A Tale of Two Cities, and Sketches by BozEstes and Lauriat, 1880 - 810 pages |
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... observed to be all of a red color , and to have red hair , and to be dressed in some extraordinary tight - fitting fashion , and to have on her head a most wonderful bonnet like a Grenadier wooden measure , and good measure too , or a ...
... observed to be all of a red color , and to have red hair , and to be dressed in some extraordinary tight - fitting fashion , and to have on her head a most wonderful bonnet like a Grenadier wooden measure , and good measure too , or a ...
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... observations , in his own manner , and who had been sucking the rust off his fingers in his absorption , stretched his neck to hear who they were . The crowd about him had pressed and passed the inquiry on to the nearest attendant , and ...
... observations , in his own manner , and who had been sucking the rust off his fingers in his absorption , stretched his neck to hear who they were . The crowd about him had pressed and passed the inquiry on to the nearest attendant , and ...
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Charles Dickens. would not have one . That , Virtue , as had been observed by the poets ( in many passages which he well knew the jury would have , word for word , at the tips of their tongues ; whereat the jury's countenances displayed ...
Charles Dickens. would not have one . That , Virtue , as had been observed by the poets ( in many passages which he well knew the jury would have , word for word , at the tips of their tongues ; whereat the jury's countenances displayed ...
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... observe whether he had any spectre on his conscience . " Truly you did well , " said the Marquis , felicitously sensi- ble that such vermin were not to ruffle him , " to see a thief accompanying my carriage , and not open that great ...
... observe whether he had any spectre on his conscience . " Truly you did well , " said the Marquis , felicitously sensi- ble that such vermin were not to ruffle him , " to see a thief accompanying my carriage , and not open that great ...
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... observed the nephew . " I would not say happily , my friend , " returned the uncle , with refined politeness ; " I would not be sure of that . A good opportunity for consideration , surrounded by the advan- tages of solitude , might ...
... observed the nephew . " I would not say happily , my friend , " returned the uncle , with refined politeness ; " I would not be sure of that . A good opportunity for consideration , surrounded by the advan- tages of solitude , might ...
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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...
Page 650 - A verb is a word which signifies to be, to do, or to suffer ; as, I am — I rule — I am ruled.
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...