 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...  A Tale of Two Cities, and Sketches by Boz - Page 52by Charles Dickens - 1880 - 810 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Dickens - 1859 - 188 pages
...made your check shake as if the wind rustled it, while they examined the signature by the dingiest of windows, which were always under a shower-bath...Street, and which were made the dingier by their own bars proper, and the heavy shadow of Temple Bar. If your business necessitated yonr seeing " the House."... | |
 | Gilbert Ashville Pierce, William Adolphus Wheeler - 1872 - 652 pages
...they examined your siguature by the dinglest of windows, whleh were always under a shower-bath of mnd from Fleet Street, and which were made the dingier...meditated on a misspent life, until the House came with Us hands in its pockets, and you could hardly blink at it in the dismal twUight. Your money came out... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 604 pages
...while they examined the signature by the dingiest of windows, which were always under a showerbatíi of mud from Fleet Street, and which were made the dingier by their own iron bars and the heavy shadow of Temple Bar. If your business necessitated your seeing ' the House,' you were... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1885 - 844 pages
...the dingiest of windows, which were always under a shower-bath of mud from Fleet-street, and wnich were made the dingier by their own iron bars proper,...you were put into a species of Condemned Hold at the ha-k, where you meditated on a misspent life, until the House came with its hands in its pockets, and... | |
 | 1889 - 680 pages
...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...the dingier by their own iron bars proper and the shadow of Temple Bar." Dickens just lived to see the extraordinary wholesale reformation that took... | |
 | William Mackay (journalist.) - 1913 - 334 pages
...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." The description exactly fits Gosling's before it got itself a new fa9ade and became the mere branch... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1894 - 420 pages
...signature by the dingiest of windows, which were always under a shower-bath of mud from EleeiJjlifieJ^ and which, were made the dingier by their own iron...Temple Bar. If your business necessitated your seeing " theJEIouse," you were put into a species of Condemned Hold at the back, where you meditated on a... | |
 | Robert Allbut - 1899 - 262 pages
...as if the wind rustled it, while FOUNTAIN COURT, TEMPLE. they examined the signature by the dingiest of windows, which were always under a shower-bath...the dingier by their own iron bars proper and the shadow of Temple Bar." Passing Newton's (optician) we arrive at the outer Gate of the Temple, by which... | |
 | Gilbert Ashville Pierce - 1900 - 796 pages
...tbo wind rustled it, while they examined your signature by tbe dlua Sale of zrtno «lUe». 413 glest of windows, which were always under a shower-bath...House," you were put Into a species of condemned hold at tho back, where yon meditated on a misspent life, until the House came with Its hands In its pockets,... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1906 - 532 pages
...made your checjue shake as if the wind rustled it, while they examined the signature by the dingiest of windows, which were always under a shower-bath...a species of Condemned Hold at the back, where you med^ vrtated on a misspent life, until the House came with its hands in its pockets, and you could... | |
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