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... Dominie Sampson , the reader may easily suppose that a poor modest humble scholar , who has won his way through the classics , yet has fallen to leeward in the voyage of life , is no un- common personage in a country , where a certain ...
... Dominie Sampson , the reader may easily suppose that a poor modest humble scholar , who has won his way through the classics , yet has fallen to leeward in the voyage of life , is no un- common personage in a country , where a certain ...
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... Dominie Sampson ( for he had already attained that honourable title ) descend the stairs from the Greek class , with his Lexicon under his arm , his long mis - shapen legs sprawling abroad , and keeping awk- ward time to the play of his ...
... Dominie Sampson ( for he had already attained that honourable title ) descend the stairs from the Greek class , with his Lexicon under his arm , his long mis - shapen legs sprawling abroad , and keeping awk- ward time to the play of his ...
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... Dominie Sampson . Conversation , it is true , was out of the question , but the Dominie was a good listener , and stirred the fire with some address . He attempted even to snuff the candles , but was unsuccessful , and relinquished that ...
... Dominie Sampson . Conversation , it is true , was out of the question , but the Dominie was a good listener , and stirred the fire with some address . He attempted even to snuff the candles , but was unsuccessful , and relinquished that ...
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... Dominie ? I am sure Meg's sangs do nae ill , " " What " Nor good neither , " answered Dominie Sampson , in a voice whose untuneable harshness corresponded with the awkwardness of his figure . They were the first words which Mannering ...
... Dominie ? I am sure Meg's sangs do nae ill , " " What " Nor good neither , " answered Dominie Sampson , in a voice whose untuneable harshness corresponded with the awkwardness of his figure . They were the first words which Mannering ...
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... Dominie . “ Who , or what is she , in the name of wonder ? " " Harlot , thief , witch , and gipsy , " answered Sampson again . " O troth , Laird , " continued Meg , during this by - talk , " it's but to the like o ' you ane can open ...
... Dominie . “ Who , or what is she , in the name of wonder ? " " Harlot , thief , witch , and gipsy , " answered Sampson again . " O troth , Laird , " continued Meg , during this by - talk , " it's but to the like o ' you ane can open ...
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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 e'en Ellangowan eyes father favour fear feelings fellow frae Frank Kennedy gentleman gipsy Glossin gude Guy Mannering hand Hazlewood-house head heard honour hope horse Jean Gordon Julia justice 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 prisoner recollection replied round ruin scene Scotland seemed Sir Robert Hazlewood smugglers stranger suppose tell there's thing thought tram turned voice Warroch weel window woman wood Woodbourne ye'll young Hazlewood young lady younker