A tale of two citiesTicknor and Fields, 1866 |
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Page 72
... Stryver ( the prisoner's counsel ) , whether they were next to try Mr. Carton ( name of my learned friend ) for treason ? But , Mr. Stryver replied to my Lord , no ; but he would ask the witness to tell him whether what happened once ...
... Stryver ( the prisoner's counsel ) , whether they were next to try Mr. Carton ( name of my learned friend ) for treason ? But , Mr. Stryver replied to my Lord , no ; but he would ask the witness to tell him whether what happened once ...
Page 73
... Stryver then called his few witnesses , and Mr. Cruncher had next to attend while Mr. Attorney - General turned the whole suit of clothes Mr. Stryver had fitted on the jury , inside out ; showing how Barsad and Cly were even a hundred ...
... Stryver then called his few witnesses , and Mr. Cruncher had next to attend while Mr. Attorney - General turned the whole suit of clothes Mr. Stryver had fitted on the jury , inside out ; showing how Barsad and Cly were even a hundred ...
Page 76
... Stryver , stood gathered around Mr. Charles Darnay - just released - congratulating him on his escape from death . It would have been difficult by a far brighter light , to re- cognise in Doctor Manette , intellectual of face and ...
... Stryver , stood gathered around Mr. Charles Darnay - just released - congratulating him on his escape from death . It would have been difficult by a far brighter light , to re- cognise in Doctor Manette , intellectual of face and ...
Page 77
... Stryver , whom he warmly thanked . Mr. Stryver , a man of little more than thirty , but looking twenty years older than he was , stout , loud , red , bluff , and free from any drawback of delicacy , had a pushing way of shouldering ...
... Stryver , whom he warmly thanked . Mr. Stryver , a man of little more than thirty , but looking twenty years older than he was , stout , loud , red , bluff , and free from any drawback of delicacy , had a pushing way of shouldering ...
Page 78
... Stryver had left them in the passages , to shoulder his way back to the robing - room . Another person who had not joined the group , or interchanged a word with any one of them , but who had been leaning against the wall where its ...
... Stryver had left them in the passages , to shoulder his way back to the robing - room . Another person who had not joined the group , or interchanged a word with any one of them , but who had been leaning against the wall where its ...
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Page 377 - I am the Resurrection and the Life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
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Page 283 - In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease - a terrible passing inclination to die of it.
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