Guy Mannering; Or, The AstrologerMaxwell, 1820 - 241 pages |
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... Captain - this is you ? you have been a stranger on this coast for some years . ' · Stranger ? ' replied the other , ' strange enough , I think - for hold me der deyvil , if I been ever here before . ' ' That won't pass , Mr. Captain ...
... Captain - this is you ? you have been a stranger on this coast for some years . ' · Stranger ? ' replied the other , ' strange enough , I think - for hold me der deyvil , if I been ever here before . ' ' That won't pass , Mr. Captain ...
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... man regards his own safety that speaks so to me ! ' ' What ? unarmed , and in irons ! well said , Cap- tain ! But , Captain , bullying won't do - you'll hard- ly get out of this country without accounting for a GUY MANNERING .
... man regards his own safety that speaks so to me ! ' ' What ? unarmed , and in irons ! well said , Cap- tain ! But , Captain , bullying won't do - you'll hard- ly get out of this country without accounting for a GUY MANNERING .
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... Captain Hatteraick , that I really forget how I was recompensed for my trou- ble . ' ' Your trouble ? -your silence you mean . ' ' It was an affair in the course of business - and I have retired from business for some time . ' ' Ay ...
... Captain Hatteraick , that I really forget how I was recompensed for my trou- ble . ' ' Your trouble ? -your silence you mean . ' ' It was an affair in the course of business - and I have retired from business for some time . ' ' Ay ...
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... Captain Janson , as he calls himself , Mac - Guffog , and it's now too late to bundle him off to the county jail . Is there not a strong room up yonder in the old castle ? ' Aye is there , sir ; my uncle , the constable , ance kept a ...
... Captain Janson , as he calls himself , Mac - Guffog , and it's now too late to bundle him off to the county jail . Is there not a strong room up yonder in the old castle ? ' Aye is there , sir ; my uncle , the constable , ance kept a ...
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... Captain ! ' cried Glossin , endeavouring to catch the tone of revelry --- ' Gin by pail fulls , wine in rivers , Dash the window - glass to shivers ! For three wild lads were we brave boys , And three wild lads were we ; Thou on the ...
... Captain ! ' cried Glossin , endeavouring to catch the tone of revelry --- ' Gin by pail fulls , wine in rivers , Dash the window - glass to shivers ! For three wild lads were we brave boys , And three wild lads were we ; Thou on the ...
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Popular passages
Page 135 - A prison is a house of care. A place where none can thrive, A touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for one alive. Sometimes a place of right. Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves, And honest men among.
Page 169 - Ecstasy! My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music. It is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word, which madness Would gambol from.
Page 46 - This game was played in several different ways. Most frequently the dice were thrown by the company, and those upon whom the lot fell were obliged to assume and maintain, for a time, a certain fictitious character, or to repeat a certain number of fescenniue verses in a particular order.
Page 54 - Dark but not awful, dismal but yet mean, With anxious bustle moves the cumbrous scene; Presents no objects tender or profound...
Page 61 - A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason ; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.