Guy Mannering Or The AstrologerA. and C. Black, 1862 - 313 pages |
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... give thee grace to support it with firmness ! " The young man was left alone ; and hardly did he find himself so , when , like a swarm of demons , the recollection of all his sins of omission and commission , rendered even more terrible ...
... give thee grace to support it with firmness ! " The young man was left alone ; and hardly did he find himself so , when , like a swarm of demons , the recollection of all his sins of omission and commission , rendered even more terrible ...
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... give me a night's lodgings ? " " Troth can I no - I am a lone woman , for James he's awa to Drumshourloch fair with the year - aulds , and I daurna for my life open the door to ony o ' your gang - there - out sort o ' bodies . " " But ...
... give me a night's lodgings ? " " Troth can I no - I am a lone woman , for James he's awa to Drumshourloch fair with the year - aulds , and I daurna for my life open the door to ony o ' your gang - there - out sort o ' bodies . " " But ...
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... give the reader some insight into his state and conver- sation , before he has finished a long lecture to Mannering ... gives him this character : " He was a man of eminent parts 3 GUY MANNERING . perhaps the minister's assistant; his ...
... give the reader some insight into his state and conver- sation , before he has finished a long lecture to Mannering ... gives him this character : " He was a man of eminent parts 3 GUY MANNERING . perhaps the minister's assistant; his ...
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... give him , and the poor for nothing ; and , to the shame of the former be it spoken , the pedagogue's gains never equalled those of a skilful ploughman . He wrote , however , a good hand , and added something to his pittance by copying ...
... give him , and the poor for nothing ; and , to the shame of the former be it spoken , the pedagogue's gains never equalled those of a skilful ploughman . He wrote , however , a good hand , and added something to his pittance by copying ...
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... give him credit for being half serious . As for Meg , she fixed her bewildered eyes upon the astro- loger , overpowered by a jargon more mysterious than her own . Mannering pressed his advantage , and ran over all the hard terms of art ...
... give him credit for being half serious . As for Meg , she fixed her bewildered eyes upon the astro- loger , overpowered by a jargon more mysterious than her own . Mannering pressed his advantage , and ran over all the hard terms of art ...
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Allonby answered appearance Astrologer auld Aweel bairn better called Captain castle character Charles Hazlewood circumstances Colonel Mannering counsellor Dandie dear Derncleugh deyvil Dinmont Dirk Hatteraick Dominie Sampson door Ellangowan eyes father favour fear feelings fellow frae Frank Kennedy gentleman gipsy Glossin gude Guy Mannering hand Hazle Hazlewood-house head heard honour horse Julia justice justice of peace Kennedy Kippletringan Laird Liddesdale light look Lucy Bertram lugger Mac-Candlish Mac-Guffog Mac-Morlan mair Mannering's Matilda maun Merrilies mind Miss Bertram Miss Mannering morning muckle never night observed occasion ower person Pleydell poor Portanferry postilion prisoner racter recollection replied round ruin scene Scotland seemed shew Singleside smugglers stranger suppose tell there's thing thought tion turned Vanbeest Brown voice Warroch weel window woman wood Woodbourne ye'll young Hazlewood young lady younker