A tale of two citiesTicknor and Fields, 1866 |
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... manner with black horsehair , and loaded with heavy dark tables . These had been oiled and oiled , until the two tall candles on the table in the middle of the room were gloomily reflected on every leaf ; as if they were buried , in ...
... manner with black horsehair , and loaded with heavy dark tables . These had been oiled and oiled , until the two tall candles on the table in the middle of the room were gloomily reflected on every leaf ; as if they were buried , in ...
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... manner was less satisfied than his words . ) " A matter of business . Regard it as a matter of business - business that must be done . Now , if this Doctor's wife , though a lady of great courage and spirit , had suffered so intensely ...
... manner was less satisfied than his words . ) " A matter of business . Regard it as a matter of business - business that must be done . Now , if this Doctor's wife , though a lady of great courage and spirit , had suffered so intensely ...
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... manner overhead , as if they were at sea . Indeed they were at sea , and the ship and crew were in peril of tem- pest . For , the time was to come , when the gaunt scarecrows of that region should have watched the lamplighter , in their ...
... manner overhead , as if they were at sea . Indeed they were at sea , and the ship and crew were in peril of tem- pest . For , the time was to come , when the gaunt scarecrows of that region should have watched the lamplighter , in their ...
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... manner . There was a character about Madame Defarge , from which one might have predicated that she did not often make mistakes against herself in any of the reckonings over which she pre- sided . Madame Defarge being sensitive to cold ...
... manner . There was a character about Madame Defarge , from which one might have predicated that she did not often make mistakes against herself in any of the reckonings over which she pre- sided . Madame Defarge being sensitive to cold ...
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... manner round the wine - shop , took up her knitting with great apparent calmness and repose of spirit , and became absorbed in it . " Gentlemen , " said her husband , who had kept his bright eye observantly upon her , " good day . The ...
... manner round the wine - shop , took up her knitting with great apparent calmness and repose of spirit , and became absorbed in it . " Gentlemen , " said her husband , who had kept his bright eye observantly upon her , " good day . The ...
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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.
Page 379 - It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done ; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.
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.
Page 1 - IT was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair...