Guy Mannering, Or, The AstrologerBernhard Tauchnitz, 1846 - 467 pages |
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... seemed involuntary , broken sleep , moon- light wanderings , and a melancholy for which he could assign no reason , seemed to threaten at once his bodily health , and the stability of his mind . The Astrologer was consulted by letter ...
... seemed involuntary , broken sleep , moon- light wanderings , and a melancholy for which he could assign no reason , seemed to threaten at once his bodily health , and the stability of his mind . The Astrologer was consulted by letter ...
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... seemed as if the gloomiest and most hideous of mental maladies was taking the form of religious despair . Still the youth was gentle , courteous , affectionate , and submissive to his father's will , and resisted with all his power the ...
... seemed as if the gloomiest and most hideous of mental maladies was taking the form of religious despair . Still the youth was gentle , courteous , affectionate , and submissive to his father's will , and resisted with all his power the ...
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... seemed determined to drive him to despair . As he combated these hor- rible recollections with distracted feelings , but with a resolved mind , he became aware that his arguments were answered by the sophistry of another , and that the ...
... seemed determined to drive him to despair . As he combated these hor- rible recollections with distracted feelings , but with a resolved mind , he became aware that his arguments were answered by the sophistry of another , and that the ...
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... seemed to pro- ceed at a somewhat livelier pace than before , affording thereby a hope that he knew he was drawing near to his quarters for the evening . This hope , however , was not speedily accomplished , and Mannering , whose ...
... seemed to pro- ceed at a somewhat livelier pace than before , affording thereby a hope that he knew he was drawing near to his quarters for the evening . This hope , however , was not speedily accomplished , and Mannering , whose ...
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... seemed too deep for ' a woman . The words , as far as Mannering could distinguish them , seemed to run thus : 66 Canny moment , lucky fit ; Is the lady lighter yet ? Be it lad , or be it lass , Sign wi ' cross , ond sain wi ' mass ...
... seemed too deep for ' a woman . The words , as far as Mannering could distinguish them , seemed to run thus : 66 Canny moment , lucky fit ; Is the lady lighter yet ? Be it lad , or be it lass , Sign wi ' cross , ond sain wi ' mass ...
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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