Exercises in Rhetorical Reading: With a Series of Introductory Lessons, Particularly Designed to Familiarize Readers with the Pauses and Other Marks in General Use, and Lead Them to the Practice of Modulation and Inflection of the VoiceA.S. Barnes & Company, 1855 - 432 pages |
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Page 244
... BLIMBER's establishment was a great hot - house , in which there was a forcing apparatus incessantly at work . All the boys blew before their time . No matter what a young gentleman was intended to bear , Doctor Blimber 15 made him bear ...
... BLIMBER's establishment was a great hot - house , in which there was a forcing apparatus incessantly at work . All the boys blew before their time . No matter what a young gentleman was intended to bear , Doctor Blimber 15 made him bear ...
Page 245
... Blimber , too , although a slim and graceful maid , did no soft violence to the gravity of the house . There was no light nonsense about Miss Blimber . She kept her hair short and crisp , and wore spectacles . She was dry 10 and sandy ...
... Blimber , too , although a slim and graceful maid , did no soft violence to the gravity of the house . There was no light nonsense about Miss Blimber . She kept her hair short and crisp , and wore spectacles . She was dry 10 and sandy ...
Page 246
... Blimber is at home , I believe ? " said Mr. Dom- bey . The man said yes ; and as they passed in , looked at Paul as if he were a little mouse , and the house were a trap . The Doctor was sitting in his portentous study , with a globe at ...
... Blimber is at home , I believe ? " said Mr. Dom- bey . The man said yes ; and as they passed in , looked at Paul as if he were a little mouse , and the house were a trap . The Doctor was sitting in his portentous study , with a globe at ...
Page 247
... Blimber inclined his head , in gentle tolerance of such insignificant poaching as Mrs. Pipchin's , and said he was glad to hear it . It was much more satisfactory , he observed , 35 rubbing his hands , to begin at the foundation . And ...
... Blimber inclined his head , in gentle tolerance of such insignificant poaching as Mrs. Pipchin's , and said he was glad to hear it . It was much more satisfactory , he observed , 35 rubbing his hands , to begin at the foundation . And ...
Page 248
... Blimber , " for the lady , who had perhaps been in waiting , opportunely entered , followed by her daughter , 5 that fair Sexton in spectacles , " Mr. Dombey . My daugh- ter Cornelia , Mr. Dombey . Mr. Dombey , my love , " pur- sued the ...
... Blimber , " for the lady , who had perhaps been in waiting , opportunely entered , followed by her daughter , 5 that fair Sexton in spectacles , " Mr. Dombey . My daugh- ter Cornelia , Mr. Dombey . Mr. Dombey , my love , " pur- sued the ...
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