Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer, Volume 1James Ballantyne and Company For Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London; and Archibald Constable and Company Edinburgh., 1815 - Astrologers - 358 pages |
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... circumstance to make his mind easy . Many of the roads in that country lay along the sea - beach , and were liable to be flooded by the tides , which rise with great height , and advance with extreme rapidity . Others were in- tersected ...
... circumstance to make his mind easy . Many of the roads in that country lay along the sea - beach , and were liable to be flooded by the tides , which rise with great height , and advance with extreme rapidity . Others were in- tersected ...
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... circumstances to the servant ; and the gentleman of the house , who heard his tale from the parlour , step- ped forward , and welcomed the stranger hospitably to Ellengowan . The boy , made happy with half - a - crown , was dismissed to ...
... circumstances to the servant ; and the gentleman of the house , who heard his tale from the parlour , step- ped forward , and welcomed the stranger hospitably to Ellengowan . The boy , made happy with half - a - crown , was dismissed to ...
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... circumstance arrested Ellangowan's progress upon the high road to ruin . This was his marriage with a lady who had a portion of about four thousand pounds . Nobody in the neighbourhood could con- ceive why she married him , and endowed ...
... circumstance arrested Ellangowan's progress upon the high road to ruin . This was his marriage with a lady who had a portion of about four thousand pounds . Nobody in the neighbourhood could con- ceive why she married him , and endowed ...
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... Circumstances of the landlady were pleaded to Mannering , first , as an apology for her not appearing to welcome her guest , and for those deficiencies in his entertain- ment which her attention might have sup- plied , and then as an ...
... Circumstances of the landlady were pleaded to Mannering , first , as an apology for her not appearing to welcome her guest , and for those deficiencies in his entertain- ment which her attention might have sup- plied , and then as an ...
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... circumstances hereafter to be noticed , had been familiar to him in early youth . Signs and planets , in aspects sextile , quartile , trine , conjoined or opposite ; houses of heaven , with their cusps , hours , and minutes ; Almuten ...
... circumstances hereafter to be noticed , had been familiar to him in early youth . Signs and planets , in aspects sextile , quartile , trine , conjoined or opposite ; houses of heaven , with their cusps , hours , and minutes ; Almuten ...
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ancient answered appearance Arthur Mervyn ASTROLOGER auld bairn Brown called castle Charles Hazlewood circumstances Colonel Mannering commanded daughter Deacon dear Derncleugh Dirk Hatteraick Dominie Sampson door Dunbog Ellan eyes father fear feelings flageolet frae Frank Kennedy gentleman Glossin Godfrey Bertram GUY MANNERING gypsies Harry Bertram Hazlewood head heard honour hope horse hour ISAAC FOOT Julia Kippletringan Laird of Ellangowan land landlady look lugger Mac-Candlish Mac-Morlan Mannering's Matilda maun ment Merrilies Mervyn Miss Bertram Miss Lucy Miss Mannering Morlan nering never night occasion ower parlour person Point of Warroch poor Precentor puir racter reader ride round ruins scene Scotland seemed servant sloop sloop of war stranger supposed sure tell ther there's thing thought tion told turned vessel weel wish wood Woodbourne ye'll young lady young Laird