 1846 - 467 pages |
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... fire . Under all these disadvantages , he obtained a competent knowledge of Greek and Latin , and some acquaintance with the sciences . In progress of time , Abel Sampson , probationer of divinity , was admitted to the privileges of a ...
... fire . Under all these disadvantages , he obtained a competent knowledge of Greek and Latin , and some acquaintance with the sciences . In progress of time , Abel Sampson , probationer of divinity , was admitted to the privileges of a ...
Page 29
... fire with some address . He attempted even to snuff the candles , but was unsuccessful , and relinquished that ambitious post of courtesy after having twice reduced the parlour to total darkness . So , his civilities , thereafter , were ...
... fire with some address . He attempted even to snuff the candles , but was unsuccessful , and relinquished that ambitious post of courtesy after having twice reduced the parlour to total darkness . So , his civilities , thereafter , were ...
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... Fire - raising , " answered the laconic Dominie . " Who , or what is she , in the name of wonder ? " 66 “ Harlot , thief , witch , and gipsy , " answered Sampson again . " O troth , Laird , " continued Meg , during this by - talk ...
... Fire - raising , " answered the laconic Dominie . " Who , or what is she , in the name of wonder ? " 66 “ Harlot , thief , witch , and gipsy , " answered Sampson again . " O troth , Laird , " continued Meg , during this by - talk ...
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... fire - wood . " On one occasion , when the child was ill , she lay all night below the window , chanting a rhyme which she believed sovereign as a febrifuge , and could neither be prevailed upon to enter the house , nor to leave the ...
... fire - wood . " On one occasion , when the child was ill , she lay all night below the window , chanting a rhyme which she believed sovereign as a febrifuge , and could neither be prevailed upon to enter the house , nor to leave the ...
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... fire in your ain parlour burn the blyther for that . Ye have riven the thack off seven cottar houses look if your ain roof - tree stand the faster . Ye may stable your stirks in the shealings at Derncleugh - see that the hare does not ...
... fire in your ain parlour burn the blyther for that . Ye have riven the thack off seven cottar houses look if your ain roof - tree stand the faster . Ye may stable your stirks in the shealings at Derncleugh - see that the hare does not ...
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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