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... no light of day into the place ; well may the uninitiated from the streets , who peep in through the glass panes in the door , be deterred from entrance by - ― its owlish aspect , and by the drawl languidly echoing 1 * BLEAK HOUSE . 3.
... no light of day into the place ; well may the uninitiated from the streets , who peep in through the glass panes in the door , be deterred from entrance by - ― its owlish aspect , and by the drawl languidly echoing 1 * BLEAK HOUSE . 3.
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... its decaying houses and its blighted lands in every shire ; which has its worn - out lunatic in every mad- house , and its dead in every churchyard ; which has its ruined suitor , with his slipshod heels and thread- bare dress ...
... its decaying houses and its blighted lands in every shire ; which has its worn - out lunatic in every mad- house , and its dead in every churchyard ; which has its ruined suitor , with his slipshod heels and thread- bare dress ...
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... its sitting to its rising , and always expecting some incomprehensible judgment to be given in her favour . Some say she really is , or was , a party to a suit ; but no one knows for certain , because no one cares . She carries some ...
... its sitting to its rising , and always expecting some incomprehensible judgment to be given in her favour . Some say she really is , or was , a party to a suit ; but no one knows for certain , because no one cares . She carries some ...
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... its unwholesome hand to spoil and corrupt , would be a very wide question . From the master , upon whose impaling files reams of dusty warrants in Jarndyce and Jarndyce have grimly writhed into many shapes ; down to the copying clerk in ...
... its unwholesome hand to spoil and corrupt , would be a very wide question . From the master , upon whose impaling files reams of dusty warrants in Jarndyce and Jarndyce have grimly writhed into many shapes ; down to the copying clerk in ...
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... its limits too ( as your High- ness shall find when you have made the tour of it , and are come to the brink of the void beyond ) , it is a very little speck . There is much good in it ; there are many good and true people in it ; it has ...
... its limits too ( as your High- ness shall find when you have made the tour of it , and are come to the brink of the void beyond ) , it is a very little speck . There is much good in it ; there are many good and true people in it ; it has ...
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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...