A Tale of Two Cities, and Sketches by BozEstes and Lauriat, 1880 - 810 pages |
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... present form . Throughout its execution , it has had complete possession of me ; I have so far verified what is done and suffered in these pages , as that I have certainly done and suffered it all myself . Whenever any reference ...
... present form . Throughout its execution , it has had complete possession of me ; I have so far verified what is done and suffered in these pages , as that I have certainly done and suffered it all myself . Whenever any reference ...
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... present period , that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received , for good or for evil , in the superlative degree of comparison only . There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face , on the ...
... present period , that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received , for good or for evil , in the superlative degree of comparison only . There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face , on the ...
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... present mode . I rever saw the mode . I have had a pattern in my hand . " He glanced at the shoe with some little passing touch of pride . " And the maker's name ? " said Defarge . Now that he had no work to hold , he laid the knuckles ...
... present mode . I rever saw the mode . I have had a pattern in my hand . " He glanced at the shoe with some little passing touch of pride . " And the maker's name ? " said Defarge . Now that he had no work to hold , he laid the knuckles ...
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... present , except the one wigged gentleman who looked at the ceiling , stared at him . All the human breath in the place , rolled at him , like a sea , or a wind , or a fire . Eager faces strained round pillars and corners , to get a ...
... present , except the one wigged gentleman who looked at the ceiling , stared at him . All the human breath in the place , rolled at him , like a sea , or a wind , or a fire . Eager faces strained round pillars and corners , to get a ...
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... the witness , but everybody present , when they were thus brought into comparison . My Lord being prayed to bid my learned friend lay aside his wig , and giving no very gracious consent , the likeness became A DISAPPOINTMENT . 71.
... the witness , but everybody present , when they were thus brought into comparison . My Lord being prayed to bid my learned friend lay aside his wig , and giving no very gracious consent , the likeness became A DISAPPOINTMENT . 71.
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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...