Guy Mannering, Volume 2Ticknor and Fields, 1857 |
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... from one place to another , and seeing them properly carried into execution . Our force , with the strangers included , might amount to about twelve men . " At length the silence of this awful period of 8 WAVERLEY NOVELS .
... from one place to another , and seeing them properly carried into execution . Our force , with the strangers included , might amount to about twelve men . " At length the silence of this awful period of 8 WAVERLEY NOVELS .
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... length thirty horsemen and more rushed at once upon the lawn . You never saw such horrid wretches ! Notwith- standing the severity of the season , they were most of them stripped to their shirts and trowsers , with silk hand- kerchiefs ...
... length thirty horsemen and more rushed at once upon the lawn . You never saw such horrid wretches ! Notwith- standing the severity of the season , they were most of them stripped to their shirts and trowsers , with silk hand- kerchiefs ...
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... length we thought of retiring . 66 Why do I mention these trivial occurrences ? —not , Heaven knows , from the interest I can now attach to them — but because , like a drowning man who catches at a brittle twig , I seize every apology ...
... length we thought of retiring . 66 Why do I mention these trivial occurrences ? —not , Heaven knows , from the interest I can now attach to them — but because , like a drowning man who catches at a brittle twig , I seize every apology ...
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... length , this busy magistrate obtained information , that a man , having the dress and appearance of the person who had wounded Hazlewood , had lodged on the evening before the ren- contre at the Gordon - Arms in Kippletringan . Thither ...
... length , this busy magistrate obtained information , that a man , having the dress and appearance of the person who had wounded Hazlewood , had lodged on the evening before the ren- contre at the Gordon - Arms in Kippletringan . Thither ...
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... length he broke silence . " Soh , Captain , this is you ? —you have been a stranger on this coast for some years . " " Stranger ! " replied the other ; " strange enough , I think - for hold me der deyvil , if I been ever here before ...
... length he broke silence . " Soh , Captain , this is you ? —you have been a stranger on this coast for some years . " " Stranger ! " replied the other ; " strange enough , I think - for hold me der deyvil , if I been ever here before ...
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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 84 - Dark but not awful, dismal but yet mean, With anxious bustle moves the cumbrous scene ; Presents no objects tender or...
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.