Little Dorrit, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1899 |
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... fire . The universal stare made the eyes ache . Towards the distant line of Italian coast , indeed , it was a little relieved by light clouds of mist , slowly rising from the evaporation of the sea , but it softened nowhere else . Far ...
... fire . The universal stare made the eyes ache . Towards the distant line of Italian coast , indeed , it was a little relieved by light clouds of mist , slowly rising from the evaporation of the sea , but it softened nowhere else . Far ...
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... fire - flies mimicked them in the lower air , as men may feebly imitate the goodness of a better order of beings ; the long dusty roads and the interminable plains were in repose and so deep a hush was on the sea , that it scarcely ...
... fire - flies mimicked them in the lower air , as men may feebly imitate the goodness of a better order of beings ; the long dusty roads and the interminable plains were in repose and so deep a hush was on the sea , that it scarcely ...
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... fire , and another little mound swept together under the grate , as there had been night and day for fifteen years . There was a smell of black dye in the airless room , which the fire had been drawing out of the crape and stuff of the ...
... fire , and another little mound swept together under the grate , as there had been night and day for fifteen years . There was a smell of black dye in the airless room , which the fire had been drawing out of the crape and stuff of the ...
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... fire , smitten by plagues and leprosy , that their bones might be ground to dust , and that they might be utterly exterminated . As she read on , years seemed to fall away from her son like the imaginings of a dream , and all the old ...
... fire , smitten by plagues and leprosy , that their bones might be ground to dust , and that they might be utterly exterminated . As she read on , years seemed to fall away from her son like the imaginings of a dream , and all the old ...
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... fire - irons like the skeleton of a set deceased , a wash- ing - stand that looked as if it had stood for ages in a hail of dirty soapsuds , and a bedstead with four bare atomies of posts , each terminating in a spike , as if for the ...
... fire - irons like the skeleton of a set deceased , a wash- ing - stand that looked as if it had stood for ages in a hail of dirty soapsuds , and a bedstead with four bare atomies of posts , each terminating in a spike , as if for the ...
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