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... wood , shooting his game , and so forth , " for the laird , honest man , he'll never find it , he never minds what a puir body does . ” — Ped- lars , gypsies , tinkers , vagrants of all descriptions , roosted about his outhouses , or ...
... wood , shooting his game , and so forth , " for the laird , honest man , he'll never find it , he never minds what a puir body does . ” — Ped- lars , gypsies , tinkers , vagrants of all descriptions , roosted about his outhouses , or ...
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... wood- cock caught in his own springe . He turned his face alternately from the one spokesman to the other , and began , from the gravity with which Mannering plied his adversary , and the learning which he dis- played in the controversy ...
... wood- cock caught in his own springe . He turned his face alternately from the one spokesman to the other , and began , from the gravity with which Mannering plied his adversary , and the learning which he dis- played in the controversy ...
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... wood , which on that favoured coast grows almost within water - mark . A fisherman's cottage peeped from among the ... woods advanced far into the ocean , waving in the moonlight along ground of an undulating and varied form , and ...
... wood , which on that favoured coast grows almost within water - mark . A fisherman's cottage peeped from among the ... woods advanced far into the ocean , waving in the moonlight along ground of an undulating and varied form , and ...
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... wood- ed banks . The spire of a church , and the appearance of some houses , indicated the situation of a village at the place where the stream had its junction with the ocean . The vales seemed well cultivated , the little enclosures ...
... wood- ed banks . The spire of a church , and the appearance of some houses , indicated the situation of a village at the place where the stream had its junction with the ocean . The vales seemed well cultivated , the little enclosures ...
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... wood . A scene so different from what last night's journey had presaged produced a proportional effect upon Mannering . Beneath his eye lay the modern house ; an awkward mansion , indeed , in point o architecture , but well situated ...
... wood . A scene so different from what last night's journey had presaged produced a proportional effect upon Mannering . Beneath his eye lay the modern house ; an awkward mansion , indeed , in point o architecture , but well situated ...
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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