Guy Mannering Or, the Astrologer |
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... short , preserve him as far as possible from all sin , save that of which too great a portion belongs to all the fallen race of Adam . With the approach of his twenty - first birth - day comes the crisis of his fate . If he survive it ...
... short , preserve him as far as possible from all sin , save that of which too great a portion belongs to all the fallen race of Adam . With the approach of his twenty - first birth - day comes the crisis of his fate . If he survive it ...
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... short , something was meditated upon a plan resembling the imaginative tale of Sintram and his Companions , by Mons . Le Baron de la Motte Fouqué , although , if it then existed , the author had not seen it . The scheme projected may be ...
... short , something was meditated upon a plan resembling the imaginative tale of Sintram and his Companions , by Mons . Le Baron de la Motte Fouqué , although , if it then existed , the author had not seen it . The scheme projected may be ...
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... short cloak of a peculiar fashion , and a long staff nearly as tall as herself . I remember her well ; every week she paid my father a visit for her awmous , when I was a little boy , and I looked upon Madge with no common degree of awe ...
... short cloak of a peculiar fashion , and a long staff nearly as tall as herself . I remember her well ; every week she paid my father a visit for her awmous , when I was a little boy , and I looked upon Madge with no common degree of awe ...
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... short rent - roll , like many lairds of that period . His list of forefathers ascended so high , that they were lost in the bar- barous ages of Galwegian independence ; so that his genealogical tree , besides the Christian and crusading ...
... short rent - roll , like many lairds of that period . His list of forefathers ascended so high , that they were lost in the bar- barous ages of Galwegian independence ; so that his genealogical tree , besides the Christian and crusading ...
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... short accounts , and maybe a keg or two , or a dozen pounds left at your stable door , instead of a d ― d lang account at Christmas from Duncan Robb , the grocer at Kippletringan , who has aye a sum to make up , and either wants ready ...
... short accounts , and maybe a keg or two , or a dozen pounds left at your stable door , instead of a d ― d lang account at Christmas from Duncan Robb , the grocer at Kippletringan , who has aye a sum to make up , and either wants ready ...
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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