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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... hand path , and seemed to proceed at a somewhat livelier pace than formerly , affording thereby a hope that he knew he was drawing near to his . quarters for the evening . This hope was not speedily accomplished , and Manner- ing ...
... hand path , and seemed to proceed at a somewhat livelier pace than formerly , affording thereby a hope that he knew he was drawing near to his . quarters for the evening . This hope was not speedily accomplished , and Manner- ing ...
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... hand , rented some from neighbouring pro- prietors , bought and sold Highland cattle and Cheviot sheep , rode to fairs and trysts , fought hard bargains , and held necessity at the staff's end as well as he might . But what he gained in ...
... hand , rented some from neighbouring pro- prietors , bought and sold Highland cattle and Cheviot sheep , rode to fairs and trysts , fought hard bargains , and held necessity at the staff's end as well as he might . But what he gained in ...
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... hand , and added something to his pittance by copying accounts and writing letters for Ellangowan . By degrees , the Laird , who was much estranged from gene- ral society , became partial to that of Do- minie Sampson . Conversation , it ...
... hand , and added something to his pittance by copying accounts and writing letters for Ellangowan . By degrees , the Laird , who was much estranged from gene- ral society , became partial to that of Do- minie Sampson . Conversation , it ...
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... moment the door opened , and Meg Merrilies entered . Her appearance made Mannering start . She was full six feet high , wore a man's great - coat over the rest of her dress , had in her hand a goodly sloe - thorn cudgel , 36 GUY MANNERING .
... moment the door opened , and Meg Merrilies entered . Her appearance made Mannering start . She was full six feet high , wore a man's great - coat over the rest of her dress , had in her hand a goodly sloe - thorn cudgel , 36 GUY MANNERING .
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Walter Scott. in her hand a goodly sloe - thorn cudgel , and in all points of equipment , except her petticoats , seemed rather masculine than feminine . Her dark elf - locks shot out like the snakes of the gorgon , between an old ...
Walter Scott. in her hand a goodly sloe - thorn cudgel , and in all points of equipment , except her petticoats , seemed rather masculine than feminine . Her dark elf - locks shot out like the snakes of the gorgon , between an old ...
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