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... fire upon the latticed panes , and smoke rising from the chimney , and a child , chased by a woman , running out into the rain to meet the shining figure of a wrapped - up man coming through the gate , has been put quite out of temper ...
... fire upon the latticed panes , and smoke rising from the chimney , and a child , chased by a woman , running out into the rain to meet the shining figure of a wrapped - up man coming through the gate , has been put quite out of temper ...
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... fire , shading her face with a hand - screen . " It would be useless to ask , " says my Lady , with the dreariness of the place in Lincolnshire still upon her , " whether anything has been done . " " Nothing that you would call anything ...
... fire , shading her face with a hand - screen . " It would be useless to ask , " says my Lady , with the dreariness of the place in Lincolnshire still upon her , " whether anything has been done . " " Nothing that you would call anything ...
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... fire , and appears to have a stately liking for the legal repetitions and prolixities , as ranging among the national bulwarks . It happens that the fire is hot , where my Lady sits ; and that the hand - screen is more beautiful than ...
... fire , and appears to have a stately liking for the legal repetitions and prolixities , as ranging among the national bulwarks . It happens that the fire is hot , where my Lady sits ; and that the hand - screen is more beautiful than ...
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... fire . The clock ticked , the fire clicked ; not another sound had been heard in the room , or in the house , for I don't know how long . I happened to look timidly up from my stitching , across the table , at my godmother , and I saw ...
... fire . The clock ticked , the fire clicked ; not another sound had been heard in the room , or in the house , for I don't know how long . I happened to look timidly up from my stitching , across the table , at my godmother , and I saw ...
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... fire anywhere ? For the streets were so full of dense brown smoke that scarcely anything was to be seen . “ O dear no , Miss , " he said . " This is a London particular . " I had never heard of such a thing . " A fog , Miss , " said the ...
... fire anywhere ? For the streets were so full of dense brown smoke that scarcely anything was to be seen . “ O dear no , Miss , " he said . " This is a London particular . " I had never heard of such a thing . " A fog , Miss , " said the ...
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Página 10 - The raw afternoon is rawest, and the dense fog is densest, and the muddy streets are muddiest, near that leaden-headed old obstruction, appropriate ornament for the threshold of a leaden-headed old corporation: Temple Bar. And hard by Temple Bar, in Lincoln's Inn Hall, at the very heart of the fog, sits the Lord High Chancellor in his High Court of Chancery.
Página 3 - Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as fullgrown snowflakes— gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun.
Página 29 - So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
Página 35 - Enter not into judgment with thy servant, O LORD; for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Página 29 - Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning : lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
Página 27 - Submission, self-denial, diligent work, are the preparations for a life begun with such a shadow on it. You are different from other children, Esther, because you were not born, like them, in common sinfulness and wrath. You are set apart.
Página 227 - She is a treasure!" exclaims Mr. George. "She's more. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
Página 313 - What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw with the broom, who had that distant ray of light upon him when he swept the churchyard -step?
Página 8 - ... old benchers, in select port-wine committee after dinner in hall. Articled clerks have been in the habit of fleshing their legal wit upon it. The last Lord Chancellor handled it neatly, when, correcting Mr. Blowers the eminent silk gown who said that such a thing might happen when the sky rained potatoes, he observed " or when we get through Jarndyce and Jarndyce, Mr. Blowers ; " — a pleasantry that particularly tickled the maces, bags, and purses.
Página 227 - Then, giving the Home Department and the Leadership of the House of Commons to Joodle, the Exchequer to Koodle, the Colonies to Loodle, and the Foreign Office to Moodle...