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..., under a white netting, was a little bed, the woodwork gayly painted with knots of bright flowers. Near it, against the wall, was a black walnut bure... ...om. As she was tying the Nottingham lace curtains at the window into great knots, she saw old Miss Baker on the opposite sidewalk in the street below,...

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...ards, which here and there diverged from the main street, disclosed little knots of houses, where drunken men and women were posi tively wallowing in... ...ir hung down upon his bloodless face; his beard was torn, and twisted into knots; his eyes shone with a terrible light; his unwashed flesh crackled wi...

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...me, and began knotting them up in her handkerchief, in a chain of separate knots, for safe keeping through the night. All this while, Defarge, with hi... ...t, contemplating the wine shop and the street. In both, there were several knots of loungers, squalid and miserable, but now with a manifest sense of ...

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...ere such a while, That all the rest creep in and form a junction, Life knots of vipers on a dunghill’s soil, Rage, fear, hate, jealousy, re... ...he past to mind; And when he did, he found himself at sea, Sailing six knots an hour before the wind; The shores of Ilion lay beneath their ...

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.... I began to unite it to show them there was nothing, but we had drawn the knots too tight, and Gaspard’s little sword would not of course cut, nay, t... ... wonderful mixture of black gowns and cassocks, with blue scarfs and sword-knots, lawyers, ladies, warriors, and priests. He continued to bring us tid...

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... of gold and silver lace-work, as it is called, included epaulettes, sword-knots, aiguillettes; in short, the immense mass of glittering ornaments tha... ...eth. “There are ten months’ work in it; I could earn more at making sword- knots.—He told me that Steinbock means a rock goat, a chamois, in German. A...

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...were taught to put on shoes in their sight, and to tie them fast with many knots, and to muffle up their heads in caps all composed of running nooses,... ... as if tired and out of breath, it runs into thick and frequent joints and knots, as so many pauses which demonstrate that it has no more its first vi...

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...in some, overhanging the narrow beach below in rude and heavy masses. Huge knots of seaweed The Pickwick Papers 58 hung upon the jagged and pointed s... ... preliminaries to arrange, the com pany straggled into the town in little knots of twos and threes; and within a quarter of an hour were all seated i...

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...een ton of coal a day, and we thought ourselves lucky when we kicked seven knots an hour out of her. Then we used to stop and let the bearings cool do...

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...ere silent now. Mr Willet had got by this time into such a complication of knots, that it was perfectly clear he must wake or die. He chose the former... ... but made his way along, with perfect indifference. There were many little knots and groups of persons in Westminster Hall: some few looking upward at... ...n unusual haste and evi dent excitement. They were, for the most part, in knots of two or three, or sometimes half a dozen; they spoke little 367 Ch... ...erpetual change of position (aris ing from the sudden growth of imaginary knots and knobs in her chair), a frequent friction of her eyebrows, the inc...

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...is was improvised.” At ten o’clock the party began to break up, and little knots of guests went home together. David Sechard heard the un- wonted musi...

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...trons. Waiting women could not indulge in much finery, but whatever breast knots and tiny curls beyond her little tight cap could do, Emlyn did withou...

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... we discovered that the glands of the throat were much swelled and in hard knots. Whitby returned in two days, and was much alarmed. He declared that ... ...ne of these little boys, W ate, playing, fell overboard: we were going ten knots at the time, right before the wind; it was a quarter of an hour befor... ...is always open, you know, and in the early morning and late evening little knots of three and four, or eight and ten, are kneeling about, quietly sayi... ...t the boots and socks. In the front of the cocoa-nut palm, there were five knots made in the long leaflets. All this is an almost certain indication t...

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... the oracle have heard: Lift the victory-flashing sword. And cut the snaky knots of this foul gordian word, Which, weak itself as stubble, yet can bin...

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.... 242: “Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Pour’ d forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain.”...

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...ces it had become gnarled and riven, according to the manner of old trees; knots started out of it; and here and there it seemed to twist itself into ... ... all laden. Splen- did cake, covered with Cupids, silver, and true-lovers’ knots. Splendid bracelet, produced by V eneering before going down, and cla... ...state of the case.’ She girded herself with a white apron, and busily with knots and pins contrived a bib to it, coming close and tight under her chin... ...nt for afterwards. ‘I won’t take one of the others,’ said Bella, tying the knots of the bundle very tight, in the severity of her resolution. ‘I’ll le...

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...d in a white cambric gown made like a wrapper, trimmed here and there with knots of blue ribbon. The pelerine, edged with the same ribbon run through ...

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... mighty ark—a humble cock-boat. When it pauses, we pause; when it runs ten knots an hour, we run with the same celerity; and as, in order to carry the...

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...y set with glittering teeth resembling ivory saws; others were tufted with knots of human hair; and one was sickle-shaped, with a vast handle sweeping... ...lecloth for a mattress, and it’s a plaguy rough board here”—feeling of the knots and notches. “But wait a bit, Skrimshander; I’ve got a carpenter’s pl... ...umbled, and the sheets down at the foot, and the coverlid almost tied into knots, and the pillow a sort of frightful hot, as though a baked brick had ...

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...r, the result of the ceaseless water drip of centuries. Under the roof vast knots of bats had packed themselves together, thousands in a bunch; the l...