Guy Mannering, Volume 2Ticknor and Fields, 1857 |
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... Hazlewood and my father were proposing to walk to a little lake about three miles ' distance , for the purpose of shooting wild ducks , and while Lucy and I were busied with arranging our plan of work and study for the day , we were ...
... Hazlewood and my father were proposing to walk to a little lake about three miles ' distance , for the purpose of shooting wild ducks , and while Lucy and I were busied with arranging our plan of work and study for the day , we were ...
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... Hazlewood hurried to the front door to demand who they were , and what was their business . They were revenue officers , they stated , who had seized these horses , loaded with contraband arti- cles , at a place about three miles off ...
... Hazlewood hurried to the front door to demand who they were , and what was their business . They were revenue officers , they stated , who had seized these horses , loaded with contraband arti- cles , at a place about three miles off ...
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... Hazlewood made us very merry with the Dominie's ignorant but zealous valour . " When my father had got everything into proper order for defence , and his people stationed at the windows with their fire - arms , he wanted to order us out ...
... Hazlewood made us very merry with the Dominie's ignorant but zealous valour . " When my father had got everything into proper order for defence , and his people stationed at the windows with their fire - arms , he wanted to order us out ...
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... Hazlewood and me- Hazlewood , mark the ambassador ! ' He himself aimed at the man on the grey horse , who fell on receiving his shot . Hazlewood was equally successful . He shot the spokesman , who had dismounted , and was advancing ...
... Hazlewood and me- Hazlewood , mark the ambassador ! ' He himself aimed at the man on the grey horse , who fell on receiving his shot . Hazlewood was equally successful . He shot the spokesman , who had dismounted , and was advancing ...
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... Hazlewood's courage and coolness to the skies . Lucy and I came in for a share of his applause , because we had stood fire with firmness , and had not dis- turbed him with screams or expostulations . As for the Dominie , my father took ...
... Hazlewood's courage and coolness to the skies . Lucy and I came in for a share of his applause , because we had stood fire with firmness , and had not dis- turbed him with screams or expostulations . As for the Dominie , my father took ...
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Allonby answered Bertram appearance arms auld Aweel Baronet better called canna Captain carriage Charles Hazlewood Colonel Mannering counsellor Dandie dear Derncleugh deyvil Dinmont dinna Dirk Hatteraick Dominie door Ellangowan eneugh eyes father favour feelings fellow frae gentleman gipsy Glossin GUY MANNERING hand Harry Bertram Hazle Hazlewood-House hear heard honest honour horse interest Jabos Jock Julia justice Kippletringan lady lawyer Liddesdale look Lucy Bertram Mac-Candlish Mac-Guffog Mac-Morlan mair Mannering's maun Merrilies Middleburgh mind Miss Bertram Miss Mannering morning muckle murder naething never night occasion ower person Pleydell Portanferry prisoner recollection replied respect Sampson Scotland Singleside Sir Robert Hazlewood smugglers speak stood stranger suppose tell teraick there's thought tion took turned Vanbeest Brown voice weel window woman wood Woodbourne ye'll young Hazlewood younker
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Page 91 - Vandyke, and surrounded with books, the best editions of the best authors, and in particular, an admirable collection of classics. ' These,' said Pleydell, ' are my tools of trade. 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...
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Page 215 - Wi' coulters, and wi' forehammers, We garr'd the bars bang merrilie, Until we came to the inner prison, Where Willie o' Kinmont he did lie. And when we cam to the lower prison, Where Willie o...
Page 200 - Bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word, which madness Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace, Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass, but my madness speaks.