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One is a plain Liddesdale sheep-farmer, called Dinmont of Charlies-hope; but he knows nothing more of me than what I told him, and what I now tell you.
Chapter XLIII 1917
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'One is a plain Liddesdale sheep - farmer, called Dinmont of Charlie's Hope; but he knows nothing more of me than what I told him, and what I now tell you.'
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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'One is a plain Liddesdale sheep - farmer, called Dinmont of Charlie's Hope; but he knows nothing more of me than what I told him, and what I now tell you.'
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801
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I did not myself know till very lately the root of Dandie Dinmont's name -- "Dinmont," a two-year-old sheep; still less that of Moniplies, which I had been always content to take Master George Heriot's rendering of: "This fellow is not ill-named -- he has more plies than one in his cloak."
On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859
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‘One is a plain Liddesdale sheep-farmer, called Dinmont of Charlie’s Hope; but he knows nothing more of me than what I told him, and what I now tell you.’
Guy Mannering 1815
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Just how the children cope with the sense of apartness and difference imposed by the adults is effortlessly revealed by Rosamond Lehmann and her clever use of the posh but marauding canine go-between, a Dandy Dinmont dog.
Rosamond Lehmann 2007
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Just how the children cope with the sense of apartness and difference imposed by the adults is effortlessly revealed by Rosamond Lehmann and her clever use of the posh but marauding canine go-between, a Dandy Dinmont dog.
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Just how the children cope with the sense of apartness and difference imposed by the adults is effortlessly revealed by Rosamond Lehmann and her clever use of the posh but marauding canine go-between, a Dandy Dinmont dog.
Rosamond Lehmann 2007
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Dinmont vacuousness, overseen by an estranged dairy farm dog that stayed.
Their Dog – In 2D Ivan Donn Carswell 2008
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Among his characters, were those of Dandie Dinmont in
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