A Tale of Two Cities, and Sketches by BozEstes and Lauriat, 1880 - 810 pages |
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... round dozen of years after rapping out its messages , as the spirits of this very year last past ( supernaturally deficient in originality ) rapped out theirs . Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to the English ...
... round dozen of years after rapping out its messages , as the spirits of this very year last past ( supernaturally deficient in originality ) rapped out theirs . Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to the English ...
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... round the daughter's waist , and held her ; for he felt that she was sinking . “ A — a — a — business , business ! " he urged , with a moist- ure that was not of business shining on his cheek . " Come in , come in ! " 66 " I am afraid ...
... round the daughter's waist , and held her ; for he felt that she was sinking . “ A — a — a — business , business ! " he urged , with a moist- ure that was not of business shining on his cheek . " Come in , come in ! " 66 " I am afraid ...
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... round the neck , and rocked him on her breast like a child . " If , when I tell you , dearest dear , that your agony is over , and that I have come here to take you from it , and that we 47 go to England to be at peace and at 46 A TALE ...
... round the neck , and rocked him on her breast like a child . " If , when I tell you , dearest dear , that your agony is over , and that I have come here to take you from it , and that we 47 go to England to be at peace and at 46 A TALE ...
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... round pillars and corners , to get a sight of him ; spectators in back rows stood up , not to miss a hair of him ; people on the floor of the court , laid their hands on the shoul- ders of the people before them , to help themselves ...
... round pillars and corners , to get a sight of him ; spectators in back rows stood up , not to miss a hair of him ; people on the floor of the court , laid their hands on the shoul- ders of the people before them , to help themselves ...
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... prisoner's head was taken off . That head Mr. Attorney - General concluded by demanding of them , in the name of everything he could think of with a round turn in it , and on the faith of his solemn 64 A TALE OF TWO CITIES .
... prisoner's head was taken off . That head Mr. Attorney - General concluded by demanding of them , in the name of everything he could think of with a round turn in it , and on the faith of his solemn 64 A TALE OF TWO CITIES .
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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...
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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...