A Tale of Two Cities, and Sketches by BozEstes and Lauriat, 1880 - 810 pages |
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... called from the mist , " Is that the Dover mail ? " " Never you mind what it is ? " the guard retorted . " What are you ? " " Is that the Dover mail ? " " Why do you want to know ? ” " I want a passenger , if it is . " " What passenger ...
... called from the mist , " Is that the Dover mail ? " " Never you mind what it is ? " the guard retorted . " What are you ? " " Is that the Dover mail ? " " Why do you want to know ? ” " I want a passenger , if it is . " " What passenger ...
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... called to the voice in the mist , " because , if I should make a mistake , it could never be set right in your lifetime . Gentleman of the name of Lorry answer straight . " " What is the matter ? " asked the passenger , then , with ...
... called to the voice in the mist , " because , if I should make a mistake , it could never be set right in your lifetime . Gentleman of the name of Lorry answer straight . " " What is the matter ? " asked the passenger , then , with ...
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... called out loudly for assistance without moving . A wild - looking woman , whom even in his agitation , Mr. Lorry observed to be all of a red color , and to have red hair , and to be dressed in some extraordinary tight - fitting fashion ...
... called out loudly for assistance without moving . A wild - looking woman , whom even in his agitation , Mr. Lorry observed to be all of a red color , and to have red hair , and to be dressed in some extraordinary tight - fitting fashion ...
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... called to him across the way : " Say , then , my Gaspard , what do you do there ? " The fellow pointed to his joke with immense significance , as is often the way with his tribe . It missed its mark , and completely failed , as is often ...
... called to him across the way : " Say , then , my Gaspard , what do you do there ? " The fellow pointed to his joke with immense significance , as is often the way with his tribe . It missed its mark , and completely failed , as is often ...
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... called Life must hush at last - they came forward to raise the father and daugh- ter from the ground . He had gradually dropped to the floor , and lay there in a lethargy , worn out . She had nestled down with him , that his head might ...
... called Life must hush at last - they came forward to raise the father and daugh- ter from the ground . He had gradually dropped to the floor , and lay there in a lethargy , worn out . She had nestled down with him , that his head might ...
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Page 351 - 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." The murmuring of many voices, the upturning of many faces, the pressing on of many footsteps in the outskirts of the crowd, so that it swells forward in a mass, like one great heave of water, all flashes away.
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Page 52 - Tellson's down two steps, and came to your senses in a miserable little shop, with two little counters, where the oldest of men made your cheque shake as if the wind rustled it, while they examined the signature by the dingiest of windows, which were always under a shower-bath of mud from Fleet Street, and which were made the dingier by their own iron bars proper, and the heavy shadow of Temple Bar. If your business necessitated your seeing "the House...
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Page 816 - And now the long-forgotten scenes of a misspent life crowded thick and fast upon him. He thought of the time when he had a home — a happy, cheerful home — and of those who peopled it, and flocked about him then, until the forms of his elder...