Novels of George Eliot, Issue 35, Volume 5William Blackwood & Sons, 1867 |
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... side of an olive - green gig . They probably thought of the coach with some contempt , as an accommodation for people who had not their own gigs , or who , wanting to travel to London and such distant places , belonged to the trading ...
... side of an olive - green gig . They probably thought of the coach with some contempt , as an accommodation for people who had not their own gigs , or who , wanting to travel to London and such distant places , belonged to the trading ...
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... side by grand larches , oaks , and wych elms , which sometimes opened so far as to let the traveller see that there was a park behind them . How many times in the year , as the coach rolled past the neglected - looking lodges which ...
... side by grand larches , oaks , and wych elms , which sometimes opened so far as to let the traveller see that there was a park behind them . How many times in the year , as the coach rolled past the neglected - looking lodges which ...
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... side of a steep hill not far off the lodge gates , the elder matrons sat in their best gowns at the few cottage doors bordering the road , that they might be ready to get up and make their curtsy when a travelling carriage should come ...
... side of a steep hill not far off the lodge gates , the elder matrons sat in their best gowns at the few cottage doors bordering the road , that they might be ready to get up and make their curtsy when a travelling carriage should come ...
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... side of the house , you would never have guessed that an arrival was expected . But on the west side , where the carriage entrance was , the gates under the stone archway were thrown open ; and so was the double door of the entrance ...
... side of the house , you would never have guessed that an arrival was expected . But on the west side , where the carriage entrance was , the gates under the stone archway were thrown open ; and so was the double door of the entrance ...
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... side a fine black retriever , also old , sat on its haunches , and watched him as he went to and fro . But when Mrs Transome appeared within the doorway , her husband paused in his work and shrank like a timid animal looked at in a cage ...
... side a fine black retriever , also old , sat on its haunches , and watched him as he went to and fro . But when Mrs Transome appeared within the doorway , her husband paused in his work and shrank like a timid animal looked at in a cage ...
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Page 328 - ... good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Page 8 - But these things are often unknown to the world ; for there is much pain that is quite noiseless ; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.
Page 44 - ... there is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life, from the time when the primeval milkmaid had to wander with the wanderings of her clan, because the cow she milked was one of a herd which had made the pastures bare.
Page 55 - My father was ignorant," said Felix, bluntly. "He knew neither the complication of the human system, nor the way in which drugs counteract each other. Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm. I know something about these things.
Page 166 - For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities — a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces — a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.
Page 64 - A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs, and small notions, about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest. Ask your father what those old persecuted emigrant Puritans would have done with fine-lady wives and daughters.
Page 335 - Fond -man, remember that thou hast a wife ; Then how can Margaret be thy paramour ? Mar.
Page 274 - Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand Henceforward in thy shadow. Nevermore Alone upon the threshold of my door Of individual life, I shall command The uses of my soul, nor lift my hand Serenely in the sunshine as before, Without the sense of that which I forbore — Thy touch upon the palm.
Page 167 - It is a good and soothfast saw;' Half-roasted never will be raw; No dough is dried once more to meal No crock new-shapen by the wheel; You can't turn curds to milk again, Nor Now, by wishing, back to Then; And having tasted stolen honey, You can't buy innocence for money.