Novels and Miscellaneous Works: With Prefaces and Notes, Including Those Attributed to Sir Walter Scott, Volume 4G. Bell and Sons, 1724 |
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Page 12
... opened the door , and they came directly into the room where I was , and where they found me in that posture , and crying vehemently , as above . I was surprised at their coming , you may be sure , especially seeing the person I had but ...
... opened the door , and they came directly into the room where I was , and where they found me in that posture , and crying vehemently , as above . I was surprised at their coming , you may be sure , especially seeing the person I had but ...
Page 56
... opened into a narrow dark alley , which alley was a thoroughfare or passage out of one street into another ; and any person that went in or out by the door had no more to do but to see that there was no- body following him in the alley ...
... opened into a narrow dark alley , which alley was a thoroughfare or passage out of one street into another ; and any person that went in or out by the door had no more to do but to see that there was no- body following him in the alley ...
Page 60
... opened with folding - doors into his bedchamber . He sat as one astonished a good while , looking at me , without speaking a word , till I came quite up to him , kneeled on one knee to him , and almost , whether he would or no , kissed ...
... opened with folding - doors into his bedchamber . He sat as one astonished a good while , looking at me , without speaking a word , till I came quite up to him , kneeled on one knee to him , and almost , whether he would or no , kissed ...
Page 108
... opened the great cabin door , and looked into the steerage to cry for help , but there , to increase my fright , was two seamen on their knees at prayers , and only one man who steered , and he made a groaning noise too , which I took ...
... opened the great cabin door , and looked into the steerage to cry for help , but there , to increase my fright , was two seamen on their knees at prayers , and only one man who steered , and he made a groaning noise too , which I took ...
Page 118
... opened , as he was wishing it would , just opposite to my lodging - room , so we could almost call out of bed to one another ; and I was not at all shy of him on that score , for I believed him perfectly honest , and so indeed he was ...
... opened , as he was wishing it would , just opposite to my lodging - room , so we could almost call out of bed to one another ; and I was not at all shy of him on that score , for I believed him perfectly honest , and so indeed he was ...
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