Guy Mannering, Or, The AstrologerBernhard Tauchnitz, 1846 - 467 pages |
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Page 17
... round upon the dreary region , and seeing nothing but bleak fields , and naked trees , hills obscured by fogs , and flats covered with inundations , he did for some time suffer melancholy to prevail upon him , and wished himself again ...
... round upon the dreary region , and seeing nothing but bleak fields , and naked trees , hills obscured by fogs , and flats covered with inundations , he did for some time suffer melancholy to prevail upon him , and wished himself again ...
Page 22
... he has finished a long lecture to Mannering , upon the propriety and comfort of wrapping his stirrup - irons round with a wisp of straw when he had occasion to ride in a chill evening . ― Godfrey Bertram , of Ellangowan , succeeded to a 22.
... he has finished a long lecture to Mannering , upon the propriety and comfort of wrapping his stirrup - irons round with a wisp of straw when he had occasion to ride in a chill evening . ― Godfrey Bertram , of Ellangowan , succeeded to a 22.
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... round window , like the single eye of a Cyclops , two windows on each side , and a door in the middle , leading to a parlour and withdrawing room , full of all manner of cross lights . This was the New Place of Ellangowan , in which we ...
... round window , like the single eye of a Cyclops , two windows on each side , and a door in the middle , leading to a parlour and withdrawing room , full of all manner of cross lights . This was the New Place of Ellangowan , in which we ...
Page 40
... round towers , projecting , deeply and darkly , at the extreme angles of a curtain , or flat wall , which united them , and thus protecting the main entrance , that opened through a lofty arch in the centre of the curtain into the inner ...
... round towers , projecting , deeply and darkly , at the extreme angles of a curtain , or flat wall , which united them , and thus protecting the main entrance , that opened through a lofty arch in the centre of the curtain into the inner ...
Page 42
... round the ruins , he heard from the interior of an apartment on the left hand the voice of the gipsy he had seen on the preceding evening . He soon found an aperture , through which he could observe her without being himself visible ...
... round the ruins , he heard from the interior of an apartment on the left hand the voice of the gipsy he had seen on the preceding evening . He soon found an aperture , through which he could observe her without being himself visible ...
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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