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  • You and I must try to get hold of one or two and put them into our novels: [1] it would be a fine help to a volume, and we could make our heroine read it aloud on a Sunday evening, just as well as Isabella Wardour in the 'Antiquary' is made to read the 'History of the Hartz Demon,' in the ruins of St. Ruth, though I believe, on recollection, Lovell is the reader.

    Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends 1901

  • The Antiquary was a gentleman, as we have seen, in feeling, but blunt and careless in expression, from the habit of living with those before whom he had nothing to suppress.

    The Antiquary 1845

  • The Antiquary is a frequent visitor at Knockwinnock and

    The Antiquary 1845

  • The Antiquary is a frequent visitor at Knockwinnock and Glenallan House, ostensibly for the sake of completing two essays, one on the mail-shirt of the Great Earl, and the other on the left-hand gauntlet of

    The Antiquary — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801

  • The Antiquary was a gentleman, as we have seen, in feeling, but blunt and careless in expression, from the habit of living with those before whom he had nothing to suppress.

    The Antiquary — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801

  • The Antiquary is a frequent visitor at Knockwinnock and Glenallan House, ostensibly for the sake of completing two essays, one on the mail-shirt of the Great Earl, and the other on the left-hand gauntlet of

    The Antiquary — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • The Antiquary was a gentleman, as we have seen, in feeling, but blunt and careless in expression, from the habit of living with those before whom he had nothing to suppress.

    The Antiquary — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • The Antiquary is a frequent visitor at Knockwinnock and Glenallan

    The Antiquary 1584

  • The Antiquary was a gentleman, as we have seen, in feeling, but blunt and careless in expression, from the habit of living with those before whom he had nothing to suppress.

    The Antiquary 1584

  • Dr. Gross's valuable contribution to the "Antiquary" (1885), treating of the affiliation of towns, is of a general character, and illustrated largely by continental examples; anyone, however, who wishes to grasp the full significance of mediæval relationships as between town and town, will be well advised in consulting that succinct account.

    The Customs of Old England

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