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Page xiii
... a great deal , about that degraded class who are called gipsies ; who are in
most cases a mixed race between the ancient Egyptians who arrived in Europe
about the beginning of the fifteenth century and vagrants of European descent .
... a great deal , about that degraded class who are called gipsies ; who are in
most cases a mixed race between the ancient Egyptians who arrived in Europe
about the beginning of the fifteenth century and vagrants of European descent .
Page xv
The end of all this was an inquiry what money the farmer had about him ; and an
urgent request , or command , that he would make her his purse - keeper , since
the bairns , as she called her sons , would be soon home . The poor farmer made
...
The end of all this was an inquiry what money the farmer had about him ; and an
urgent request , or command , that he would make her his purse - keeper , since
the bairns , as she called her sons , would be soon home . The poor farmer made
...
Page xx
The prototype of Dirk Hatteraick is considered as having been a Dutch skipper
called Yawkins . This man was well known on the coast of Galloway and
Dumfries - shire , as sole proprietor and master of a buckkar , or smuggling
lugger , called ...
The prototype of Dirk Hatteraick is considered as having been a Dutch skipper
called Yawkins . This man was well known on the coast of Galloway and
Dumfries - shire , as sole proprietor and master of a buckkar , or smuggling
lugger , called ...
Page xxi
The buckkar was perhaps called the ' Black Prince ' in honour of the formidable
insurer . The ' Black Prince ' used to discharge her cargo at Luce , Balcarry , and
elsewhere on the coast ; but her owner ' s favourite landing - places were at the ...
The buckkar was perhaps called the ' Black Prince ' in honour of the formidable
insurer . The ' Black Prince ' used to discharge her cargo at Luce , Balcarry , and
elsewhere on the coast ; but her owner ' s favourite landing - places were at the ...
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His guide then dragged the weary hack along a broken and stony cart - track ,
next over a ploughed field , then broke down a slap , as he called it , in a dry -
stone fence , and lugged the unresisting animal through the breach , about a
rood of ...
His guide then dragged the weary hack along a broken and stony cart - track ,
next over a ploughed field , then broke down a slap , as he called it , in a dry -
stone fence , and lugged the unresisting animal through the breach , about a
rood of ...
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Page 333 - Ecstasy! 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.
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Page 96 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
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Page 96 - I'll be no burden ; I have thought how to prevent that. But, as Euth said unto Naomi, " Entreat me not to leave thee, nor to depart from thee ; for whither thou goest I will go, and where thou dwellest I will dwell ; thy people shall be my people, and thy God shall be my God. Where thou diest will I die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death do part thee and me.
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| Title | Guy Mannering or the astrologer Volume 2 of Waverley Novels, Walter Scott |
| Author | Walter Scott |
| Publisher | Gebbie, 1896 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 19 Mar 2008 |
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