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... dinner in hall . Articled clerks have been in the habit of fleshing their legal wit upon it . The last Lord Chancellor handled it neatly , when , correcting Mr. Blowers the eminent silk gown who said that such a thing might happen when ...
... dinner in hall . Articled clerks have been in the habit of fleshing their legal wit upon it . The last Lord Chancellor handled it neatly , when , correcting Mr. Blowers the eminent silk gown who said that such a thing might happen when ...
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... dinner , may have got an extra moral twist and shuffle into themselves out of Jarndyce and Jarndyce . The receiver in the cause has acquired a goodly sum of money by it , but has acquired too a distrust of his own mother , and a ...
... dinner , may have got an extra moral twist and shuffle into themselves out of Jarndyce and Jarndyce . The receiver in the cause has acquired a goodly sum of money by it , but has acquired too a distrust of his own mother , and a ...
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Charles Dickens. found sometimes , speechless but quite at home , at corners of dinner - tables in great country houses , and near doors of drawing - rooms , concerning which the fashionable intelligence is eloquent : where everybody ...
Charles Dickens. found sometimes , speechless but quite at home , at corners of dinner - tables in great country houses , and near doors of drawing - rooms , concerning which the fashionable intelligence is eloquent : where everybody ...
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... Dinner was over , and my godmother and I were sitting at the table before the fire . The clock ticked , the fire clicked ; not another sound had been heard in the room , or in the house , for I don't know how long . I happened to look ...
... Dinner was over , and my godmother and I were sitting at the table before the fire . The clock ticked , the fire clicked ; not another sound had been heard in the room , or in the house , for I don't know how long . I happened to look ...
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... dinner hour is nominally ( for we dine at all hours ) five ! Caddy , show Miss Clare and Miss Summers on their rooms . You will like to make some change , perhaps ? You will excuse me , I know , being so much occupied . O , that very ...
... dinner hour is nominally ( for we dine at all hours ) five ! Caddy , show Miss Clare and Miss Summers on their rooms . You will like to make some change , perhaps ? You will excuse me , I know , being so much occupied . O , that very ...
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Page 10 - The raw afternoon is rawest, and the dense fog is densest, and the muddy streets are muddiest, near that leaden-headed old obstruction, appropriate ornament for the threshold of a leaden-headed old corporation: Temple Bar. And hard by Temple Bar, in Lincoln's Inn Hall, at the very heart of the fog, sits the Lord High Chancellor in his High Court of Chancery.
Page 3 - Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as fullgrown snowflakes— gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun.
Page 29 - So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
Page 35 - Enter not into judgment with thy servant, O LORD; for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Page 29 - Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning : lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
Page 27 - Submission, self-denial, diligent work, are the preparations for a life begun with such a shadow on it. You are different from other children, Esther, because you were not born, like them, in common sinfulness and wrath. You are set apart.
Page 227 - She is a treasure!" exclaims Mr. George. "She's more. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
Page 313 - What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw with the broom, who had that distant ray of light upon him when he swept the churchyard -step?
Page 8 - ... old benchers, in select port-wine committee after dinner in hall. Articled clerks have been in the habit of fleshing their legal wit upon it. The last Lord Chancellor handled it neatly, when, correcting Mr. Blowers the eminent silk gown who said that such a thing might happen when the sky rained potatoes, he observed " or when we get through Jarndyce and Jarndyce, Mr. Blowers ; " — a pleasantry that particularly tickled the maces, bags, and purses.
Page 227 - Then, giving the Home Department and the Leadership of the House of Commons to Joodle, the Exchequer to Koodle, the Colonies to Loodle, and the Foreign Office to Moodle...