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... side . I should have the monster then in section , and be able to see the grain of it , so to speak . There was not likely to be much , I told myself , to stir reflection or imagination in the suburbs that I have known since I was a boy ...
... side . I should have the monster then in section , and be able to see the grain of it , so to speak . There was not likely to be much , I told myself , to stir reflection or imagination in the suburbs that I have known since I was a boy ...
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... side , and artisans ' dwellings on the other - each as tall and sheer , as grim and dingy , as the other . I have always been rather puzzled what to make of Clerk- enwell . None of its buildings seem to have any fronts , it seems a city ...
... side , and artisans ' dwellings on the other - each as tall and sheer , as grim and dingy , as the other . I have always been rather puzzled what to make of Clerk- enwell . None of its buildings seem to have any fronts , it seems a city ...
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... side , and then streets on streets again . I came to cross - roads with trams and ' buses radiating everywhither . The London pavements were beginning to crawl up my shins . Still , there was hope : it was just like 22 LONDON .
... side , and then streets on streets again . I came to cross - roads with trams and ' buses radiating everywhither . The London pavements were beginning to crawl up my shins . Still , there was hope : it was just like 22 LONDON .
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... side of beef , a couple of lambs on the shoulders of one - so silently and so hidden under their burdens that the carcasses seemed to be walking by themselves . Without noise or hurry , hour by hour , orderly , unceasing , incalculably ...
... side of beef , a couple of lambs on the shoulders of one - so silently and so hidden under their burdens that the carcasses seemed to be walking by themselves . Without noise or hurry , hour by hour , orderly , unceasing , incalculably ...
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... sides gleaming pallidly in the half - light - here a block of Moët & Chandon , a terrace of Veuve Clicquot , an alley of Perrier Jouet , a broken suburb of Pommery . Every single case has its name branded on it , and also its own ...
... sides gleaming pallidly in the half - light - here a block of Moët & Chandon , a terrace of Veuve Clicquot , an alley of Perrier Jouet , a broken suburb of Pommery . Every single case has its name branded on it , and also its own ...
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