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A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens - 1859
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Works. Libr. ed, Volume 23

Charles Dickens - 1861 - 448 pages
...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...which were always under a shower-bath of mud from Fleet-street, and which were made the dingier by their own iron bars proper, and the heavy shadow of...
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A tale of two cities

Charles Dickens - 1866 - 398 pages
...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...which were always under a shower-bath of mud from Fleet-street, and which were made the dingier by their own iron bars proper, and the heavy shadow of...
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Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set ...

Charles Dickens - 1868 - 262 pages
...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...which were always under a shower-bath of mud from Fleetstreet, and which were made the dingier by their own iron bars proper, and the heavy shadow of...
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The works of Charles Dickens. Household ed. [22 vols. Orig. issued in ...

Charles Dickens - 1871 - 194 pages
...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...their own iron bars proper, and the heavy shadow of Temple Bar. If your business necessitated your seeing " the House," you were put into a species of...
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The Dickens Dictionary: A Key to the Characters and Principal ..., Volume 30

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...their own iron bars proper, and the heavy shadow of Temple Bar. If your business necessitated your seeing " the House," you were put into a species of...
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A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens - 1873 - 584 pages
...where the oldest of men made your cheque shake as if the wind rustled it, while they examined your Temple Bar. If your business necessitated your seeing " the House," you were put into a species of...
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A Tale of Two Cities, and Sketches by Boz

Charles Dickens - 1880 - 864 pages
...objectionable, but were only the more respectable. while they examined the signature by the dingiesf of windows, which were always under a shower-bath...their own iron bars proper and the heavy shadow of Temple Bar. If your business necessitated your seeing " the House," you were put into a species of...
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Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens - 1880 - 460 pages
...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...which were always under a shower-bath of mud from Fleet-street, and which were made the dingisr by their own iron bars proper, and the heavy shadow of...
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Old and new London: a narrative of its history, its people and its places ...

George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 604 pages
...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 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...
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Genealogy of the Child, Childs and Childe Families, of the Past and Present ...

Elias Child - 1881 - 928 pages
...objectionable, but were only the more respectable. " Thus it had come to pass, that Tellson's was the triumphant perfection of inconvenience. After bursting open a...their own iron bars proper, and the heavy shadow of Temple Bar. If your business necessitated your seeing 'the House,' you were put into a species of Condemned...
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