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... door and windows , peeping curiously in above the shoulders of a dozen loungers . As to this idle company , there they stood , spellbound by the place , and , casting now and then a glance upon the darkness in their rear , settled their ...
... door and windows , peeping curiously in above the shoulders of a dozen loungers . As to this idle company , there they stood , spellbound by the place , and , casting now and then a glance upon the darkness in their rear , settled their ...
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... door open , in- continently blew out the lighted candle held by Miss Pecksniff , and slammed the front - door against Mr Pecksniff who was at the moment entering , with such violence , that in the twinkling of an eye he lay on his back ...
... door open , in- continently blew out the lighted candle held by Miss Pecksniff , and slammed the front - door against Mr Pecksniff who was at the moment entering , with such violence , that in the twinkling of an eye he lay on his back ...
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... door . " There is the creature ! Now mark my words , he has come back with John Westlock for his box , and is going to help him take it to the mail . Only mark my words , if that isn't his intention ! " Even as she spoke , the box ...
... door . " There is the creature ! Now mark my words , he has come back with John Westlock for his box , and is going to help him take it to the mail . Only mark my words , if that isn't his intention ! " Even as she spoke , the box ...
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... door . " I am sure I don't care a single straw about it , my dear , " resumed the lady ; " but will it not seem very odd if we take no notice of the ladies , after their saying so much , when they returned our call , about hoping to be ...
... door . " I am sure I don't care a single straw about it , my dear , " resumed the lady ; " but will it not seem very odd if we take no notice of the ladies , after their saying so much , when they returned our call , about hoping to be ...
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... door , before any notice was taken of the summons . At length , an old man , who acted as beliringer , thrust his head out of one of the narrow pointed windows above , and demanded their business . Satisfied with the reply , he de ...
... door , before any notice was taken of the summons . At length , an old man , who acted as beliringer , thrust his head out of one of the narrow pointed windows above , and demanded their business . Satisfied with the reply , he de ...
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Anne Boleyn appeared beautiful Bryan Burney called Calotype Captain Cardinal castle character Chuzzlewit Condé cried Daguerreotype Dalton dark daughter dear door Dr Burney Duke Earl of Surrey Ellen exclaimed eyes face fair father favour feeling Fenwolf followed France Frances Burney French Gaston of Orleans gentleman girl give Greenhill hand head heard heart Henry Herne Herne the hunter honour hope horse Jessie king lady laughed light look Lord Louis XIV Madame Martin Chuzzlewit Mazarin mind Miss Mooby Munden never night once party passed Pecksniff person Pinch poor present Prince Prince of Condé rejoined replied returned round royal seemed side Sir Thomas Sir Thomas Wyat smile soon spirit stood stranger sure Surrey tell thing thought Tigg tion took Turenne turned voice Westlock whole woman words Wyat young
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Page 304 - Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: "To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods...
Page 305 - Till streamed in crimson on the wind the Wrekin's crest of light, Till broad and fierce the star came forth on Ely's stately fane, And...
Page 301 - This was the noblest Roman of them all: All the conspirators, save only he, Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He, only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle; and the elements So mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, This was a man!
Page 169 - It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood : Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak ; Augurs, and understood relations, have By magot-pies,* and choughs, and rooks, brought forth The secret'st man of blood.
Page 303 - And nearer fast and nearer Doth the red whirlwind come ; And louder still, and still more loud From underneath that rolling cloud, Is heard the trumpet's war-note proud, The trampling, and the hum. And plainly and more plainly Now through the gloom appears, Far to left and far to right, In broken gleams of dark-blue light, The long array of helmets bright, The long array of spears.
Page 301 - Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear, Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
Page 303 - But when the face of Sextus Was seen among the foes, A yell that rent the firmament From all the town arose. On the house-tops was no woman But spat towards him and hissed, No child but screamed out curses, And shook its little fist.
Page 305 - Hampstead's swarthy moor they started for the north ; And on, and on, without a pause, untired they bounded still : All night from tower to tower they sprang ; they sprang from hill to hill...
Page 14 - Lupin was, comforted by the mere voice and presence of such a man; and, though he had merely said "a verb must agree with its nominative case in number and person...
Page 304 - In yon strait path a thousand May well be stopped by three. Now who will stand on either hand, And keep the bridge with me?" Then out spake Spurius Lartius; A Ramnian proud was he: "Lo, I will stand at thy right hand, And keep the bridge with thee.