All the Year Round, Volumen20Charles Dickens, 1868 |
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... London , since that time . The Diamond has been pledged to Mr. Luker , since that time . you do those two things , without knowing it , too ? Were you drunk when I saw you off in the pony - chaise on that Saturday even . ing ? And did ...
... London , since that time . The Diamond has been pledged to Mr. Luker , since that time . you do those two things , without knowing it , too ? Were you drunk when I saw you off in the pony - chaise on that Saturday even . ing ? And did ...
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... London a " welcher " It is an every - day occurrence for a small bookmaker generally goes to the far east ; and ... London . There he gets round him a knot of clients , whom he meets in some public - house , the master of which ...
... London a " welcher " It is an every - day occurrence for a small bookmaker generally goes to the far east ; and ... London . There he gets round him a knot of clients , whom he meets in some public - house , the master of which ...
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... London , and ends in a police office and a jail . Among the outside public there is an idea that the whole betting world regulates its finan- cial operations very much by relying on infor- mation obtained from training stables , through ...
... London , and ends in a police office and a jail . Among the outside public there is an idea that the whole betting world regulates its finan- cial operations very much by relying on infor- mation obtained from training stables , through ...
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... London , some of the chief towns in England , Ireland , and Scotland . Co. to add that any announcement made in connexion It is scarcely necessary for MESSRS . CHAPPELL AND with these FAREWELL READINGS will be strictly ad- hered to ...
... London , some of the chief towns in England , Ireland , and Scotland . Co. to add that any announcement made in connexion It is scarcely necessary for MESSRS . CHAPPELL AND with these FAREWELL READINGS will be strictly ad- hered to ...
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... London hotels , where the impatient guest has to give a good hard pull , to produce a faint and little regarded twang . These endless miles of new stone palaces , which the prefect baron has reeled off as from a machine , will grow dark ...
... London hotels , where the impatient guest has to give a good hard pull , to produce a faint and little regarded twang . These endless miles of new stone palaces , which the prefect baron has reeled off as from a machine , will grow dark ...
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answer asked Beaufort House beautiful beavers Betteredge Blake bookmaker Brixlegg Bruff Burgundy called Captain CHARLES DICKENS Clos Vougeot colour dear Diamond DICKENS Dined dinner door dress England English eyes Ezra Jennings face favour French Frizinghall gentleman Gheel girl give Glenluce half hand Hazeldean head heard heart Hester honour horse hour hundred knew Lady Humphrey laudanum leave letter live London looked Maggie matter Médoc ment mind Miss Verinder Moonstone morning mother never night Northenville once opium paper passed person Polly poor port wine pounds present round seemed Sergeant side Sir Archie smile soon Streatham street tell thing thought thousand tion told took town turned walk wife window wine woman words young
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Página 348 - Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep ; If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take ; And this I ask for Jesus
Página 155 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Página 264 - Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there: And 'twill be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.
Página 208 - But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, compelled him ; and he hearkened unto their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat upon the bed.
Página 103 - I shall, despair. — There is no creature loves me ; And, if I die, no soul will pity me : — Nay, wherefore should they ? since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself.
Página 153 - In a little while I was able to venture back and let her see me again. I found her at the head of the sofa when I returned. She was just touching his forehead with her lips. I shook my head as soberly as I could, and pointed to her chair. She looked back at me with a bright smile and a charming color in her face. "You would have done it,
Página 154 - Tea in England hath been sold in the leaf for six pounds, and sometimes for ten pounds the pound weight, and in respect of its former scarceness and dearness it hath been only used as a regalia in high treatments and entertainments, and presents made thereof to princes and grandees till the year 1657.
Página 155 - Muse's friend, Tea, does our fancy aid : Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene, Fit, on her birthday, to salute the Queen.
Página 74 - No. I was born, and partly brought up, in one of our colonies. My father was an Englishman ; but my mother We are straying away from our subject, Mr. Blake ; and it is my fault.
Página 150 - ... back again to the subject which had engaged us earlier in the evening — the subject of the Diamond. I took care to revert to those portions of the story of the Moonstone which related to the transport of it from London to Yorkshire ; to the risk which Mr. Blake had run in removing it from the bank at Frizinghall ; and to the unexpected appearance of the Indians at the house on the evening of the birthday.