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... lives under a firlot . Pulling down part of these venerable ruins , he built with the stones a narrow house of three stories high , with a front like a grenadier's cap , having in the very centre a round window , like the single eye of ...
... lives under a firlot . Pulling down part of these venerable ruins , he built with the stones a narrow house of three stories high , with a front like a grenadier's cap , having in the very centre a round window , like the single eye of ...
Page 29
... lives and fortunes of those two persons , in whose society Mannering now found himself comfort- ably seated . CHAPTER III . Do not the hist'ries of all ages Relate miraculous presages , Of strange turns in the world's affairs , Foreseen ...
... lives and fortunes of those two persons , in whose society Mannering now found himself comfort- ably seated . CHAPTER III . Do not the hist'ries of all ages Relate miraculous presages , Of strange turns in the world's affairs , Foreseen ...
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... live far from hereabouts - ye needna shake your head and groan , Dominie - I am sure the kirk dues were a ' weel paid , and what can man do mair ? it was laid till her ere she had a sark ower her head ; and the man that she since wadded ...
... live far from hereabouts - ye needna shake your head and groan , Dominie - I am sure the kirk dues were a ' weel paid , and what can man do mair ? it was laid till her ere she had a sark ower her head ; and the man that she since wadded ...
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... live no longer in the faith of reason ! But still the heart doth need a language , still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names . And to yon starry world they now are gone , Spirits or gods , that used to share this earth With ...
... live no longer in the faith of reason ! But still the heart doth need a language , still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names . And to yon starry world they now are gone , Spirits or gods , that used to share this earth With ...
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... live in the meanwhile , for here's breakfast on the table , and the Dominie ready to say the grace . " - -- - The Dominie did accordingly pronounce a benediction , that exceeded in length any speech which Mannering had yet heard him ...
... live in the meanwhile , for here's breakfast on the table , and the Dominie ready to say the grace . " - -- - The Dominie did accordingly pronounce a benediction , that exceeded in length any speech which Mannering had yet heard him ...
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Allonby answered appearance Astrologer auld Aweel bairn better called Captain castle character Charles Hazlewood Charlies-hope 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 horse Julia justice justice of peace 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 postilion prisoner recollection replied round ruin scene Scotland seemed Singleside Sir Robert Hazlewood smugglers stranger suppose tell there's thing thought tion turned Vanbeest Brown voice Warroch weel window woman wood Woodbourne young Hazlewood young lady younker