To the sense of smell, the house was like a sort of bottle filled with a strong distillation of mews ; and when the footman opened the door, he seemed to take the stopper out. Little Dorrit - Sivu 157tekijä(t) Charles Dickens - 1856Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| John Henry Lukis - 1862 - 274 sivua
...Tite Barnacle, of the Circumlocution Office, inhabited one of these odoriferous British dwellings. " To the sense of smell, the house was like a sort of...opened the door he seemed to take the stopper out. At the inner hall door another bottle seemed to be presented, and another stopper taken out. The second... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1868 - 578 sivua
...ram-shackle bowed front, little dingy windows, and a little dark area like a damp waistcoat-pocket, which he found to be number twenty-four, Mews Street, Grosvenor Square. To the sense ;•Г smell, the house was like a sort of bottle filled with a strong distillation of mews; and when... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1869 - 1248 sivua
...ram-shackle bowed front, little dingy windows, and a little dark area like a damp waistcoat-pocket, which he found to be number twenty-four, Mews Street, Grosvenor...of mews ; and when the footman opened the door, he seem<*l to take the stopper out. The footman was to the Grosvenor Square footmen, what the house was... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1873 - 374 sivua
...ramshackle bowed front, little dingy windows, and a little dark area like a damp waistcoat pocket, which he found to be number twenty-four Mews Street, Grosvenor...sort of bottle filled with a strong distillation of mows; and when the footman opened the door, he seemed to take the stopper out. The footman was to the... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1883 - 666 sivua
...ram-shackle bowed front, little dingy windows, and a little dark area like a damp waistcoat-pocket, which he to meet the finger half-way, and lay her nose against...chin, which was what is called a double-chin, was " Be so good as to give that card to Mr. Tite Barnacle, and to say that I have just now seen the younger... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1890 - 516 sivua
...ramshackle bowed front, little dingy windows, and a little dark area like a damp waistcoat pocket, which he found to be Number Twenty-four, Mews Street, Grosvenor...seemed to take the stopper out. The footman was to the Grosvenor-Square footman what the house was to the Grosvenor-Square houses. Admirable in his way, his... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1891 - 594 sivua
...ramshackle bowed front, little dingy windows, and a little dark area like a damp waistcoat pocket, which he found to be Number Twenty-four, Mews Street, Grosvenor...seemed to take the stopper out. The footman was to the Grosvenor-Square footman what the house was to the Grosvenor-Square houses. Admirable in his way, his... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1894 - 612 sivua
...ramshackle bowed front, little dingy windows, and a little dark area like a damp waistcoat-pocket, which he found to be number twentyfour, Mews Street, Grosvenor...houses. Admirable in his way, his way was a back and a by way. His gorgeousness was not unmixed with dirt; and both in complexion and consistency, he had... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1897 - 632 sivua
...ramshackle bowed front, little dingy windows, and a little dark area like a damp waistcoat-pocket, which he found to be number twenty-four, Mews Street, Grosvenor...smell, the house was like a sort of bottle filled with n strong distillation of mews ; and when the footman opened the door, he seemed to take the stopper... | |
| Emily Constance Baird Cook - 1903 - 542 sivua
...waistcoat pocket"... the house a sort of bottle filled with a strong distillation of mews, so that when the footman opened the door, he " seemed to take the stopper out." Dickens's picture is still a portrait that many will recognise : " Mews Street, Grosvenor Square, was... | |
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