All the Year Round, 5. köideCharles Dickens, 1861 |
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... told you that , Orlick . " But then you've got " Ah ! " said he , dryly . ( 6 By this time we had come to the house , where to be a scholar . " I found his room to be one just within the side door , with a little window in it looking on ...
... told you that , Orlick . " But then you've got " Ah ! " said he , dryly . ( 6 By this time we had come to the house , where to be a scholar . " I found his room to be one just within the side door , with a little window in it looking on ...
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... told for more in her case than in mine ; but the air of inaccessibility which her beauty and her manner gave her , tormented me in the midst of my delight , and at the height of the assurance I felt that our patroness had chosen us for ...
... told for more in her case than in mine ; but the air of inaccessibility which her beauty and her manner gave her , tormented me in the midst of my delight , and at the height of the assurance I felt that our patroness had chosen us for ...
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... told him that Squire Cooke's boy had been turned away for theft , and advised him to go and apply for the place . He did so , and ( as a matter of course ) obtained the situation . The inference that the theft was committed for ...
... told him that Squire Cooke's boy had been turned away for theft , and advised him to go and apply for the place . He did so , and ( as a matter of course ) obtained the situation . The inference that the theft was committed for ...
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... told him what knowledge I had of Orlick . " Very good , Pip , " he observed , when I had concluded , " I'll go round presently , and pay our friend off . " Rather alarmed by this sum- mary action , I was for a little delay , and even ...
... told him what knowledge I had of Orlick . " Very good , Pip , " he observed , when I had concluded , " I'll go round presently , and pay our friend off . " Rather alarmed by this sum- mary action , I was for a little delay , and even ...
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... Told me ! Why , you have always told me all day long . When you told me your own story , you told me plainly that you began adoring her the first time you saw her , when you were very young indeed . " " Very well , then , " said I , to ...
... Told me ! Why , you have always told me all day long . When you told me your own story , you told me plainly that you began adoring her the first time you saw her , when you were very young indeed . " " Very well , then , " said I , to ...
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Page 65 - ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE , Of YORK. MARINER: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of AMERICA, near the Mouth of the Great River of OROONOQUE; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. WITH An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by PYRATES. Written by Himself.
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Page 202 - And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother ? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him. But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand : so he smote. him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again ; and he died.
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Page 148 - I'm making a better gentleman nor ever you'll be ! ' When one of 'em says to another, ' He was a convict a few years ago, and is a ignorant common fellow now, for all he's lucky,' what do I say ? I says to myself, ' If I ain'ta gentleman, nor yet ain't got no learning, I'm the owner of such. All on you owns stock and land ; which on you owns a brought-up London gentleman?
Page 360 - ... but could not, by the nicest scrutiny, discover the least symptom of life in him. We reasoned a long time about this odd appearance as well as we could, and...