Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer, Band 2James Ballantyne and Company For Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London; and Archibald Constable and Company Edinburgh., 1815 - 358 Seiten |
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... called the Waste of Cumberland . He passed a soli- tary house , towards which the horseman who preceded him had apparently turned up , for his horse's tread was evident in that direction . A little farther , he seemed to have returned ...
... called the Waste of Cumberland . He passed a soli- tary house , towards which the horseman who preceded him had apparently turned up , for his horse's tread was evident in that direction . A little farther , he seemed to have returned ...
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... called to his companion to come along , " for that one's content , ” mean , ing , probably , past resistance or complaint . One ruffian was armed with a cutlass , the other with a bludgeon ; but as the road was pretty narrow , bar fire ...
... called to his companion to come along , " for that one's content , ” mean , ing , probably , past resistance or complaint . One ruffian was armed with a cutlass , the other with a bludgeon ; but as the road was pretty narrow , bar fire ...
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... called , being the remains of an old Ro- man road , which traverses these wild re- gions in a due northerly direction . Here they got on at the rate of nine or ten miles an hour , Dumple seeking no other respite than what arose from ...
... called , being the remains of an old Ro- man road , which traverses these wild re- gions in a due northerly direction . Here they got on at the rate of nine or ten miles an hour , Dumple seeking no other respite than what arose from ...
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... share of a dried wedder's skin , which , with the wool uppermost and unshorn , served all the purposes of a Bristol hearth - rug . * The active bustle of the mistress ( so she . was called in the kitchen , and the gude- 44 GUY MANNERING .
... share of a dried wedder's skin , which , with the wool uppermost and unshorn , served all the purposes of a Bristol hearth - rug . * The active bustle of the mistress ( so she . was called in the kitchen , and the gude- 44 GUY MANNERING .
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Walter Scott . was called in the kitchen , and the gude- wife in the parlour ) had already signed the fate of a couple of fowls , which , for want of time to dress them otherwise , soon appeared recking from the gridiron , or brander ...
Walter Scott . was called in the kitchen , and the gude- wife in the parlour ) had already signed the fate of a couple of fowls , which , for want of time to dress them otherwise , soon appeared recking from the gridiron , or brander ...
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ance appeared auld Aweel Brown called canna Captain Charles Hazlewood Charlies-hope chuse Colonel Mannering Dandie dead dearest Matilda deed devil deyvil Dinmont dinna Dirk Hatteraick Dominie door Dumple e'en Ellangowan enquire farmer father favour fear feelings fellow frae gang gentleman Gilsland Glossin goodwife gude gudewife GUY MANNERING gypsey hand Hazle heard honour horses JOANNA BAILLIE Jock Julia Mannering justice justice of peace lady leddy length light look Lucy Bertram Mac-Candlish Mac-Guffog Mac-Morlan mair maun ment mind Miss Bertram morning muckle naething never night ower Pandæmonium person Pleydell poor portmanteau Protocol round ruffians Sampson scene Scotland seemed shew side Singleside smugglers snow speak stood stranger sure tell there's thing thought tion turned Vanbeest walk Warroch weel woman Woodbourne ye'll young Hazlewood younker
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Seite 165 - A man may see how this world goes, with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yon' justice rails upon yon' simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: Change places; and, handydandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?
Seite 119 - We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate.
Seite 252 - Give me a cup of sack, to make mine eyes look red, that it may be thought I have wept ; for I must speak in passion, and I will do it in king Cambyses
Seite 96 - Nor board nor garner own we now, Nor roof nor latched door, Nor kind mate, bound, by holy vow, To bless a good man's store. Noon lulls us in a gloomy den, And night is grown our day ; Uprouse ye, then, my merry men ! And use it as ye may.
Seite 278 - Dark but not awful, dismal but yet mean, With anxious bustle moves the cumbrous scene; Presents no objects tender or profound...
Seite 290 - A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason ; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.