Guy Mannering Or The AstrologerA. and C. Black, 1862 - 313 pages |
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Page v
... seemed involuntary , broken sleep , moonlight wanderings , and a melancholy for which he could assign no reason , seemed to threaten at once his bodily health and the stability of his mind . The Astrologer was consulted by letter , and ...
... seemed involuntary , broken sleep , moonlight wanderings , and a melancholy for which he could assign no reason , seemed to threaten at once his bodily health and the stability of his mind . The Astrologer was consulted by letter , and ...
Page vi
... seemed determined to drive him to despair . As he com- bated these horrible recollections with distracted feelings but with a resolved mind , he became aware that his arguments were answered by the sophistry of another , and that the ...
... seemed determined to drive him to despair . As he com- bated these horrible recollections with distracted feelings but with a resolved mind , he became aware that his arguments were answered by the sophistry of another , and that the ...
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... seemed to proceed at a somewhat livelier pace than before , affording thereby a hope that he knew he was drawing near to his quarters for the evening . This hope , however , was not speedily accomplished , and Mannering , whose ...
... seemed to proceed at a somewhat livelier pace than before , affording thereby a hope that he knew he was drawing near to his quarters for the evening . This hope , however , was not speedily accomplished , and Mannering , whose ...
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... seemed too deep for a woman . The words , as far as Mannering could distinguish them , seemed to run thus : " Canny moment , lucky fit ; Is the lady lighter yet ? Be it lad , or be it lass , Sign wi ' cross , and sain wi ' mass ...
... seemed too deep for a woman . The words , as far as Mannering could distinguish them , seemed to run thus : " Canny moment , lucky fit ; Is the lady lighter yet ? Be it lad , or be it lass , Sign wi ' cross , and sain wi ' mass ...
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... seemed rather masculine than feminine . Her dark elf- locks shot out like the snakes of the gorgon , between an old - fashioned bonnet called a bongrace , heightening the singular effect of her strong and weather - beaten features ...
... seemed rather masculine than feminine . Her dark elf- locks shot out like the snakes of the gorgon , between an old - fashioned bonnet called a bongrace , heightening the singular effect of her strong and weather - beaten features ...
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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