A Tale of Two Cities, and Sketches by BozEstes and Lauriat, 1880 - 810 pages |
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... dear book that I loved , and vainly hope in time to read it all . No more can I look into the depths of this unfathomable water , wherein , as momentary lights glanced into it , I have had glimpses of buried treasure and other things ...
... dear book that I loved , and vainly hope in time to read it all . No more can I look into the depths of this unfathomable water , wherein , as momentary lights glanced into it , I have had glimpses of buried treasure and other things ...
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... dear , my dear ! " me . His cold white head mingled with her radiant hair , which warmed and lighted it as though it were the light of Freedom shining on him . " If you hear in my voice - I don't know that it is so , but I hope it is ...
... dear , my dear ! " me . His cold white head mingled with her radiant hair , which warmed and lighted it as though it were the light of Freedom shining on him . " If you hear in my voice - I don't know that it is so , but I hope it is ...
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... dear old institution , very humanizing and soften- ing to behold in action ; also , for extensive transactions in blood - money , another fragment of ancestral wisdom , system- atically leading to the most frightful mercenary crimes ...
... dear old institution , very humanizing and soften- ing to behold in action ; also , for extensive transactions in blood - money , another fragment of ancestral wisdom , system- atically leading to the most frightful mercenary crimes ...
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... that whenever her original proposi- tion was questioned , she exaggerated it . " Dear me thin !: of . said Mr. Lorry , as the safest remark he could " I have lived with the darling or the darling ༡༠ A TALE OF TWO CITIES .
... that whenever her original proposi- tion was questioned , she exaggerated it . " Dear me thin !: of . said Mr. Lorry , as the safest remark he could " I have lived with the darling or the darling ༡༠ A TALE OF TWO CITIES .
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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.
Page 754 - My very noble and approved good masters, That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter, It is most true ; true, I have married her : The very head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech, And little bless'd with the soft phrase of peace ; For since these arms of mine had seven years...
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...