Guy Mannering, Volume 2Ticknor and Fields, 1857 |
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... light to his neighbours , and perhaps raise him to the emi- nence sometimes attained by a shrewd , worldly , bustling man of business , when , settled among a generation of country gentlemen , he becomes , in Burns's language , The ...
... light to his neighbours , and perhaps raise him to the emi- nence sometimes attained by a shrewd , worldly , bustling man of business , when , settled among a generation of country gentlemen , he becomes , in Burns's language , The ...
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... light - brown hair unpow- dered , blue eyes , and a straight nose , travelled on foot , had no servant or baggage - you surely can remember having seen such a traveller ? 66 وو Indeed , sir , " answered Mrs. Mac - Candlish , bent on ...
... light - brown hair unpow- dered , blue eyes , and a straight nose , travelled on foot , had no servant or baggage - you surely can remember having seen such a traveller ? 66 وو Indeed , sir , " answered Mrs. Mac - Candlish , bent on ...
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... light upon the criminal's escape as she had formerly been desirous of withholding it , for the miscellaneous contents of the purse argued strongly to her mind that all was not right , -Mrs . Mac - Candlish , I say , now gave Glossin to ...
... light upon the criminal's escape as she had formerly been desirous of withholding it , for the miscellaneous contents of the purse argued strongly to her mind that all was not right , -Mrs . Mac - Candlish , I say , now gave Glossin to ...
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... light upon the story , so far as he understood its purport ; but the 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 ...
... light upon the story , so far as he understood its purport ; but the 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 ...
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... light a fire for yourselves there , and I'll send you plenty of stuff to make you comfortable . But be sure you lock the door upon the prisoner ; and , hark ye , let him have a fire in the strong room too — the season requires it ...
... light a fire for yourselves there , and I'll send you plenty of stuff to make you comfortable . But be sure you lock the door upon the prisoner ; and , hark ye , let him have a fire in the strong room too — the season requires it ...
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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...
Page 294 - For though, seduced and led astray, Thou'st travell'd far and wander'd long, Thy God hath seen thee all the way, And all the turns that led thee wrong. The Hall of Justice.
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.