Hard times, Hunted down, Holiday romance, and George Silverman's explanationChapman & Hall, 1898 |
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... seemed a kind of cannon loaded to the muzzle with facts , and prepared to blow them clean out of the regions of childhood at one discharge . He seemed a gal- vanizing apparatus , too , charged with a grim mechanical substitute for the ...
... seemed a kind of cannon loaded to the muzzle with facts , and prepared to blow them clean out of the regions of childhood at one discharge . He seemed a gal- vanizing apparatus , too , charged with a grim mechanical substitute for the ...
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... seemed to receive But , whereas the girl a deeper and more lustrous colour from the sun , when it shone upon her , ( the boy was so light - eyed and light - haired that the self - same rays appeared to draw out of him what little colour ...
... seemed to receive But , whereas the girl a deeper and more lustrous colour from the sun , when it shone upon her , ( the boy was so light - eyed and light - haired that the self - same rays appeared to draw out of him what little colour ...
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... seemed to have been stretched to make so much of him . A man with a great puffed head and forehead , swelled veins in his temples , and such a strained skin to his face that it seemed to hold his eyes open , and lift his eyebrows up . A ...
... seemed to have been stretched to make so much of him . A man with a great puffed head and forehead , swelled veins in his temples , and such a strained skin to his face that it seemed to hold his eyes open , and lift his eyebrows up . A ...
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... seemed to dote upon her , " said Childers , taking a step or two to look into the empty trunk . Both Mr. Childers and Master Kidderminster walked in a curious manner ; with their legs wider apart than the general run of men , and with a ...
... seemed to dote upon her , " said Childers , taking a step or two to look into the empty trunk . Both Mr. Childers and Master Kidderminster walked in a curious manner ; with their legs wider apart than the general run of men , and with a ...
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... seemed to be on the whole more comforted by Goldsmith than by Cocker . Mr. Gradgrind was for ever working , in print and out of print , at this eccentric sum , and he never could make out how it yielded this unaccountable product . " I ...
... seemed to be on the whole more comforted by Goldsmith than by Cocker . Mr. Gradgrind was for ever working , in print and out of print , at this eccentric sum , and he never could make out how it yielded this unaccountable product . " I ...
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