A Tale of Two Cities, and Sketches by BozEstes and Lauriat, 1880 - 810 pages |
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... wife , though a lady of great courage and spirit , had suffered so intensely from this cause before her little child was born- 99 " The little child was a daughter , sir . " " A daughter . A - a - matter of business - don't be dis ...
... wife , though a lady of great courage and spirit , had suffered so intensely from this cause before her little child was born- 99 " The little child was a daughter , sir . " " A daughter . A - a - matter of business - don't be dis ...
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... wife , sat in the shop behind the counter as he came in . Madame Defarge was a stout woman of about his own age , with a watchful eye that seldom seemed to look at anything , a large hand heavily ringed , a steady face , strong features ...
... wife , sat in the shop behind the counter as he came in . Madame Defarge was a stout woman of about his own age , with a watchful eye that seldom seemed to look at anything , a large hand heavily ringed , a steady face , strong features ...
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... wife at her knitting when the elderly gentleman advanced from his corner , and begged the favor of a word . " Willingly , sir , " said Monsieur Defarge , and quietly went with him to the door . Their conference was very short , but very ...
... wife at her knitting when the elderly gentleman advanced from his corner , and begged the favor of a word . " Willingly , sir , " said Monsieur Defarge , and quietly went with him to the door . Their conference was very short , but very ...
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... wife , and this poor boy had had any but a unnat'ral mother , I might have made some money last week instead of being coun- terprayed and countermined and religiously circumwented into the worst of luck . B - u - u - ust me ! " said Mr ...
... wife , and this poor boy had had any but a unnat'ral mother , I might have made some money last week instead of being coun- terprayed and countermined and religiously circumwented into the worst of luck . B - u - u - ust me ! " said Mr ...
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... wife included , looked down upon him with the loftiest contempt . A sumptuous man was the Farmer - General . Thirty horses stood in his stables , twenty - four male domestics sat in his halls , six body - women waited on his wife . As ...
... wife included , looked down upon him with the loftiest contempt . A sumptuous man was the Farmer - General . Thirty horses stood in his stables , twenty - four male domestics sat in his halls , six body - women waited on his wife . As ...
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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...