Guy Mannering; Or, The AstrologerMaxwell, 1820 - 241 pages |
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Page 42
... counsellors who loved the old road , either because it was such , or because they had got too well used to it to travel any other . Among these praisers of the past time , who with ostentatious obstinacy affected the manners of a for ...
... counsellors who loved the old road , either because it was such , or because they had got too well used to it to travel any other . Among these praisers of the past time , who with ostentatious obstinacy affected the manners of a for ...
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... counsellor himself , the principal figure therein , struck his two clients with astonishment . Mr. Pleydell was a lively sharp - looking gentle- man , with a professional shrewdness in his eye , and generally speaking , a professional ...
... counsellor himself , the principal figure therein , struck his two clients with astonishment . Mr. Pleydell was a lively sharp - looking gentle- man , with a professional shrewdness in his eye , and generally speaking , a professional ...
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... counsellor ra- ther surprised . ' Ou , we have nae connexion at a ' wi ' the Ber- trams - they were grand folk by the like o ' us . But Jean Liltup that was auld Singleside's house- keeper , and the mother of these twa young leddies E 2 ...
... counsellor ra- ther surprised . ' Ou , we have nae connexion at a ' wi ' the Ber- trams - they were grand folk by the like o ' us . But Jean Liltup that was auld Singleside's house- keeper , and the mother of these twa young leddies E 2 ...
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... counsellor engaged , at the candour and sound sense which he had in a moment summoned up to meet the exigencies of his profession , and at the tone of feeling which he displayed when he spoke of the friendless orphan . In the morning ...
... counsellor engaged , at the candour and sound sense which he had in a moment summoned up to meet the exigencies of his profession , and at the tone of feeling which he displayed when he spoke of the friendless orphan . In the morning ...
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... counsellor , ' have a moment's patience , and we shall do very well . ' The colleague of Dr. R. — ascended the pulpit . His external appearance was not prepossessing . A remarkably fair complexion was strangely contrast- ed with a black ...
... counsellor , ' have a moment's patience , and we shall do very well . ' The colleague of Dr. R. — ascended the pulpit . His external appearance was not prepossessing . A remarkably fair complexion was strangely contrast- ed with a black ...
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Allonby answered appearance auld Aweel better called captain carriage castle Charles Hazlewood Colonel Mannering counsellor dear Derncleugh deyvil Dinmont dinna Dirk Hatteraick Dominie door Ellan Ellangowan eneugh eyes father favour feelings fellow frae gentleman gipsy give Glossin gowan Guy Mannering hand Hazle Hazlewood-House head hear heard heart honest honour horse Julia justice justice of peace Kippletringan lady land lawyer Liddesdale light look Lucy Bertram Mac-Guffog Mac-Morlan mair Mannering's maun Merrilies mind Miss Bertram Miss Mannering morning muckle murder never night occasion ower person Pleydell Portanferry prisoner recollection ruin Sampson Scotland Singleside Sir Robert Hazlewood smugglers speak stood stranger strong tell there's thing thought tone tram turned Vanbeest Brown voice Warroch weel window wish woman wood Woodbourne ye'll young Hazlewood younker zlewood
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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.