 ... the lowest stable nondescript, it was the likeliest thing upon the cards. So the guard of the Dover mail thought to himself, that Friday night in November, one thousand seven hundred and seventyfive, lumbering up Shooter's Hill, as he stood on his...  A Tale of Two Cities - Page 5by Charles Dickens - 1894 - 373 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Dickens - 1871 - 194 pages
...seventy-five, lumbering up Shooter's Hill, as he stood on his own particular perch behind the mail, beating his feet, and keeping an eye and a hand on the arm-chest...Dover mail was in its usual genial position that the guards suspected the passengers, the passengers suspected one another and the guard, they all suspected... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1880 - 864 pages
...seventy-five, lumbering up Shooter's Hill, as he stood on his own particular perch behind the mail, beating his feet, and keeping an eye and a hand on the arm-chest before him, where a loac'e 1 blunderbuss lay at the top of six or eight loaded horse-pistols, deposited on a substratum... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1881 - 500 pages
...seventy-five, lumbering up Shooter's Hill, as he stood on his own particular perch behind the mail, beating his feet, and keeping an eye and a hand on the armchest...blunderbuss lay at the top of six or eight loaded horse -pistols, deposited on a substratum of cutlass. The Dover mail was in its usual genial position... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1890 - 622 pages
...seventy-five, lumbering up Shooter's Hill, as he stood on his own particular perch behind the mail, beating his feet, and keeping an eye and a hand on the arm-chest...Dover mail was in its usual genial position that the guards suspected the passengers, the passengers suspected one another and the guard, they all suspected... | |
 | 1903 - 852 pages
...was in the days of the highwayman, when, so we are informed in chapter two of "A Tale of Two Cities," "the Dover mail was in its usual genial position that...everybody else, and the coachman was sure of nothing but his horses; as to which cattle he could, with a clear conscience, have taken his oath on the two Testaments... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1898 - 514 pages
...-seventyfive, lumbering up Shooter's Hill, as he stood on his own particular perch behind the mail, beating his feet, and keeping an eye and a hand on the arm-chest...horse-pistols, deposited on a substratum of cutlass. which cattle he could with a clear conscience have taken his oath on the two Testaments that they were... | |
 | 1903 - 636 pages
...in the days of the highwayman, when, so we are informed in chapter two of " A Tale of Two Cities," " the Dover mail was in its usual genial position that the guard sufpected the passengers, the passengers suspected one another and the guard, they all suspected everybody... | |
 | 1904 - 1136 pages
...in the days of the highwayman, when, so we are informed in chapter two of " A Tale of Two Cities," " the Dover mail was in its usual genial position that...everybody else, and the coachman was sure of nothing but his horses; as to which cattle he could, with a clear conscience, have taken his oath on the two Testaments... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1904 - 262 pages
...seventy-five, lumbering up Shooter's Hill, as he stood on his own particular perch behind the mail, beating his feet, and keeping an eye and a hand on the arm-chest...horse-pistols, deposited on a substratum of cutlass. the top and be damned to you, for I have had trouble enough to get you to it ! — Joe ! " " Halloa ! "... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1908 - 920 pages
...seventy-five, lumbering up Shooter's Hill, as he stood on his own particular perch behind the mail, beating his feet, and keeping an eye and a hand on the arm-chest...him, where a loaded blunderbuss lay at the top 'of sbt or eight loaded horse- pistols, deposited on a substratum of cutlass. The Dover mail was in its... | |
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