Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day PeopleJ.B.Lippincott & Company, 1885 |
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... poor man with small earnings , and a large family , just manages to live on from hand to mouth , and to procure food from day to day ; he has barely sufficient to satisfy the present cravings of nature , and can take no heed of the ...
... poor man with small earnings , and a large family , just manages to live on from hand to mouth , and to procure food from day to day ; he has barely sufficient to satisfy the present cravings of nature , and can take no heed of the ...
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... poor laws to the deaf old women in the board - room - pas- sage on business nights ; and to hear what he said to the senior churchwarden , and what the senior church- warden said to him ; and what " we " ( the beadle and the other ...
... poor laws to the deaf old women in the board - room - pas- sage on business nights ; and to hear what he said to the senior churchwarden , and what the senior church- warden said to him ; and what " we " ( the beadle and the other ...
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... poor peo- ple , who bow and curtsy until the pew - opener has ushered the old lady into her accustomed seat , dropped a respectful curtsy , and shut the door : and the cere- mony is repeated on her leaving church , when she walks home ...
... poor peo- ple , who bow and curtsy until the pew - opener has ushered the old lady into her accustomed seat , dropped a respectful curtsy , and shut the door : and the cere- mony is repeated on her leaving church , when she walks home ...
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... poor man could have been actuated , or by what process of reasoning the four Miss Willises suc- ceeded in persuading themselves that it was possible for a man to marry one of them , without marrying them all , are questions too profound ...
... poor man could have been actuated , or by what process of reasoning the four Miss Willises suc- ceeded in persuading themselves that it was possible for a man to marry one of them , without marrying them all , are questions too profound ...
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... poor's - rates - all sorts of rates , have been in their turns the subjects of a grand struggle ; and as to questions of patronage , the asperity and determi- nation with which they have been contested is scarcely credible . The leader ...
... poor's - rates - all sorts of rates , have been in their turns the subjects of a grand struggle ; and as to questions of patronage , the asperity and determi- nation with which they have been contested is scarcely credible . The leader ...
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