Guy Mannering Or The AstrologerBaudry's Foreign Library, 1831 - 532 pages |
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... give thee grace to support it with firmness ! " But The young man was left alone ; and hardly did he find himself so , when , like a swarm of demons , the recollection of all his sins of omission and commission , rendered even more ...
... give thee grace to support it with firmness ! " But The young man was left alone ; and hardly did he find himself so , when , like a swarm of demons , the recollection of all his sins of omission and commission , rendered even more ...
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... give me a night's lodgings ? " " Troth can I no - I am a lone woman , for James he's awa to Drumshourloch fair with the year - aulds , and I daurna for my life open the door to ony o ' your gang - there - out sort o ' bodies . " " But ...
... give me a night's lodgings ? " " Troth can I no - I am a lone woman , for James he's awa to Drumshourloch fair with the year - aulds , and I daurna for my life open the door to ony o ' your gang - there - out sort o ' bodies . " " But ...
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... give the reader some insight into his state and conversation , before he has finished a long lecture to Mannering , upon the propriety and comfort of wrap- ping his stirrup - irons round with a wisp of straw when he had occasion to ride ...
... give the reader some insight into his state and conversation , before he has finished a long lecture to Mannering , upon the propriety and comfort of wrap- ping his stirrup - irons round with a wisp of straw when he had occasion to ride ...
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... charms , and my author gives him this character : " He was a man of eminent parts and resolution , for which reason he was chosen by the western counties one of the committee of noblemen and gentlemen , to report their 28 GUY MANNERING .
... charms , and my author gives him this character : " He was a man of eminent parts and resolution , for which reason he was chosen by the western counties one of the committee of noblemen and gentlemen , to report their 28 GUY MANNERING .
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... give him , and the poor for nothing ; and , to the shame of the former be it spoken , the pe- dagogue's gains never equalled those of a skilful ploughman . He wrote , however , a good hand , and added something to his pittance by ...
... give him , and the poor for nothing ; and , to the shame of the former be it spoken , the pe- dagogue's gains never equalled those of a skilful ploughman . He wrote , however , a good hand , and added something to his pittance by ...
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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