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The War for Wealth: The True Story of Globalization, or Why the Flat World ... - Page 33
by Gabor Steingart - 2008 - 304 pages
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Household Words: A weekly Journal, Volume 9, Volume 9

English literature - 1854 - 634 pages
...machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled. It had a black canal...head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness. It contained several large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like...
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Hard Times: A Novel

Charles Dickens - England - 1854 - 302 pages
...but, as matters stood, it was a town of unnatural red and black, like the painted face of a savage. It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out...head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness. It contained several large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like...
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Hard Times for These Times

Charles Dickens - 1854 - 390 pages
...machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled. It had a black canal...head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness. It contained several large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like...
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Immortelles from Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens, Ich (pseud) - 1856 - 208 pages
...machinery and tall chimneys out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled. It had a black canal...head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness. It contained several large streets, all very like one another, and many small streets still more like...
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Barnaby Rudge (and Hard times).

Charles Dickens - 1858 - 488 pages
...machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled. It had a black canal...head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness. It contained several large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like...
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Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'eighty, Volume 2

Charles Dickens - 1858 - 490 pages
...machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled. It had a black canal...head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness. It contained several large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like...
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Hard Times for These Times, Volume 1

Charles Dickens - 1870 - 354 pages
...unnatural red and black, like the painted face of a savage. It was a town of machinery and tall chin.neys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed...head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness. It contained several large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like...
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A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens - 1873 - 584 pages
...illsmelling dye, and vast piles of building full of windows, where there was a rattling and a trembling nil the night-time, It contained several large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like...
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The Old Curiosity Shop ; Hard Times ; and The Holly Tree Inn

Charles Dickens - 1880 - 868 pages
...themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled. It had a black canal in it, and a river than ran purple with illsmelling dye, and vast piles of...head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness. It contained several large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like...
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The Fireside Dickens: A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens ...

Charles Dickens - 1883 - 666 pages
...it; but as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black, like the painted face of a savage. It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out...head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness. It contained several large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like...
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