A Tale of Two Cities, and Sketches by BozEstes and Lauriat, 1880 - 810 pages |
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... opened it in the 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 ...
... opened it in the 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 ...
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... opened before him , and he went in among them with the great keys and the feebly - burning candle , and found them safe , and strong , and sound , and still just as he had last seen them . But though the bank was almost always with him ...
... opened before him , and he went in among them with the great keys and the feebly - burning candle , and found them safe , and strong , and sound , and still just as he had last seen them . But though the bank was almost always with him ...
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... opened on the mist and rain , on the moving patch of light from the lamps , and the hedge at the roadside retreating by jerks , the night shadows outside the coach would fall into the train of the night shadows with- in . The real ...
... opened on the mist and rain , on the moving patch of light from the lamps , and the hedge at the roadside retreating by jerks , the night shadows outside the coach would fall into the train of the night shadows with- in . The real ...
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... opened the coach - door as his custom was . He did it with some flour- ish of ceremony , for a mail journey from London in winter was an achievement to congratulate an adventurous traveller upon . By that time there was only one ...
... opened the coach - door as his custom was . He did it with some flour- ish of ceremony , for a mail journey from London in winter was an achievement to congratulate an adventurous traveller upon . By that time there was only one ...
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... opened his hands , and extended them outwards with an argumentative smile . Between the eyebrows and just over the little feminine nose , the line of which was as delicate and fine as it was pos- sible to be , the expression deepened ...
... opened his hands , and extended them outwards with an argumentative smile . Between the eyebrows and just over the little feminine nose , the line of which was as delicate and fine as it was pos- sible to be , the expression deepened ...
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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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