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... Laird of Lagg , Theophilus Oglethorpe , and Sir James Turner ; and lastly , took his grey gelding , and joined ... Laird's Lair . " His son , Lewis , had more prudence than seems usually to have belonged to the family . He nursed what ...
... Laird of Lagg , Theophilus Oglethorpe , and Sir James Turner ; and lastly , took his grey gelding , and joined ... Laird's Lair . " His son , Lewis , had more prudence than seems usually to have belonged to the family . He nursed what ...
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... Laird Lewis's personal and active superintendence , all his undertakings miscarried , and became either abortive or pe- rilous . Without a single spark of energy to meet or repel these misfortunes , Godfrey put his faith in the activity ...
... Laird Lewis's personal and active superintendence , all his undertakings miscarried , and became either abortive or pe- rilous . Without a single spark of energy to meet or repel these misfortunes , Godfrey put his faith in the activity ...
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... laird , honest man , he ' ll never find it — he never minds what a puir body does . " Pedlars , gipsies , tinkers , vagrants of all descriptions , roosted about his outhouses , or harboured in his kitchen ; and the laird , who was " nae ...
... laird , honest man , he ' ll never find it — he never minds what a puir body does . " Pedlars , gipsies , tinkers , vagrants of all descriptions , roosted about his outhouses , or harboured in his kitchen ; and the laird , who was " nae ...
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... Laird himself , it still remains that we make the reader in some degree acquainted with his companion . This was Abel Sampson , commonly called , from his occupation as a pedagogue , Dominie Sampson . He was of low birth , but having ...
... Laird himself , it still remains that we make the reader in some degree acquainted with his companion . This was Abel Sampson , commonly called , from his occupation as a pedagogue , Dominie Sampson . He was of low birth , but having ...
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... Laird , who was much estranged from general so- ciety , became partial to that of Dominie Sampson . Conversation , it is true , was out of the question , but the Dominie was a good listener , and stirred the fire with some address . He ...
... Laird , who was much estranged from general so- ciety , became partial to that of Dominie Sampson . Conversation , it is true , was out of the question , but the Dominie was a good listener , and stirred the fire with some address . He ...
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Allonby answered appearance Astrologer auld Aweel bairn better called Captain castle character Charles Hazlewood Charlies-hope Colonel Mannering counsellor Dandie dear Derncleugh deyvil Dinmont Dirk Hatteraick Dominie Sampson door Ellangowan eyes father favour fear feelings fellow frae Frank Kennedy gentleman gipsy Glossin gude Guy Mannering hand Hazlewood-house head heard honour 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 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 Sir Robert Hazlewood smugglers stranger supposed tell there's thing thought tion turned Vanbeest Brown voice Warroch weel window woman wood Woodbourne young Hazlewood young lady younker