A Tale of Two Cities, and Sketches by BozEstes and Lauriat, 1880 - 810 pages |
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... Keep where you are , ' the guard 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 ...
... Keep where you are , ' the guard 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 ...
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... keep the flint and steel sparks well off the straw , and get a light with tolerably safety and ease ( if he were lucky ) in five minutes . " Tom ! " softly over the coach - roof . " Hallo , Joe . " 66 Did you 66 hear the message ? " I ...
... keep the flint and steel sparks well off the straw , and get a light with tolerably safety and ease ( if he were lucky ) in five minutes . " Tom ! " softly over the coach - roof . " Hallo , Joe . " 66 Did you 66 hear the message ? " I ...
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... keep his own counsel and to keep his hat cocked over his eyes . He had eyes that assorted very well with that decoration , being of a surface black , with no depth in the color or form , and much too near together - as if they were ...
... keep his own counsel and to keep his hat cocked over his eyes . He had eyes that assorted very well with that decoration , being of a surface black , with no depth in the color or form , and much too near together - as if they were ...
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... keep him from pounding against the next passenger , and driving him into his corner , whenever the coach got a special jolt - nodded in his place , with half - shut eyes , the little coach - windows , and the coach- lamp dimly gleaming ...
... keep him from pounding against the next passenger , and driving him into his corner , whenever the coach got a special jolt - nodded in his place , with half - shut eyes , the little coach - windows , and the coach- lamp dimly gleaming ...
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... keep the unfortunate gentle- man so retired ? " Monsieur Defarge " I think it necessary to turn the key . " whispered it closer in his ear , and frowned heavily . " Why ? " " Why ! Because he has lived so long , locked up , that he ...
... keep the unfortunate gentle- man so retired ? " Monsieur Defarge " I think it necessary to turn the key . " whispered it closer in his ear , and frowned heavily . " Why ? " " Why ! Because he has lived so long , locked up , that he ...
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Alexandre Manette appearance asked Barsad boots captain Carton Charles Darnay child coach cried crowd Cruncher Cymon Tuggs dark daugh daughter dear Dingwall Doctor Manette door dress ejaculated Evrémonde exclaimed eyes face father Fixem Gabriel Parsons gentleman girl glass hair hand head heard hope hour husband inquired Jacques Jerry knew light looked Lorry Lucie Madame Defarge Malderton manner Maplesone Marquis mender of roads mind Miss Brook Miss Lillerton Miss Manette Miss Pross Monseigneur Monsieur morning neckerchief never night Old Bailey parlor passed Percy Noakes person prisoner replied round seated side stairs stood street Stryver Sydney Carton Taunton tell Tellson's thing Thomas Potter thought Tibbs tion took Trott turned voice walked Watkins Tottle whispered wife window wine wine-shop woman words young lady
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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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