A Tale of Two Cities, and Sketches by BozEstes and Lauriat, 1880 - 810 pages |
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... thought it quite hope- less , but I have unquestionably seen , for a single moment , the face that I once knew so well . Hush ! Let us draw further back . Hush ! " She had moved from the wall of the garret , very near to the bench on ...
... thought it quite hope- less , but I have unquestionably seen , for a single moment , the face that I once knew so well . Hush ! Let us draw further back . Hush ! " She had moved from the wall of the garret , very near to the bench on ...
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... thought of the infamy and disgrace for which it had been reserved , may have struck the prisoner's mind . Be that as it may , a change in his posi- tion making him conscious of a bar of light across his face , he looked up ; and when he ...
... thought of the infamy and disgrace for which it had been reserved , may have struck the prisoner's mind . Be that as it may , a change in his posi- tion making him conscious of a bar of light across his face , he looked up ; and when he ...
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... thought them , and the pris- oner a hundred times worse . Lastly , came my Lord himself , turning the suit of clothes , now inside out , now outside in , but on the whole decidedly trimming and shaping them into grave - clothes for the ...
... thought them , and the pris- oner a hundred times worse . Lastly , came my Lord himself , turning the suit of clothes , now inside out , now outside in , but on the whole decidedly trimming and shaping them into grave - clothes for the ...
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... it's all one ! " " That was a rare point , Sydney , that you brought to bear upon the identification . How did you come by it ? When did it strike you ? " " I thought he was rather a handsome fellow , THE JACKAL . 83.
... it's all one ! " " That was a rare point , Sydney , that you brought to bear upon the identification . How did you come by it ? When did it strike you ? " " I thought he was rather a handsome fellow , THE JACKAL . 83.
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Charles Dickens. " I thought he was rather a handsome fellow , and I thought I should have been much the same sort of fellow , if I had had any luck . " Mr. Stryver laughed till he shook his precocious paunch . " You and your luck ...
Charles Dickens. " I thought he was rather a handsome fellow , and I thought I should have been much the same sort of fellow , if I had had any luck . " Mr. Stryver laughed till he shook his precocious paunch . " You and your luck ...
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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...