Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'eightyChapman and Hall, 1858 |
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Pàgina ix - ... by digging out the mortar, broke countless squares of glass by scraping away the putty all round the frames, and tore up and swallowed, in splinters, the greater part of a wooden staircase of six steps and a landing — but after some three years he too was taken ill, and died before the kitchen fire. He kept his eye to the last upon the meat as it roasted, and suddenly turned over on his back with a sepulchral cry of 'Cuckoo ! ' Since then I have been ravenless.
Pàgina 330 - FROM the workshop of the Golden Key there issued forth a tinkling sound, so merry and good-humored, that it suggested the idea of some one working blithely, and made quite pleasant music.
Pàgina ix - No account of the Gordon Riots having been, to my knowledge, introduced into any Work of Fiction, and the subject presenting very extraordinary and remarkable features, I was led to project this Tale.
Pàgina viii - While I was yet inconsolable for his loss, another friend of mine in Yorkshire...