The Works of Charles Dickens, Volum 12Chapman & Hall, 1897 |
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Pàgina 349 - Gordon ; and every day, from the rising up of the sun to the going down of the same, pray for "his health and vigor.
Pàgina 408 - ... stealing on them as they heard it, and by degrees became quite sprightly; mothers danced their babies to its ringing; still the same magical tink, tink, tink, came gaily from the workshop of the Golden Key.
Pàgina 2 - Maypole - by which term from henceforth is meant the house, and not its sign - the Maypole was an old building, with more gable ends than a lazy man would care to count on a sunny day; huge zig-zag chimneys, out of which it seemed as though even smoke could not choose but come in more than naturally fantastic shapes, imparted to it in its tortuous progress; and vast stables, gloomy, ruinous and empty.
Pàgina xiv - ... (unfortunately) none but sober people at hand. But I could hardly have respected him more, whatever the stimulating influences of this sight might have been. He had not the least respect, I am sorry to say, for me in return, or for anybody but the cook ; to whom he was attached — but only, I fear, as a Policeman might have been. Once, I met him unexpectedly, about...