Guy Mannering: Or, The AstrologerJ. Ballantyne, 1815 - 358 pages |
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Allonby ance answered arms auld Aweel Baronet better called Captain carriage castle Charles Hazlewood Colonel Mannering counsellor custom-house dear Derncleugh deyvil Dinmont dinna Dirk Hatteraick Dominie door Edinburgh eyes father favour feelings fire follow frae Glossin gude GUY MANNERING gypsey hand Hazlewood of Hazlewood Hazlewood-house hear heard heart Henry Bertram honour horse hour Julia kenn'd Kippletringan ladies Laird late Ellangowan Liddesdale light look Lucy Mac-Guffog Mac-Morlan mair Mannering's maun mean Meg Merrilies ment Merrilies mind Miss Bertram Miss Mannering morning murder neighbour night ower person Pleydell Portanferry prisoner recollection respect ruin Sampson Scotland Sir Robert Hazlewood smugglers spect suppose tailzie tell there's thing thought tion tram turn Vanbeest Brown voice weel wood Woodbourne word wretched ye'll young Hazle young Hazlewood younker zlewood
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Page 135 - My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music. It is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word, which madness Would gambol from.
Page 76 - A prison is a house of care. A place where none can thrive, A touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for one alive. Sometimes a place of right. Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves, And honest men among.
Page 33 - I remember the tune well, though I cannot guess what should at present so strongly recall it to my memory.' He took his flageolet from his pocket, and played a simple melody. Apparently the tune awoke the corresponding associations of a damsel...
Page 39 - I'll see their trial first : — Bring in the evidence. — Thou robed man of justice, take thy place ; [To Edgar, And thou, his yoke-fellow of equity, [To the Fool. Bench by his side : — You are of the commission, Sit you too.
Page 34 - He took his flageolet from his pocket, and played a simple melody. Apparently the tune awoke the corresponding associations of a damsel, who, close beside a fine spring about halfway down the descent, and which had once supplied the castle with water, was engaged in bleaching linen.
Page 281 - THE progress of the Borderer, who, as we have said, was the last of the party, was fearfully arrested by a hand, which caught hold of his leg as he dragged his long limbs after him in silence and perturbation through the low and narrow entrance of the subterranean passage. The...
Page 274 - ... gude to fear them of another warld — For if ever the dead came back amang the living, I'll be seen in this glen mony a night after these crazed banes are in the mould.