Guy Mannering, Or, The AstrologerBernhard Tauchnitz, 1846 - 467 pages |
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... honoured with a letter from a gentleman deeply skilled in these mysteries , who kindly under- took to calculate the nativity of the writer of Guy Mannering , who might be supposed to be friendly to the divine art which he pro- fessed ...
... honoured with a letter from a gentleman deeply skilled in these mysteries , who kindly under- took to calculate the nativity of the writer of Guy Mannering , who might be supposed to be friendly to the divine art which he pro- fessed ...
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... honour will be come frae the house o ' Pouderloupat ? " But when the voice of the querist alone was distinguishable , the response usually was , " Where are ye coming frae at sic a time o ' night as the like o ' this ? " or , " Ye ' ll ...
... honour will be come frae the house o ' Pouderloupat ? " But when the voice of the querist alone was distinguishable , the response usually was , " Where are ye coming frae at sic a time o ' night as the like o ' this ? " or , " Ye ' ll ...
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... honour of knighthood conferred upon him by his most sacred majesty , and was sequestrated as a ma- lignant by the parliament , 1642 , and afterwards as a resolutioner , in the year 1648. " These two cross - grained epithets of ma ...
... honour of knighthood conferred upon him by his most sacred majesty , and was sequestrated as a ma- lignant by the parliament , 1642 , and afterwards as a resolutioner , in the year 1648. " These two cross - grained epithets of ma ...
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... honour , for such agricul- tural and commercial negotiations were very ill looked upon by his brother lairds , who minded nothing but cock - fighting , hunting , coursing , and horse - racing , with now and then the al- ternation of a ...
... honour , for such agricul- tural and commercial negotiations were very ill looked upon by his brother lairds , who minded nothing but cock - fighting , hunting , coursing , and horse - racing , with now and then the al- ternation of a ...
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... honour to sit up wi ' us , I am sure we shall not detain you very late . Luckie Howatson is very expeditious There was ance a lass that was in that way- - she did not live far from hereabouts - ye needna shake your head and groan ...
... honour to sit up wi ' us , I am sure we shall not detain you very late . Luckie Howatson is very expeditious There was ance a lass that was in that way- - she did not live far from hereabouts - ye needna shake your head and groan ...
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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