 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...  Tale of Two Cities - Page 368by Charles Dickens - 1880Full view - About this book
 | Charles Dickens - 1859 - 188 pages
...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. Twenty-Three....prophetic. One of the most remarkable sufferers by the same axe—a woman—had asked at the foot of the same scaffold, not long before, to be allowed to write... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1860 - 630 pages
...Twenty-Three. They said of him, about the city tiat night, Charles DJckene,] [S'osomlier 2С, 18n.] 95 that it was the peacefulest man's face ever beheld there. Many added that he looked sublimo and prophetie. One of the most remarkable sufferers by the same axe — a woman — had asked... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1861 - 448 pages
...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. Twenty-Three....of him, about the city that night, that it was the peacefullest man's face ever beheld there. Many added that he looked sublime and prophetic. One of... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1868 - 262 pages
...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. Twenty-Three....of him, about the city that night, that it was the peacefullest man's face ever beheld there. Many added that he looked sublime and prophetic. One of... | |
 | Gilbert Ashville Pierce, William Adolphus Wheeler - 1872 - 652 pages
...the crowd so that it swells forward in a mass, like one great heave of water, all flashes away. . . . They said of him about the' city, that night, that...there. Many added that he looked sublime and prophetic. SYDNEY CARTON AND THE SEMPSTRESS. " Its portrayal of the noblp-udturea castaway, Sydney Carton, makes... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1920 - 596 pages
...another friend of Love stood before me. His hair was unkempt, his clothes were torn; but "it was said about the city that night, that it was the peacefulest man's face ever beheld there," so thought I, while I gazed into the eyes of Sydney Carton — eyes filled with the light of sacrifice... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1880 - 864 pages
...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. Twenty-Three....of him, about the city that night, that it was the peacefullest man's face ever beheld there. Many added that he looked sublime and prophetic. One of... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1885 - 844 pages
...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. Twenty-Three....One of the most remarkable sufferers by the same axe — * woman — had asked at the foot of the same scaffold, not long before, to be allowed to wiite... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1890 - 622 pages
...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. Twenty-Three....of him, about the city that night, that it was the peacefullest man's face ever beheld there. Many added that he looked sublime and prophetic. One of... | |
 | Harriet Louise Keeler, Emma C. Davis - 1891 - 232 pages
...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; Twenty-three....of him about the city that night, that it was the peacefullest man's face ever beheld there. Many added that he looked sublime and prophetic. Charles... | |
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