A Tale of Two Cities, and Sketches by BozEstes and Lauriat, 1880 - 810 pages |
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... Light , it was the season of Darkness , it was the spring of hope , it was the winter of despair , we had everything before us , we had nothing before us , we were all going direct to Heaven , we were all going direct the other way - in ...
... Light , it was the season of Darkness , it was the spring of hope , it was the winter of despair , we had everything before us , we had nothing before us , we were all going direct to Heaven , we were all going direct the other way - in ...
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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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... light of the coach - lamps but these its own workings , and a few yards of road ; and the reek of the labor- ing horses steamed into it , as if they had made it all . Two other passengers , besides the one , were plodding up the hill by ...
... light of the coach - lamps but these its own workings , and a few yards of road ; and the reek of the labor- ing horses steamed into it , as if they had made it all . Two other passengers , besides the one , were plodding up the hill by ...
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... light of the coach - lamp on that side , and read - first to himself and then aloud : ' Wait at Dover for Mam'selle . ' It's not long , you see , guard . Jerry , say that my answer was , RECALLED TO LIFE . " Jerry started in his saddle ...
... light of the coach - lamp on that side , and read - first to himself and then aloud : ' Wait at Dover for Mam'selle . ' It's not long , you see , guard . Jerry , say that my answer was , RECALLED TO LIFE . " Jerry started in his saddle ...
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... lights glanced into it , I have had glimpses of buried treasure and other things submerged . It was appointed that the ... light was playing on its surface , and I stood in ignorance on the shore . My friend is dead , my neighbor is dead ...
... lights glanced into it , I have had glimpses of buried treasure and other things submerged . It was appointed that the ... light was playing on its surface , and I stood in ignorance on the shore . My friend is dead , my neighbor is dead ...
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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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