Guy ManneringOxford University Press, 1912 - 549 страници |
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... pieces of local history and tradition which have been supposed to coincide with the fictitious persons , incidents , and scenery of Guy Mannering . The prototype of Dirk Hatteraick is considered as having been INTRODUCTION TO GUY MANNERING.
... pieces of local history and tradition which have been supposed to coincide with the fictitious persons , incidents , and scenery of Guy Mannering . The prototype of Dirk Hatteraick is considered as having been INTRODUCTION TO GUY MANNERING.
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Walter Scott. The prototype of Dirk Hatteraick is considered as having been a Dutch skipper called Yawkins . This man was well known on the coast of Galloway and Dumfries - shire , as sole proprietor and master of a buckkar , or ...
Walter Scott. The prototype of Dirk Hatteraick is considered as having been a Dutch skipper called Yawkins . This man was well known on the coast of Galloway and Dumfries - shire , as sole proprietor and master of a buckkar , or ...
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... Hatteraick's Cave . Strangers who visit this place , the scenery of which is highly romantic , are also shown , under the name of the Gauger's Loup , a tremendous preci- pice , being the same , it is asserted , from which Kennedy was ...
... Hatteraick's Cave . Strangers who visit this place , the scenery of which is highly romantic , are also shown , under the name of the Gauger's Loup , a tremendous preci- pice , being the same , it is asserted , from which Kennedy was ...
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... Hatteraick , of the " Yungfrauw Hagenslaapen , " well known on this coast ; I am not ashamed of my name , nor of my vessel no , nor of my cargo neither for that matter . ' ' I daresay you have no reason , sir . ' ' Tausend donner , no ...
... Hatteraick , of the " Yungfrauw Hagenslaapen , " well known on this coast ; I am not ashamed of my name , nor of my vessel no , nor of my cargo neither for that matter . ' ' I daresay you have no reason , sir . ' ' Tausend donner , no ...
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... Hatteraick knows how to be civil . ' There was a mixture of impudence , hardihood , and suspicious fear about this man which was inexpressibly disgusting . His manners were those of a ruffian , conscious of the suspicion attend- ing his ...
... Hatteraick knows how to be civil . ' There was a mixture of impudence , hardihood , and suspicious fear about this man which was inexpressibly disgusting . His manners were those of a ruffian , conscious of the suspicion attend- ing his ...
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Allonby answered appearance astrologer auld Aweel bairn better called Captain castle character Charles Hazlewood Charlie's Hope circumstances Colonel Mannering Counsellor Dandie dear Derncleugh devil 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 Portanferry postilion prisoner recollection replied round ruin scene Scotland seemed Singleside Sir Robert Hazlewood smugglers stranger suppose tell there's thought turned Vanbeest Brown voice Warroch weel window woman wood Woodbourne young Hazlewood young lady younker
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