Guy Mannering Or The AstrologerA. and C. Black, 1862 - 313 pages |
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... side , and was married to a Young . She was a remarkable personage of a very commanding presence and high stature , being nearly six feet high . She had a large aquiline nose - penetrating eyes , even in her old age - bushy hair , that ...
... side , and was married to a Young . She was a remarkable personage of a very commanding presence and high stature , being nearly six feet high . She had a large aquiline nose - penetrating eyes , even in her old age - bushy hair , that ...
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... side and before him . Little eminences arose like islands on its surface , bearing here and there patches of corn , which even at this season was green , and sometimes a hut , or farm - house , shaded by a willow or two , and surrounded ...
... side and before him . Little eminences arose like islands on its surface , bearing here and there patches of corn , which even at this season was green , and sometimes a hut , or farm - house , shaded by a willow or two , and surrounded ...
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... side , as that worthy divine to the stronger . And truly , like him , they had their reward . Allan Bertram of Ellangowan , who flourished tempore Caroli primi , was , says my authority , Sir Robert Douglas , in his Scottish Baronage ...
... side , as that worthy divine to the stronger . And truly , like him , they had their reward . Allan Bertram of Ellangowan , who flourished tempore Caroli primi , was , says my authority , Sir Robert Douglas , in his Scottish Baronage ...
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... side , and a door in the middle , leading to a parlour and withdrawing room , full of all man- ner of cross lights . This was the New Place of Ellangowan , in which we left our hero , better amused perhaps than our readers , and to this ...
... side , and a door in the middle , leading to a parlour and withdrawing room , full of all man- ner of cross lights . This was the New Place of Ellangowan , in which we left our hero , better amused perhaps than our readers , and to this ...
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... side . 66 A circumstance arrested Ellangowan's progress on the high road to ruin . This was his marriage with a lady who had a portion of about four thousand pounds . Nobody in the neighbourhood could conceive why she married him , and ...
... side . 66 A circumstance arrested Ellangowan's progress on the high road to ruin . This was his marriage with a lady who had a portion of about four thousand pounds . Nobody in the neighbourhood could conceive why she married him , and ...
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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