Guy Mannering; Or, The AstrologerMaxwell, 1820 - 241 pages |
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... officer left the room . The clink of irons was immediately afterwards heard upon the stair , and in two or three minutes a man was introduced hand - cuffed and fettered . He was thick , brawny , and muscular , and although his shagged ...
... officer left the room . The clink of irons was immediately afterwards heard upon the stair , and in two or three minutes a man was introduced hand - cuffed and fettered . He was thick , brawny , and muscular , and although his shagged ...
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... officers , when they discovered the escape of their prisoner . Mac - Guffog appeared be- fore Glossin with a head perturbed with brandy and fear , and incurred a most severe reprimand for ne- glect of duty . The resentment of the ...
... officers , when they discovered the escape of their prisoner . Mac - Guffog appeared be- fore Glossin with a head perturbed with brandy and fear , and incurred a most severe reprimand for ne- glect of duty . The resentment of the ...
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... officers light upon them , he would run the scent up like a blood - hound , and surprise us . I must get down upon the sea - beach , and contrive to creep along beneath the rocks . ' And accordingly , he descended from the cliffs with ...
... officers light upon them , he would run the scent up like a blood - hound , and surprise us . I must get down upon the sea - beach , and contrive to creep along beneath the rocks . ' And accordingly , he descended from the cliffs with ...
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... officer who takes care of these public endowments , and is thence called the Master of Mortifications . One would almost presume , that the term had its origin in the effect which such settlements usually produce upon the kinsmen of ...
... officer who takes care of these public endowments , and is thence called the Master of Mortifications . One would almost presume , that the term had its origin in the effect which such settlements usually produce upon the kinsmen of ...
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... officer man , and they do what they like wi ' the like o ' us . ' ' And his daughter , ' said Brown , with a throb- bing heart , is going to be married into a great family too , as I have heard ? ' What , into the Hazlewood's ? na , na ...
... officer man , and they do what they like wi ' the like o ' us . ' ' And his daughter , ' said Brown , with a throb- bing heart , is going to be married into a great family too , as I have heard ? ' What , into the Hazlewood's ? na , na ...
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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
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.