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... doubt it ! " You find the rent high , do you , sir ? " returns the stationer . " Rents are high about here . I don't know how it is exactly , but the law seems to put things up in price . Not , " adds Mr. Snagsby , with his apologetic ...
... doubt it ! " You find the rent high , do you , sir ? " returns the stationer . " Rents are high about here . I don't know how it is exactly , but the law seems to put things up in price . Not , " adds Mr. Snagsby , with his apologetic ...
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... doubt William Guppy ? You don't suspect any harm ? " " I don't suspect anything more than I know , William , " returns the other , gravely . " And what do you know ? " urges Mr. Guppy , raising his voice a little ; but on his friend's ...
... doubt William Guppy ? You don't suspect any harm ? " " I don't suspect anything more than I know , William , " returns the other , gravely . " And what do you know ? " urges Mr. Guppy , raising his voice a little ; but on his friend's ...
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... doubt . How can I know without seeing them , when he don't know himself ? He is always spelling out words from them , and chalking them over the table and the shop - wall , and asking what this is , and what that is ; but his whole ...
... doubt . How can I know without seeing them , when he don't know himself ? He is always spelling out words from them , and chalking them over the table and the shop - wall , and asking what this is , and what that is ; but his whole ...
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... doubt whether he may not be responsible for some inconceivable part in the catastrophe which is the talk of the whole neighbourhood , is almost resolved into certainty by Mrs. Snagsby's pertinacity in that fixed gaze . His mental ...
... doubt whether he may not be responsible for some inconceivable part in the catastrophe which is the talk of the whole neighbourhood , is almost resolved into certainty by Mrs. Snagsby's pertinacity in that fixed gaze . His mental ...
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... doubt he knew there would be something in the simple image of the poor afflicted creature , that would fall like a gentle lesson on my mind at that time . I felt it as he spoke to me . I could not tell him heartily enough how ready I ...
... doubt he knew there would be something in the simple image of the poor afflicted creature , that would fall like a gentle lesson on my mind at that time . I felt it as he spoke to me . I could not tell him heartily enough how ready I ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Allan answer asked Bagnet Baronet better Bleak House Bucket Caddy chair Charley Chesney Wold child comes consider court cousin cried dark darling dear girl door Esther eyes face gentleman George give glad gone Guppy Guster hand happy head hear heard heart honor hope hour housekeeper husband Jarndyce Jarndyce and Jarndyce Jellyby Kenge knew Lady Dedlock Ladyship light Lincoln's Inn Fields Lincolnshire little woman look Mademoiselle manner mean mind Miss Flite Miss Summerson morning mother never night observed old girl poor pray present replied returned my Guardian Richard Rouncewell round Saint Albans seemed shaking shut Sir Leicester Dedlock sitting Skimpole Smallweed smile Snagsby speak street suppose sure tell thank thing thought told Tony took Tulkinghorn turned up-stairs Vholes voice Volumnia walk Weevle window wish Woodcourt word young
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Página 109 - The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme, and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Let them but once clearly perQuestions and Answers. 337 cëive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble.
Página 15 - The Lord Chancellor of that Court, true to his title in his last act, has died the death of all Lord Chancellors in all Courts, and of all authorities in all places under all names soever, where false pretences are made, and where injustice is done. Call the death by any name Your Highness will, attribute it to whom you will, or say it might have been prevented how you will, it is the same death eternally — inborn, inbred, engendered in the corrupted humours of the vicious body itself, and that...
Página 212 - Jo closes his eyes, muttering, " I'm wery thankful." After watching him closely a little while, Allan puts his mouth very near his ear, and says to him in a low, distinct voice. " Jo ! Did you ever know a prayer ? "
Página 449 - We are not rich in the bank, but we have always prospered, and we have quite enough. I never walk out with my husband, but I hear the people bless him. I never go into a house of any degree, but I hear his praises, or see them in grateful eyes. I never lie down at night, but I know that in the course of that day he has alleviated pain, and soothed some fellow-creature in the time of need.
Página 191 - There is not an atom of Tom's slime, not a cubic inch of any pestilential gas in which he lives, not one obscenity or degradation about him, not an ignorance, not a wickedness, not a brutality of his committing, but shall work its retribution, through every order of society, np to the proudest of the proud, and to the highest of the high.
Página 157 - Here I am! This is my frugal breakfast. Some men want legs of beef and mutton for breakfast; I don't. Give me my peach, my cup of coffee, and my claret; I am content. I don't want them for themselves, but they remind* me of the sun. There's nothing solar about legs of beef and mutton. Mere animal satisfaction!" "This is our friend's consulting room (or would be, if he ever prescribed), his sanctum, his studio,
Página 389 - I found Richard thin and languid, slovenly in his dress, abstracted in his manner, forcing his spirits now and then, and at other intervals relapsing into a dull thoughtfulness. About his large bright eyes, that used to be so merry, there was a wanness and a restlessness that changed them altogether. I cannot use the expression that he looked old.
Página 213 - Art in Heaven — is the light a comiu, sir? " " It is close at hand. HALLOWED BE THY NAME! " " Hallowed be— thy— " The light is come upon the dark benighted way. Dead! Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Eight Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order.