 London, by the great highway hard by, and who, footsore and weary, and gazing fearfully at the huge town before them, as if foreboding that their misery there would be but as a drop of water in the sea, or as a grain of sea-sand on the shore, went shrinking...  Great expectations - Page 492by Charles Dickens - 1911Full view - About this book
 | Charles Dickens - Businessmen - 1848 - 752 pages
...and gazing fearfully at the huge town before them, as if foreboding that their misery there would he but as a drop of water in the sea, or as a grain of...travellers crept past, but always, as she thought, in one direction—always towards the town. Swallowed up in one phase or other of its immensity, towards which... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1867 - 576 pages
...by, and who, footsore and weary, and gizing fearfully at the huge town before them, as if foreboding that their misery there would be but as a drop of...angry weather, and looking as if the very elements rejtcted them. Day after day, such travellers crept past, but always, as she thought, in one direction... | |
 | Charles Dickens - English fiction - 1872 - 564 pages
...bard-by, and who, footsore and weary, and gazing fearfully at the huge town before them, us if foreboding that their misery there would be but as a drop of...rejected them. Day after day, such travellers crept past, bat always, as she thought, in oue direction — always towards the town. Swallowed up in one phase... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1873 - 584 pages
...comers and speed before them to :he busy port. — American Notts, Chap. 5. CITY— Traveller* to the. t all my constitution. They got rheumatic about the legs and arms, and went into kitchens and othe owards the town. Swallowed up in one phase or other of its immensity, towards which they seemed impelled... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1875 - 534 pages
...hard-by, and who, footsore and weary, and gazing fearfully at the huge town before them, as if foreboding that their misery there would be but as a drop of...cowering before the angry weather, and looking as if the viTy elements rejected them. Day after day, such travellers crept past, but always, as she thought,... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1883 - 666 pages
...sparkled in the now cloudless sunshine, like Nature's eyes turned up to Heaven. CITY—Travellers to the. Day after day, such travellers crept past, but always, as she thought, in one direction—always towards the town. Swallowed up in one phase or other of its immensity, towards which... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1885 - 860 pages
...hard-by, and who, footsore and weary, and gazing fearfully at the huge town before them, as if foreboding that their misery there would be but as a drop of...sea-sand on the shore, went shrinking on, cowering belore the angry weather, and looking as if the very elements rejected them. Day after day, such travellers... | |
 | John O. Jordan - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 262 pages
...Harriet Carker watches with compassion the footsore and weary people who are drawn into its vortex: Day after day, such travellers crept past, but always, as she thought, in one direction - always toward the town. Swallowed up in one phase or other of its immensity, toward which they seemed impelled... | |
 | Stephen Regan - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 594 pages
...the huge town before them, as if foreboding that theit misery there would be but as a drop of warer in the sea, or as a grain of sea-sand on the shore, went shtinking on, coweting before the angry weather, and looking as if the very elemenrs rejecred them.... | |
 | 陳英輝 - Authors, English - 2005 - 222 pages
...highway hard by, and who, footsore and weary, and gazing at the huge town before them, as if foreboding that their misery there would be but as a drop of...the very elements rejected them. Day after day, such travelers crept past, but always, as she thought, in one direction @ always towards the town. Swallowed... | |
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