Guy Mannering Or The AstrologerBaudry's Foreign Library, 1831 - 532 pages |
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... night in ascertaining the position of the heavenly bodies , and calculating their probable influence ; until at length the result of his observations induced him to send for the father , and conjure him , in the most solemn manner , to ...
... night in ascertaining the position of the heavenly bodies , and calculating their probable influence ; until at length the result of his observations induced him to send for the father , and conjure him , in the most solemn manner , to ...
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... night gave life . There is my address ; you may write to me from time to time concerning the progress of the boy in religious knowledge . If he be bred up as I advise , I think it will be best that he come to my house at the time when ...
... night gave life . There is my address ; you may write to me from time to time concerning the progress of the boy in religious knowledge . If he be bred up as I advise , I think it will be best that he come to my house at the time when ...
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... night . His queries were usually answered by a counter - challenge re- specting the place from whence he came . While sufficient day - light remained to show the dress and appearance of a gentle- man , these cross interrogatories were ...
... night . His queries were usually answered by a counter - challenge re- specting the place from whence he came . While sufficient day - light remained to show the dress and appearance of a gentle- man , these cross interrogatories were ...
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... with creeks and small inlets , which it was only safe to pass at particular times of the tide . Neither circumstance would have suited a dark night , a fatigued horse , and a traveller ignorant of his GUY MANNERING . 25.
... with creeks and small inlets , which it was only safe to pass at particular times of the tide . Neither circumstance would have suited a dark night , a fatigued horse , and a traveller ignorant of his GUY MANNERING . 25.
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... night at the first inhabited place , however poor , he might chance to reach , unless he could procure a guide to this unlucky village of Kippletringan . A miserable hut gave him an opportunity to execute his purpose . He found out the ...
... night at the first inhabited place , however poor , he might chance to reach , unless he could procure a guide to this unlucky village of Kippletringan . A miserable hut gave him an opportunity to execute his purpose . He found out the ...
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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