Guy Mannering Or The AstrologerBaudry's Foreign Library, 1831 - 532 pages |
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... close of the story to domestic happiness . So ended John Mac Kinlay's legend . The author of Waverley had imagined a possibility of framing an interesting , and perhaps not an unedifying , tale , out of the incidents of the life of a ...
... close of the story to domestic happiness . So ended John Mac Kinlay's legend . The author of Waverley had imagined a possibility of framing an interesting , and perhaps not an unedifying , tale , out of the incidents of the life of a ...
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... close behind The radiance of thy planet — Oh , be warned ! COLERIDGE , from SCHILLER . THE belief in astrology was almost universal in the middle of the seventeenth century ; it began to waver and become doubtful towards the close of ...
... close behind The radiance of thy planet — Oh , be warned ! COLERIDGE , from SCHILLER . THE belief in astrology was almost universal in the middle of the seventeenth century ; it began to waver and become doubtful towards the close of ...
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Sir Walter Scott. greater height would have been an inadequate match in any close personal conflict . He was hard - favoured , and , which was worse , his face bore nothing of the insouciance , the careless frolicsome jollity and vacant ...
Sir Walter Scott. greater height would have been an inadequate match in any close personal conflict . He was hard - favoured , and , which was worse , his face bore nothing of the insouciance , the careless frolicsome jollity and vacant ...
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... close upon the cape , so that they were obliged to wear the vessel for fear of going ashore , and to make a large tack back into the bay , in order to recover sea - room enough to double the headland . " They'll lose her , by- , cargo ...
... close upon the cape , so that they were obliged to wear the vessel for fear of going ashore , and to make a large tack back into the bay , in order to recover sea - room enough to double the headland . " They'll lose her , by- , cargo ...
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... heard his horse's feet . " " That , " said John , with a broad grin , " was Grizzel chasing the humble - cow * out of the close . " * A cow without horns . Sampson coloured up to the eyes - not at the 86 GUY MANNering .
... heard his horse's feet . " " That , " said John , with a broad grin , " was Grizzel chasing the humble - cow * out of the close . " * A cow without horns . Sampson coloured up to the eyes - not at the 86 GUY MANNering .
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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