A great sensation, Volum 2Hurst&Blackett, 1862 |
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Pàgina 14
... hands — and that's the long and the short of the matter . " Lady Goodwin . " I'll waste no more time on a castaway like you , John . " Sir John . " Is that how you mean to get out of helping Madame Guarini to help herself ? Well , it ...
... hands — and that's the long and the short of the matter . " Lady Goodwin . " I'll waste no more time on a castaway like you , John . " Sir John . " Is that how you mean to get out of helping Madame Guarini to help herself ? Well , it ...
Pàgina 20
... hands frightened her nearly out of her wits . Its title was , " Steps on the ladder descending to perdition , " and its main tendency was to prove that those steps were worn by the feet of beauty blindly fated to eternal damnation ...
... hands frightened her nearly out of her wits . Its title was , " Steps on the ladder descending to perdition , " and its main tendency was to prove that those steps were worn by the feet of beauty blindly fated to eternal damnation ...
Pàgina 23
... hand . They walked in silence into the old gallery , when the following conver- sation took place : Edgar . " I thought you were to be at Perringston ? " Rupert . " So I was ; but I sent an excuse -of course I did . I sent it this ...
... hand . They walked in silence into the old gallery , when the following conver- sation took place : Edgar . " I thought you were to be at Perringston ? " Rupert . " So I was ; but I sent an excuse -of course I did . I sent it this ...
Pàgina 34
... hands with a single transverse pull , and put on their hats , sloping foreheadwards , from the back of the head . And since the religious self ever suffers secondarily from the causes which embitter the moral self , and since faith in ...
... hands with a single transverse pull , and put on their hats , sloping foreheadwards , from the back of the head . And since the religious self ever suffers secondarily from the causes which embitter the moral self , and since faith in ...
Pàgina 40
... hands impocketed , his eyes staring full and round - copious of pre- tentious emptiness ) . " The present man's rather a muff , ain't he ? I met him last year at Rome . I don't think much of him ? " Sir John ( in a distinct undertone ) ...
... hands impocketed , his eyes staring full and round - copious of pre- tentious emptiness ) . " The present man's rather a muff , ain't he ? I met him last year at Rome . I don't think much of him ? " Sir John ( in a distinct undertone ) ...
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Frases i termes més freqüents
acute Dowager answered Rupert beauty beg your pardon better brother Cadogan Place Carlsbad carriage cat's-paw Caterina CHAPTER cheek Constance countenance course daresay daugh door drawing-room Edgar Edith Ernsford Court eyes fact feel Francesca da Rimini gallery gone Grahame Grahame's Grosvenor Square half hand hear heard heart hobbledehoy hope horse hour idle pairs instant Jemima Kensington Gardens Lady Goodwin Lady Ravensdale less London look Lord Elfin Lord Elfintower Lord Elfintower's Lord Ravensdale Lord Sevenoaks mean mind minutes Molini Moorfield morning mysterious lady never o'clock passed pause Perringston position Pre-Raphaelite Ravensdale's recognised replied rose round Schönbeck seen Sir John Campion slapping fine woman slowly soon sorrow sort South Eastern Railway Spuckers stance stood suppose sure talk tell there's thing thought tion told tone turned Twinbriggles voice walked watching week whilst wish words
Passatges populars
Pàgina 51 - tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door ; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve : ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o...
Pàgina 6 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Pàgina 5 - tis not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come : the readiness is all...
Pàgina 209 - Amor, ma tu allor più m'informe A seguir d'una fera che mi strugge La voce ei passi e l'orme, E lei non stringi, che s'appiatta e fugge.
Pàgina 41 - Sunt quibus in satira videar nimis acer et ultra legem tendere opus; sine nervis altera quidquid composui pars esse putat, similisque meorum mille die versus deduci posse. Trebati, quid faciam praescribe. 'quiescas.
Pàgina 193 - I can't think who can have put such an idea into your head.
Pàgina 261 - You are like a young bear : you have all your troubles before you.
Pàgina 14 - I have no more to do with her than the man in the moon; but I know all about her, and I wish to be of use to her if I can.