Guy Mannering Or The AstrologerBaudry's Foreign Library, 1831 - 532 pages |
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... ruin ) was about his person . “ Jean set up a loud shout of joyful recognition— Eh , sirs ! the winsome Gudeman of Lochside ! Light down , light down ; for ye maunna gang farther the night , and a friend's house sae near . ' The farmer ...
... ruin ) was about his person . “ Jean set up a loud shout of joyful recognition— Eh , sirs ! the winsome Gudeman of Lochside ! Light down , light down ; for ye maunna gang farther the night , and a friend's house sae near . ' The farmer ...
Page 17
... ruin came . The estate was sold ; and the old man was about to remove from the house of his fathers , to go he knew not whither , when , like an old piece of furniture , which , left alone in its wonted corner , may hold together for a ...
... ruin came . The estate was sold ; and the old man was about to remove from the house of his fathers , to go he knew not whither , when , like an old piece of furniture , which , left alone in its wonted corner , may hold together for a ...
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... ruins in the county of Dumfries , and spent much of the day in making drawings of them from different points ; so that , on mounting his horse to resume his journey , the brief and gloomy twilight of the season had already commenced ...
... ruins in the county of Dumfries , and spent much of the day in making drawings of them from different points ; so that , on mounting his horse to resume his journey , the brief and gloomy twilight of the season had already commenced ...
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... ruined mansion , of considerable extent . Mannering fixed his eyes upon it with a disconsolate sensation . “ Why , my little fellow , " he said , " this is a ruin , not a house ? " " Ah , but the lairds lived there langsyne - that's ...
... ruined mansion , of considerable extent . Mannering fixed his eyes upon it with a disconsolate sensation . “ Why , my little fellow , " he said , " this is a ruin , not a house ? " " Ah , but the lairds lived there langsyne - that's ...
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... ruins , he built with the stones a narrow house of three stories high , with a front like a grenadier's cap , having in the very centre a round window , like the single eye of a Cyclops , two windows on each side , and a door in the ...
... ruins , he built with the stones a narrow house of three stories high , with a front like a grenadier's cap , having in the very centre a round window , like the single eye of a Cyclops , two windows on each side , and a door in 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