Peveril of the Peak, Volume 2James Crissy, 1826 - Great Britain |
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Page 61
... strangers , seamen , and mercantile people , all in- tent upon their own affairs , and discussing them with noise and eagerness , peculiar to the business of a thriving sea - port . But although the general clamour of the public room ...
... strangers , seamen , and mercantile people , all in- tent upon their own affairs , and discussing them with noise and eagerness , peculiar to the business of a thriving sea - port . But although the general clamour of the public room ...
Page 63
... stranger to buy a horse for the pur- pose of a single journey , and to sell him , as well as he could , when he had reached the point of his destination ; and hence there was a constant demand , and a corresponding supply ; upon both of ...
... stranger to buy a horse for the pur- pose of a single journey , and to sell him , as well as he could , when he had reached the point of his destination ; and hence there was a constant demand , and a corresponding supply ; upon both of ...
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Walter Scott. had a conciliating and obliging tendency towards the stranger , Peveril concluded he was one of those idle persons , who , unable or unwilling to supply themselves with means of indulgence at their own cost , are not ...
Walter Scott. had a conciliating and obliging tendency towards the stranger , Peveril concluded he was one of those idle persons , who , unable or unwilling to supply themselves with means of indulgence at their own cost , are not ...
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... stranger to purchase a gray horse , much inferior , indeed , to that which he had resigned , both in form and in action , but very little lower in price , as Mr. Bridlesley , immediately on learning the de- mand for the horse upon the ...
... stranger to purchase a gray horse , much inferior , indeed , to that which he had resigned , both in form and in action , but very little lower in price , as Mr. Bridlesley , immediately on learning the de- mand for the horse upon the ...
Page 68
... stranger - entirely a stran- ger - never saw him before - a wild young colt , I warrant him ; and knows a horse's mouth as well as I do . " " I begin to bethink me I saw such a face as his at the Jesuits ' consult , in the White Horse ...
... stranger - entirely a stran- ger - never saw him before - a wild young colt , I warrant him ; and knows a horse's mouth as well as I do . " " I begin to bethink me I saw such a face as his at the Jesuits ' consult , in the White Horse ...
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Page 194 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.