A Tale of Two Cities, and Sketches by BozEstes and Lauriat, 1880 - 810 pages |
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... crowd , according to its size . Some men kneeled down , made scoops of their two hands joined , and sipped , or tried to help women , who bent over their shoulders , to sip , before the wine had all run out between their fingers ...
... crowd , according to its size . Some men kneeled down , made scoops of their two hands joined , and sipped , or tried to help women , who bent over their shoulders , to sip , before the wine had all run out between their fingers ...
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... crowd was about the door : no people were discernible at any of the many windows ; not even a chance passer - by was ... crowds , illuminated coffee - houses , and theatre - doors , to one of the city gates . Soldiers with lanterns , at ...
... crowd was about the door : no people were discernible at any of the many windows ; not even a chance passer - by was ... crowds , illuminated coffee - houses , and theatre - doors , to one of the city gates . Soldiers with lanterns , at ...
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... crowd , dispersed up and down this hideous scene of action , with the skill of a man accustomed to make his way quietly , the messenger found out the door he sought , and handed in his letter through a trap in it . For , people then ...
... crowd , dispersed up and down this hideous scene of action , with the skill of a man accustomed to make his way quietly , the messenger found out the door he sought , and handed in his letter through a trap in it . For , people then ...
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... prisoner's head there was a mirror , to throw the light down upon him . Crowds of the wicked and the wretched had been reflected in it , and had passed from its surface and this earth's together . Haunted in a most ghastly manner A SIGHT ...
... prisoner's head there was a mirror , to throw the light down upon him . Crowds of the wicked and the wretched had been reflected in it , and had passed from its surface and this earth's together . Haunted in a most ghastly manner A SIGHT ...
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... crowd about him had pressed and passed the inquiry on to the nearest attendant , and from him it had been more slowly pressed and passed back ; at last it got to Jerry . 66 " Witnesses . " " For which side ? " 66 66 ' Against ...
... crowd about him had pressed and passed the inquiry on to the nearest attendant , and from him it had been more slowly pressed and passed back ; at last it got to Jerry . 66 " Witnesses . " " For which side ? " 66 66 ' Against ...
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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 352 - 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 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...