The Works of Charles Dickens, Nide 6

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Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1897
 

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Sivu 380 - Harris"'- here she kept her eye on Mr Pecksniff - '"be they gents or be they ladies, is, don't ask me whether I won't take none, or whether I will, but leave the bottle on the chimley-piece, and let me put my lips to it when I am so dispoged.
Sivu 99 - We have drawings of this celebrated structure from the North, from the South, from the East, from the West, from the South-East, from the Nor'-West...
Sivu 65 - First, there was Mr. Spottletoe, who was so bald and had such big whiskers, that he seemed to have stopped his hair, by the sudden application of some powerful remedy, in the very act of falling off his head, and to have fastened it irrevocably on his face.
Sivu 380 - leave the bottle on the chimley-piece, and don't ask me to take none, but let me put my lips to it when I am so dispoged, and then I will do what I 'm engaged to do, according to the best of my ability.
Sivu 491 - She's the sort of woman now," said Mould, drawing his silk handkerchief over his head again, and composing himself for a nap, " one would almost feel disposed to bury for nothing — and do it neatly, too !
Sivu 10 - ... frantic flights into the air, and playing all manner of extraordinary gambols in the extremity of their distress. Nor was this enough for its malicious fury : for not content with driving them abroad, it charged small parties of them and hunted them into the wheelwright's...
Sivu 221 - Here's the rule for bargains : 'Do other men, for they would do you.' That's the true business precept. All others are counterfeits.
Sivu 55 - I judged from this," said Mr. Pecksniff, holding out the cover of the letter. " No doubt you did," returned the gentleman. " But, Mr. Pecksniffj the whole thing resolves itself into an instance of the peculiarities of genius. Every man of true genius has his peculiarity. Sir, the peculiarity of my friend Slyme is, that he is always waiting round the corner. He is perpetually round the corner, sir. He is round the corner at this instant. Now...
Sivu 69 - Charity, my dear," said Mr. Pecksniff, " when I take my chamber candlestick to-night, remind me to be more than usually particular in praying for Mr. Anthony Chuzzlewit; who has done me an injustice.
Sivu 311 - New York Sewer ! Here's some of the twelfth thousand of to-day's Sewer, with the best accounts of the markets, and all the shipping news, and four whole columns of country correspondence, and a full account of the Ball at Mrs. White's last night, where all the beauty and fashion of New York was assembled, with the Sewer's own particulars of the private lives of all the ladies that was there ! Here's the Sewer ! Here's some of the twelfth thousand of the New York Sewer ! Here's the Sewer's exposure...

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