Guy Mannering Or The AstrologerBaudry's Foreign Library, 1831 - 532 pages |
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... side , and was married to a Young . She was a remarkable personage - of a very commanding presence , and high stature , being nearly six feet high . She had a large aquiline nose , -penetrating eyes , even in her old age - bushy hair ...
... side , and was married to a Young . She was a remarkable personage - of a very commanding presence , and high stature , being nearly six feet high . She had a large aquiline nose , -penetrating eyes , even in her old age - bushy hair ...
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... side and before him . Little eminences arose like islands on its surface , bearing here and there patches of corn , which even at this season was green , and sometimes a hut , or farm- house , shaded by a willow or two , and surrounded ...
... side and before him . Little eminences arose like islands on its surface , bearing here and there patches of corn , which even at this season was green , and sometimes a hut , or farm- house , shaded by a willow or two , and surrounded ...
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... side , as that worthy divine to the stronger . And truly , like him , they had their reward . Allan Bertram of Ellangowan , who flourished tempore Caroli primi , was , says my authority , Sir Robert Douglas , in his Scot- tish Baronage ...
... side , as that worthy divine to the stronger . And truly , like him , they had their reward . Allan Bertram of Ellangowan , who flourished tempore Caroli primi , was , says my authority , Sir Robert Douglas , in his Scot- tish Baronage ...
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... side , and a door in the middle , leading to a parlour and withdrawing room , full of all manner of cross lights . This was the New Place of Ellangowan , in which we left our hero , better amused perhaps than our readers , and to this ...
... side , and a door in the middle , leading to a parlour and withdrawing room , full of all manner of cross lights . This was the New Place of Ellangowan , in which we left our hero , better amused perhaps than our readers , and to this ...
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... side . A circumstance arrested Ellangowan's progress on the high oa d to ruin . This was his marriage with à lady who had a por- tion of about four thousand pounds . Nobody in the neighbour- hood could conceive why she married him , and ...
... side . A circumstance arrested Ellangowan's progress on the high oa d to ruin . This was his marriage with à lady who had a por- tion of about four thousand pounds . Nobody in the neighbour- hood could conceive why she married him , and ...
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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