Guy Mannering, Or The Astrologer, Part 1 |
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... honoured with a letter from a gentleman deeply skilled in these mysteries , who kindly undertook to calculate the nativity of the writer of Guy Mannering , who might be supposed to be friendly to the divine art which he pro- fessed ...
... honoured with a letter from a gentleman deeply skilled in these mysteries , who kindly undertook to calculate the nativity of the writer of Guy Mannering , who might be supposed to be friendly to the divine art which he pro- fessed ...
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Walter Scott. men gang to see that . " — Or , “ Your honour will be come frae the house o ' Pouderloupat ? " But when the voice of the querist alone was distinguishable , the response usually was , " Where are ye com- ing frae at sic a ...
Walter Scott. men gang to see that . " — Or , “ Your honour will be come frae the house o ' Pouderloupat ? " But when the voice of the querist alone was distinguishable , the response usually was , " Where are ye com- ing frae at sic a ...
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... honour of knighthood conferred upon him by his most sacred majesty , and was sequestrated as a malignant by the parliament , 1642 , and afterwards as a resolutioner , in the year 1648 . " - These two cross - grained epithets of ...
... honour of knighthood conferred upon him by his most sacred majesty , and was sequestrated as a malignant by the parliament , 1642 , and afterwards as a resolutioner , in the year 1648 . " - These two cross - grained epithets of ...
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... honour , for such agricultural and com- mercial negociations were very ill looked upon by his brother lairds , who minded nothing but cock - fighting , hunting , coursing , and horse- racing , with now and then the alternation of a ...
... honour , for such agricultural and com- mercial negociations were very ill looked upon by his brother lairds , who minded nothing but cock - fighting , hunting , coursing , and horse- racing , with now and then the alternation of a ...
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... honour to sit up wi ' us , I ain sure we shall not detain you very late . Luckie Howatson is very expeditious ; - there was ance a lass that was in that way — she did not live far from hereabouts - ye needna shake your head and groan ...
... honour to sit up wi ' us , I ain sure we shall not detain you very late . Luckie Howatson is very expeditious ; - there was ance a lass that was in that way — she did not live far from hereabouts - ye needna shake your head and groan ...
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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