Guy Mannering Or The AstrologerBaudry's Foreign Library, 1831 - 532 pages |
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Page 185
... Dinmont's good example , and , finally , filled a brown pitcher with her home - brewed . Brown lost no time in doing ample credit to both . For a while , his opposite neighbour and he were too busy to take much notice of each other ...
... Dinmont's good example , and , finally , filled a brown pitcher with her home - brewed . Brown lost no time in doing ample credit to both . For a while , his opposite neighbour and he were too busy to take much notice of each other ...
Page 186
... Dinmont — at Charlies - hope - ye shall see a black - cock , and shoot a black - cock , and eat a black - cock too , man . " Why , the proof of the matter is the eating , to be sure , sir ; and I shall be happy if I can find time to ...
... Dinmont — at Charlies - hope - ye shall see a black - cock , and shoot a black - cock , and eat a black - cock too , man . " Why , the proof of the matter is the eating , to be sure , sir ; and I shall be happy if I can find time to ...
Page 187
... Dinmont , " for it made nae sma ' noise in the country - side . He died just at the roup of the stocking and furniture ; it stoppit the roup , and mouy folk were disap- pointed . They said he was the last of an auld family too , and ...
... Dinmont , " for it made nae sma ' noise in the country - side . He died just at the roup of the stocking and furniture ; it stoppit the roup , and mouy folk were disap- pointed . They said he was the last of an auld family too , and ...
Page 191
... Dinmont had probably made a visit there either of business or pleasure - I wish , thought Brown , the good farmer had staid till I came up ; I should not have been sorry to ask * To scour the cramp - ring , is said metaphorically , for ...
... Dinmont had probably made a visit there either of business or pleasure - I wish , thought Brown , the good farmer had staid till I came up ; I should not have been sorry to ask * To scour the cramp - ring , is said metaphorically , for ...
Page 192
... Dinmont , and the gipsy ; but he was naturally of a fearless dispo- sition , had nothing about him that could tempt the spoiler , and trusted to get through the Waste with day - light . In this last particular , however , he was likely ...
... Dinmont , and the gipsy ; but he was naturally of a fearless dispo- sition , had nothing about him that could tempt the spoiler , and trusted to get through the Waste with day - light . In this last particular , however , he was likely ...
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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 gentleman gipsy Glossin gude Guy Mannering hand Hazlewood-house head heard honour hope 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 Mervyn's mind Miss Bertram Miss Mannering morning muckle naething never night observed occasion ower person Pleydell poor Portanferry postilion prisoner recollection replied round ruin scene Scotland seemed Singleside smugglers stranger suppose tell there's thing thought turned Vanbeest Brown voice Warroch weel window woman wood Woodbourne ye'll young Hazlewood young lady younker