Guy Mannering, Volume 2Ticknor and Fields, 1857 |
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... better make sacrifice of an under- strapper or two , than incur the odium of having favoured such atrocious proceedings . But for some time all these exertions were in vain . The common people of the country either favoured or feared ...
... better make sacrifice of an under- strapper or two , than incur the odium of having favoured such atrocious proceedings . But for some time all these exertions were in vain . The common people of the country either favoured or feared ...
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... better place than Kippletringan , I hae gaen back to worthy Maister Mac - Grainer . And * Some of the strict dissenters decline taking an oath before a civil magistrate . so ye see , sir , I am no clear GUY MANNERING . 25.
... better place than Kippletringan , I hae gaen back to worthy Maister Mac - Grainer . And * Some of the strict dissenters decline taking an oath before a civil magistrate . so ye see , sir , I am no clear GUY MANNERING . 25.
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... better , or a lad that was mair douce and canny - I thought he had been some gentleman under trouble . But I gie him up , the villain ! —to shoot Charles * Tricks . Hazlewood — and before the young ladies , -poor innocent 26 WAVERLEY ...
... better , or a lad that was mair douce and canny - I thought he had been some gentleman under trouble . But I gie him up , the villain ! —to shoot Charles * Tricks . Hazlewood — and before the young ladies , -poor innocent 26 WAVERLEY ...
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... better , an it could be sealed up and left in Deacon Bearcliff's hands , it wad mak her mind easy - she was for naething but justice on a ' sides . " Mrs. Mac - Candlish's natural sagacity and acquired suspicion being inflexible ...
... better , an it could be sealed up and left in Deacon Bearcliff's hands , it wad mak her mind easy - she was for naething but justice on a ' sides . " Mrs. Mac - Candlish's natural sagacity and acquired suspicion being inflexible ...
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... better informed reader has received , through means of this investigation , an account of Brown's proceedings , between the moment when we left him upon his walk to Kippletringan , and the time when , stung by jealousy , he so rashly ...
... better informed reader has received , through means of this investigation , an account of Brown's proceedings , between the moment when we left him upon his walk to Kippletringan , and the time when , stung by jealousy , he so rashly ...
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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.