Guy Mannering, Or, The AstrologerBernhard Tauchnitz, 1846 - 467 pages |
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... person , according to old John Mac Kinlay's account , while travelling in the wilder parts of Galloway , was benighted . With difficulty he found his way to a country - seat , where , with the hospitality of the time and country , he ...
... person , according to old John Mac Kinlay's account , while travelling in the wilder parts of Galloway , was benighted . With difficulty he found his way to a country - seat , where , with the hospitality of the time and country , he ...
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... person of this description ought , from his knowledge of the thousand ways in which human eyes could be deceived , to have been less than others subject to the fantasies of superstition . Perhaps the habitual use of those abstruse ...
... person of this description ought , from his knowledge of the thousand ways in which human eyes could be deceived , to have been less than others subject to the fantasies of superstition . Perhaps the habitual use of those abstruse ...
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... by the name of Jean Gordon , an inhabitant of the village of Kirk Yetholm , in the Cheviot hills , adjoining to the English Border . The author gave the public some account of this re- markable person , in one of the early Numbers of 10.
... by the name of Jean Gordon , an inhabitant of the village of Kirk Yetholm , in the Cheviot hills , adjoining to the English Border . The author gave the public some account of this re- markable person , in one of the early Numbers of 10.
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... person . near . ' " Jean set up a loud shout of joyful recognition - " Eh , Sirs ! the winsome Gudeman of Lochside ! Light down , light down ; for ye maunna gang farther the night , and a friend's house sae The farmer was obliged to ...
... person . near . ' " Jean set up a loud shout of joyful recognition - " Eh , Sirs ! the winsome Gudeman of Lochside ! Light down , light down ; for ye maunna gang farther the night , and a friend's house sae The farmer was obliged to ...
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... person . " " - ( Blackwood's Magazine , vol . i . p . 56. ) How far Blackwood's ingenious correspondent was right , how far mistaken in his conjecture , the reader has been informed . To pass to a character of a very different ...
... person . " " - ( Blackwood's Magazine , vol . i . p . 56. ) How far Blackwood's ingenious correspondent was right , how far mistaken in his conjecture , the reader has been informed . To pass to a character of a very different ...
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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