A tale of two citiesTicknor and Fields, 1866 |
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... once drawing the coach across the road , with the mutinous intent of taking it back to Blackheath . Reins and whip and coachman and guard , however , in combination , had read that article of war which forbad a purpose other- wise ...
... once drawing the coach across the road , with the mutinous intent of taking it back to Blackheath . Reins and whip and coachman and guard , however , in combination , had read that article of war which forbad a purpose other- wise ...
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... Once more , the Dover mail struggled on , with the jack - boots of its passengers squashing along by its side . They had stopped when the coach stopped , and they kept close company with it . If any one of the three had had the ...
... Once more , the Dover mail struggled on , with the jack - boots of its passengers squashing along by its side . They had stopped when the coach stopped , and they kept close company with it . If any one of the three had had the ...
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... once in sight of three men , whose heads were bent down close together at the side of a door , and who were intently looking into the room to which the door belonged , through some chinks or holes in the wall . On hearing footsteps ...
... once in sight of three men , whose heads were bent down close together at the side of a door , and who were intently looking into the room to which the door belonged , through some chinks or holes in the wall . On hearing footsteps ...
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... once beautiful colour , faded away into a poor weak stain . So sunken and suppressed it was , that it was like a voice underground . So expressive it was , of a hopeless and lost creature , that a famished traveller , wearied out by ...
... once beautiful colour , faded away into a poor weak stain . So sunken and suppressed it was , that it was like a voice underground . So expressive it was , of a hopeless and lost creature , that a famished traveller , wearied out by ...
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... once more bent over the shoe . The look and the action had occupied but an instant . " You have a visitor , you see , " said Monsieur Defarge . " What did you say ? " " Here is a visitor . " The shoemaker looked up as before , but ...
... once more bent over the shoe . The look and the action had occupied but an instant . " You have a visitor , you see , " said Monsieur Defarge . " What did you say ? " " Here is a visitor . " The shoemaker looked up as before , but ...
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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.
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