A Tale of Two Cities, and Sketches by BozEstes and Lauriat, 1880 - 810 pages |
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... families were publicly cautioned not to go out of town without removing their furniture to upholsterers ' warehouses for security ; the highwayman in the dark was a 9 City tradesman in the light , and , being 8 A TALE OF TWO CITIES .
... families were publicly cautioned not to go out of town without removing their furniture to upholsterers ' warehouses for security ; the highwayman in the dark was a 9 City tradesman in the light , and , being 8 A TALE OF TWO CITIES .
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... dark , and he sat before the coffee - room fire , awaiting his dinner as he had awaited his breakfast , his mind was ... dark room , furnished in a funereal manner with black horsehair , and loaded with heavy dark tables . These had been ...
... dark , and he sat before the coffee - room fire , awaiting his dinner as he had awaited his breakfast , his mind was ... dark room , furnished in a funereal manner with black horsehair , and loaded with heavy dark tables . These had been ...
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... dark cloud upon you of living in uncertainty whether your father soon wore his heart out in prison , or wasted there through many lingering years . " As he said the words he looked down , with an admiring pity , on the flowing golden ...
... dark cloud upon you of living in uncertainty whether your father soon wore his heart out in prison , or wasted there through many lingering years . " As he said the words he looked down , with an admiring pity , on the flowing golden ...
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... dark hair . He was a dark man altogether , with good eyes and a good bold breadth between them . Good- humored looking on the whole , but implacable - looking , too ; evidently a man of a strong resolution and a set purpose ; a man not ...
... dark hair . He was a dark man altogether , with good eyes and a good bold breadth between them . Good- humored looking on the whole , but implacable - looking , too ; evidently a man of a strong resolution and a set purpose ; a man not ...
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... dark shaft of dirt and poison , the way lay . Yielding to his own disturbance of mind , and to his young companion's agitation , which became greater every instant , Mr. Jarvis Lorry twice stopped to rest . of these stoppages was made ...
... dark shaft of dirt and poison , the way lay . Yielding to his own disturbance of mind , and to his young companion's agitation , which became greater every instant , Mr. Jarvis Lorry twice stopped to rest . of these stoppages was made ...
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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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