The Works of Charles Dickens, Volume 21Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1898 |
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... than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes , that things in general were settled for ever . B It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven BOOK THE FIRST RECALLED TO LIFE CHAPTER I The Period.
... than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes , that things in general were settled for ever . B It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven BOOK THE FIRST RECALLED TO LIFE CHAPTER I The Period.
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... things , and a thousand like them , came to pass in and close upon the dear old year one thousand seven hundred and seventy - five . Environed by them , while the Woodman and the Farmer worked unheeded , those two of the large jaws ...
... things , and a thousand like them , came to pass in and close upon the dear old year one thousand seven hundred and seventy - five . Environed by them , while the Woodman and the Farmer worked unheeded , those two of the large jaws ...
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... thing upon the cards . So the guard of the Dover mail thought to himself , that Friday night in November , one thousand seven hundred and seventy- > five , lumbering up Shooter's Hill , as he stood on his own particular perch behind the ...
... thing upon the cards . So the guard of the Dover mail thought to himself , that Friday night in November , one thousand seven hundred and seventy- > five , lumbering up Shooter's Hill , as he stood on his own particular perch behind the ...
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... things submerged . It was appointed that the book should shut with a spring , for ever and for ever , when I had read but a page . It was appointed that the water should be locked in an eternal frost , when the light was playing on its ...
... things submerged . It was appointed that the book should shut with a spring , for ever and for ever , when I had read but a page . It was appointed that the water should be locked in an eternal frost , when the light was playing on its ...
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... things , a sudden vivid likeness passed before him , of a child whom he had held in his arms on the passage across that very Channel , one cold time , when the hail drifted heavily and the sea ran high . The likeness passed away , like ...
... things , a sudden vivid likeness passed before him , of a child whom he had held in his arms on the passage across that very Channel , one cold time , when the hail drifted heavily and the sea ran high . The likeness passed away , like ...
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Page 12 - 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!