Guy Mannering, Volume 1Ticknor and Fields, 1857 - Scotland |
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... situation gave the author , in his youth , an opportunity of seeing a little , and hearing a great deal , about that degraded class who are called gipsies ; who are in most cases a mixed race , between the ancient Egyptians who arrived ...
... situation gave the author , in his youth , an opportunity of seeing a little , and hearing a great deal , about that degraded class who are called gipsies ; who are in most cases a mixed race , between the ancient Egyptians who arrived ...
Page 52
... situation like that of Mannering . As the light grew faint and more faint , and the morass appeared blacker and blacker , our traveller questioned more closely each chance passenger on his distance from the village of Kippletringan ...
... situation like that of Mannering . As the light grew faint and more faint , and the morass appeared blacker and blacker , our traveller questioned more closely each chance passenger on his distance from the village of Kippletringan ...
Page 84
... situation of a village at the place where the stream had its junction with the ocean . The vales seemed well cultivated , the little en- closures into which they were divided skirting the bottom of the hills , and sometimes carrying ...
... situation of a village at the place where the stream had its junction with the ocean . The vales seemed well cultivated , the little en- closures into which they were divided skirting the bottom of the hills , and sometimes carrying ...
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... situation , conveyed the exact impression of an ancient sibyl . She sate upon a broken corner - stone in the angle of a paved apartment , part of which she had swept clean to afford a smooth space for the evolutions of her spindle . A ...
... situation , conveyed the exact impression of an ancient sibyl . She sate upon a broken corner - stone in the angle of a paved apartment , part of which she had swept clean to afford a smooth space for the evolutions of her spindle . A ...
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... situation , which , an hour before , he had thought worthy of so much envy . Here was a country gentleman , whose most estimable quality seemed his fer- fect good nature , secretly fretting himself and murmuring against others , for ...
... situation , which , an hour before , he had thought worthy of so much envy . Here was a country gentleman , whose most estimable quality seemed his fer- fect good nature , secretly fretting himself and murmuring against others , for ...
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Annesley answered appearance Astrologer auld bairn better Bewcastle Brown called cant language castle character Charles Hazlewood Charlies-hope child circumstances Colonel Mannering Dandie daughter dear Dinmont Dirk Hatteraick Dominie Sampson door e'en Ellangowan farmer father fear feelings flageolet fortune frae Frank Kennedy Galloway gentleman gipsy Glossin gude gudewife guest Guy Mannering hame hand Hazlewood head heard heart honour hope horse hospitality Jean Jean Gordon Julia Kippletringan Laird land landlady light look Lord Lucy Bertram lugger Mac-Candlish Mac-Morlan mair Mannering's Matilda maun Merrilies Mervyn mind Miss Bertram Miss Mannering morning muckle never night observed occasion ower parlour person poor portmanteau postilion precentor reader road round ruins scene Scotland seemed story stranger supposed sure tell there's thought tion turned Warroch weel Willie Marshal woman wood Woodbourne young lady