 With its overhanging stories, drowsy little panes of glass, and front bulging out and projecting over the pathway, the old house looked as if it were nodding in its sleep. Indeed, it needed no very great stretch of fancy to detect in it other resemblances...  Works of Charles Dickens - Pàgina 8per Charles Dickens - 1874Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Charles Dickens - 1911 - 704 pàgines
...and seemed to lull it to rest. With its overhanging stories, drowsy little panes of glass, and front bulging out and projecting over- the pathway, the...originally been a deep dark red, but had grown yellow and discoloured like an old man's skin; the sturdy timbers had decayed like teeth; and here and there the... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1919 - 898 pàgines
...and seemed to lull it to rest. With its over-hanging stories, drowsy little panes of glass, and front bulging out and projecting over the pathway, the old...it needed no very great stretch of fancy to detect it in other resemblances to humanity. The bricks of which it was built had originally been a deep dark... | |
 | 1920 - 614 pàgines
...gloomy, ruinous, and empty. . . . With its overhanging stories, drowsy little panes of glass, and front bulging out and projecting over the pathway, the old...house looked as if it were nodding in its sleep." And who can forget the fat, clunderheaded landlord of this ancient hostelrie, John Willett? All through... | |
 | Bertram Waldrom Matz - 1922 - 316 pàgines
...seemed to lull it to rest. " With its overhanging stories, drowsy little panes of glass, and front bulging out and projecting over the pathway, the old...it were nodding in its sleep. Indeed, it needed no great stretch of fancy to detect in it other resemblances to humanity. The bricks of which it was built... | |
 | Bertram Waldrom Matz - 1922 - 284 pàgines
...and seemed to lull it to rest. With its overhanging storey, drowsy little panes of glass, and front bulging out and projecting over the pathway, the old...it were nodding in its sleep. Indeed, it needed no great stretch of fancy to detect in it other resemblances to humanity. The bricks of which it was built... | |
 | Thomas Burke - 1927 - 446 pàgines
...and seemed to lull it to rest. With its overhanging stories, drowsy little panes of glass, and front bulging out and projecting over the pathway, the old...originally been a deep dark red, but had grown yellow and discoloured like an old man's skin ; the sturdy timbers had decayed like teeth ; and here and there... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1899 - 732 pàgines
...and seemed to lull it to rest. With its overhanging stories, drowsy little panes of glass, and front bulging out and projecting over the pathway, the old...to detect in it other resemblances to humanity. The bripks of which it was built had originally been a deep dark red, but had grown yellow and discolored... | |
 | Stewart Elliott Guthrie - 1995 - 335 pàgines
...Houses often are not only alive but also human. One "looked as if it were nodding in its sleep . . . The bricks of which it was built had originally been a deep dark red, but had grown yellow and discoloured like an old man's skin; the sturdy timbers had decayed like teeth."101 Another "was leaning... | |
 | 448 pàgines
...and seemed to lull it to rest. With its overhanging stories, drowsy little panes of glass, and front bulging out and projecting over the pathway, the old...originally been a deep dark red, but had grown yellow and discoloured like an old man's skin ; the sturdy timbers had decayed like teeth ; and here and there... | |
 | S. Warrand - 1842 - 614 pàgines
...and seemed to lull it to rest. With its overhanging stories, drowsy little panes of glass, and front bulging out and projecting over the pathway, the old...originally been a deep dark red, but had grown yellow and discoloured like an old man's skin ; the sturdy timbers bad decayed like teeth; and here and there... | |
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