Tale of Two CitiesHoughton, Osgood, 1880 |
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... hair , standing jaggedly all over it , and growing down- hill almost to his broad , blunt nose . It was so like smith's work , so much more like the top of a strongly spiked wall than a head of hair , that the best of players at leap ...
... hair , standing jaggedly all over it , and growing down- hill almost to his broad , blunt nose . It was so like smith's work , so much more like the top of a strongly spiked wall than a head of hair , that the best of players at leap ...
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... hair , he would suddenly fall away to dust . The passenger would then start to himself , and lower the window , to get the reality of mist and rain on his cheek . Yet even when his eyes were opened on the mist and rain , on the moving ...
... hair , he would suddenly fall away to dust . The passenger would then start to himself , and lower the window , to get the reality of mist and rain on his cheek . Yet even when his eyes were opened on the mist and rain , on the moving ...
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... hair , but which looked far more as though it were spun from filaments of silk or glass . His linen , though not of a fineness in accordance with his stockings , was as white as the tops of the waves that broke upon the neighbouring ...
... hair , but which looked far more as though it were spun from filaments of silk or glass . His linen , though not of a fineness in accordance with his stockings , was as white as the tops of the waves that broke upon the neighbouring ...
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... hair , a pair of blue eyes that met his own . with an inquiring look , and a forehead with a singular capa- city ( remembering how young and smooth it was ) , of lifting and knitting itself into an expression that was not quite one of ...
... hair , a pair of blue eyes that met his own . with an inquiring look , and a forehead with a singular capa- city ( remembering how young and smooth it was ) , of lifting and knitting itself into an expression that was not quite one of ...
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... hair ; as if he pictured to himself that it might have been already tinged with grey . " You know that your parents had no great possession , and that what they had was secured to your mother and to you . There has been no new discovery ...
... hair ; as if he pictured to himself that it might have been already tinged with grey . " You know that your parents had no great possession , and that what they had was secured to your mother and to you . There has been no new discovery ...
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Page ix - Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Page 369 - 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 6 - A WONDERFUL fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!
Page 368 - 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. TwentyThree. They said of him, about the city that night, that it was the peacefulest man's face ever beheld there. Many added that he looked sublime and prophetic.
Page 363 - Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seed of rapacious license and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.
Page 306 - 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.
Page 273 - In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease - a terrible passing inclination to die of it.
Page xix - IT was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair...