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... wooden trencher and knife and fork before the traveller , pointed to the round of beef , recommended Mr Dinmont's good example , and , finally , filled a brown pitcher with her home - brewed . Brown lost no time in GUY MANNERING . 7.
... wooden trencher and knife and fork before the traveller , pointed to the round of beef , recommended Mr Dinmont's good example , and , finally , filled a brown pitcher with her home - brewed . Brown lost no time in GUY MANNERING . 7.
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... slopes exhibit either rocks or woods . Yet the view was wild , solitary , and pleasingly rural . No inclosures , no roads , almost no tillage - it seemed a land which a patriarch would have chosen to feed 24 GUY MANNERING .
... slopes exhibit either rocks or woods . Yet the view was wild , solitary , and pleasingly rural . No inclosures , no roads , almost no tillage - it seemed a land which a patriarch would have chosen to feed 24 GUY MANNERING .
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... wood , or a patch of furze . Along the edges of this ravine , which , as we have said , was very narrow , but of profound depth , the hunters on horse and foot ranged them- selves ; almost every farmer had with him at least a brace of ...
... wood , or a patch of furze . Along the edges of this ravine , which , as we have said , was very narrow , but of profound depth , the hunters on horse and foot ranged them- selves ; almost every farmer had with him at least a brace of ...
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... wood floated half - blazing , half - sparkling , but soon extinguished , down the stream- " the deil's in the man ! I'll never mas- ter him without the light - and a braver kipper , could I but land him , never reisted abune a GUY ...
... wood floated half - blazing , half - sparkling , but soon extinguished , down the stream- " the deil's in the man ! I'll never mas- ter him without the light - and a braver kipper , could I but land him , never reisted abune a GUY ...
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... wood through which it winded , was now less easily distinguishable , although the whiteness of the snow afforded some reflected light to assist his search . Directing himself as much as possible through the more open parts of the wood ...
... wood through which it winded , was now less easily distinguishable , although the whiteness of the snow afforded some reflected light to assist his search . Directing himself as much as possible through the more open parts of the wood ...
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