Guy Mannering; Or, The AstrologerMaxwell, 1820 - 241 pages |
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... things to rights in my study , and wheel the great leather chair up to the writing - table - set a stool for Mr. Scrow . Scrow , ( to the clerk , as he entered the presence chamber , ) hand down Sir George Mackenzie on Crimes ; open it ...
... things to rights in my study , and wheel the great leather chair up to the writing - table - set a stool for Mr. Scrow . Scrow , ( to the clerk , as he entered the presence chamber , ) hand down Sir George Mackenzie on Crimes ; open it ...
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... thing , gliding from the neighbouring place of concealment , he had mingled with eager- ness , yet with caution , among the terrified group who surrounded the corpse , dreading lest any one should ask from whence he came . He remembered ...
... thing , gliding from the neighbouring place of concealment , he had mingled with eager- ness , yet with caution , among the terrified group who surrounded the corpse , dreading lest any one should ask from whence he came . He remembered ...
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... thing happened . Tousend deyvils , man ! do ye think that he could rise out of the earth to shoot another man ? ' A light here began to break upon Glossin's con- fusion of ideas . Did you not say that the younker as you call him , goes ...
... thing happened . Tousend deyvils , man ! do ye think that he could rise out of the earth to shoot another man ? ' A light here began to break upon Glossin's con- fusion of ideas . Did you not say that the younker as you call him , goes ...
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... thing goes wrong with Dirk Hatteraick's project , I may have prepossessions in my favour at least . ' Besides , to do Glossin justice , bad as he was , he might feel some desire to compensate to Miss Bertram in a small degree , and in a ...
... thing goes wrong with Dirk Hatteraick's project , I may have prepossessions in my favour at least . ' Besides , to do Glossin justice , bad as he was , he might feel some desire to compensate to Miss Bertram in a small degree , and in a ...
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... Bertram should suppose -that any prejudice , in short - or idea that any thing on my part ' ' Sir , where no accusation is made , excuses or explanations are unnecessary . Have you any objec- tion to 34 GUY MANNERING .
... Bertram should suppose -that any prejudice , in short - or idea that any thing on my part ' ' Sir , where no accusation is made , excuses or explanations are unnecessary . Have you any objec- tion to 34 GUY MANNERING .
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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.