A Tale of Two Cities, and Sketches by BozEstes and Lauriat, 1880 - 810 pages |
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... stood on his own particular perch behind the mail , beating his feet , and keeping an eye and a hand on the arm - chest before him , where a loacel blunderbuss lay at the top of six or eight loaded horse - pistols , deposited on a ...
... stood on his own particular perch behind the mail , beating his feet , and keeping an eye and a hand on the arm - chest before him , where a loacel blunderbuss lay at the top of six or eight loaded horse - pistols , deposited on a ...
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... stood on the offensive . The passenger booked by this history , was on the coach- step , getting in ; the two other passengers were close behind him , and about to follow . He remained on the step , half in the coach and half out of ...
... stood on the offensive . The passenger booked by this history , was on the coach- step , getting in ; the two other passengers were close behind him , and about to follow . He remained on the step , half in the coach and half out of ...
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... stood . The rider stooped , and , casting up his eyes at the guard , handed the passenger a small folded paper . The rider's horse was blown , and both horse and rider were covered with mud , from the hoofs of the horse to the hat of ...
... stood . The rider stooped , and , casting up his eyes at the guard , handed the passenger a small folded paper . The rider's horse was blown , and both horse and rider were covered with mud , from the hoofs of the horse to the hat of ...
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... stood in ignorance on the shore . My friend is dead , my neighbor is dead , my love , the darling of my soul , is dead ; it is the inexorable consolidation and perpetuation of the secret that was always in that individuality , and which ...
... stood in ignorance on the shore . My friend is dead , my neighbor is dead , my love , the darling of my soul , is dead ; it is the inexorable consolidation and perpetuation of the secret that was always in that individuality , and which ...
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... stood surveying the guest while he ate and drank , as from an observatory or watch - tower . According to the immemorial usage of waiters in all ages . When Mr. Lorry had finished his breakfast , he went out for a stroll on the beach ...
... stood surveying the guest while he ate and drank , as from an observatory or watch - tower . According to the immemorial usage of waiters in all ages . When Mr. Lorry had finished his breakfast , he went out for a stroll on the beach ...
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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...