The Works of Charles Dickens, Volume 5Harper & Brothers, 1873 |
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... never seen be- fore or since , my first copy of the Magazine in which my first effusion - a paper in the " Sketches , " called MR . MINNS AND HIS COUSIN ― dropped stealthily one evening at twilight , with fear and trembling , into a ...
... never seen be- fore or since , my first copy of the Magazine in which my first effusion - a paper in the " Sketches , " called MR . MINNS AND HIS COUSIN ― dropped stealthily one evening at twilight , with fear and trembling , into a ...
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... never saw Mr. SEYMOUR'S handwriting in my life . That I never saw Mr. SEYMOUR but once in my life , and that was on the night but one before his death , when he certainly offered no suggestion whatsoever . That I saw him , then in the ...
... never saw Mr. SEYMOUR'S handwriting in my life . That I never saw Mr. SEYMOUR but once in my life , and that was on the night but one before his death , when he certainly offered no suggestion whatsoever . That I saw him , then in the ...
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... never mind - accidents will happen - best reg- ulated families - never say die - down upon your luck - pull him up - put that in his pipe - like the flavor - damned rascals . " And with a lengthened string of similar broken sentences ...
... never mind - accidents will happen - best reg- ulated families - never say die - down upon your luck - pull him up - put that in his pipe - like the flavor - damned rascals . " And with a lengthened string of similar broken sentences ...
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... never rose again . " The man of whom I speak was a low pantomime actor ; and , like many people of his class , an habit- ual drunkard . In his better days , before he had be- come enfeebled by dissipation and emaciated by dis- ease , he ...
... never rose again . " The man of whom I speak was a low pantomime actor ; and , like many people of his class , an habit- ual drunkard . In his better days , before he had be- come enfeebled by dissipation and emaciated by dis- ease , he ...
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... never wears your club - button ? " said the Lieutenant . " No - never ! " replied the astonished Mr. Pickwick . Lieutenant Tappleton turned round to his friend Doctor Slammer , with a scarcely perceptible shrug of the shoulder , as if ...
... never wears your club - button ? " said the Lieutenant . " No - never ! " replied the astonished Mr. Pickwick . Lieutenant Tappleton turned round to his friend Doctor Slammer , with a scarcely perceptible shrug of the shoulder , as if ...
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Page 333 - The Greek Testament: with a critically revised Text; a Digest of Various Readings; Marginal References to verbal and Idiomatic Usage; Prolegomena; and a Critical and Exegetical Commentary. For the Use of Theological Students and Ministers, By HENRY ALFORD, DD, Dean of Canterbury.
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Page 7 - I walked down to Westminster Hall, and turned into it for half an hour, because my eyes were so dimmed with joy and pride, that they could not bear the street, and were not fit to be seen there.