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... a pity to go in. The garden looks so lovely.” They lingered side by side, surveying their domain. There was not space in it, at this hour, for the sh...

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...nder forth at night, even in this tempestuous season, and feel pleasure in surveying the dreadful scenes around me. Yesterday evening I went forth. A ...

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...d to Ahab that wild exclamation of his, when one morning turning away from surveying poor Queequeg—”Oh, devilish tantalization of the gods!” 460 Moby...

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...er Buonaventure was again silent for a moment or two, which he employed in surveying the letter with the strictest attention; then stepped to the wind...

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..., then liberty. Ah, my friend!” said the abbe, turning towards Dantes, and surveying him with the kindling gaze of a prophet, “you are young, you will...

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...y well pleased, both with my prop- erty and its situation. While I was yet surveying it with growing content, I espied, at one of the upper lattices w...

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... Ask me no more: the truth is known to none, Save the earth fostering, all surveying Sun. Aeschylus 25 LEADER Say, by what doom the fleet of Greece w...

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...e answered, and continued his work; moving his lantern jaws meanwhile, and surveying my dress and countenance (the former a great deal too fine, but t... ... recluse; and, apparently, perfectly contented. Some- times, indeed, while surveying the country from her nursery window, she would observe— ‘Ellen, h... ... and entrust your message to me.’ ‘Which is his rahm?’ pursued the fellow, surveying the range of closed doors. I perceived he was bent on refusing my... ...I am not like him, am I?’ ‘Not much,’ I answered: not a morsel, I thought, surveying with regret the white complexion and slim frame of my com- panion... ... idea of relieving his embarrassment, took up my station in the door- way, surveying the external prospect as I stood. He followed my example, and lef... ...ted his arms on the table, and looked at the opposite wall, as I supposed, surveying one particular portion, up and down, with glittering, restless ey...

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... here.” She reflected for a moment on the word. “It isn’t that,” she said, surveying him. “I oughtn’t to get over the wall,” she explained. “It’s out ... ...he old woman must be there alone. He went back to the shop front and stood surveying it in infi- nite perplexity. The other activities in the street d... ... bleeding, but indomitable, Uncle Jim entered the house. “Bolls!” he said, surveying the bar. “Fightin’ with bolls! I’ll show ‘im fightin’ with bolls!...

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...his remark, that the young man could only smile in silence, while Seymour, surveying the very plain exterior of his new acquaintance, turned his eyes ...

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...domitable warriors of different nations, riding two and two, and haughtily surveying the tame population of Modena: among whom, however, they occasion... ...ot (the drollest generally) in fantastic exag gerations of court dresses, surveying the throng through enormous eye glasses, and always transported w...

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...ating by himself, seated on a shot-box of the upper gun deck, now and then surveying with a somewhat cynical regard certain of the more swaggering pro...

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...gard to his own advantage or necessities. ‘Oh, Chiv, Chiv!’ added Mr Tigg, surveying his adopted brother with an air of profound contemplation after d... ...t he was going to Salisbury. ‘And how spruce you are, too!’ said Mr Pinch, surveying him with great pleasure. ‘Really, I didn’t think you were half su... ... his might, with dog and hatchet, goat-skin cap and fowling-pieces; calmly surveying Philip Quarn and the host of imitators round him, and calling Mr ... ...a- tion,’ said Mr Pecksniff, ‘Thomas Pinch will instruct you in the art of surveying the back garden, or in ascertaining the dead level of the road be... ...she came. In her other hand she bore a flaming tallow candle, which, after surveying Mr Pecksniff for one instant by its light, she put down upon the ... ..., he had escaped with life. ‘And with not too much of that,’ thought Mark, surveying his emaciated form. ‘Eden for ever!’ They had some medicine in th... ... sir,’ said Ruth Pinch, timidly presenting Tom. ‘Oh!’ cried the gentleman, surveying Tom attentively. ‘You really are Miss Pinch’s brother, I presume?... ...e never saw one man come or another go), stood aside in a porch, fearfully surveying the multitude; in which there were many faces that he knew, and m... ...’re talking to, ma’am?’ inquired her visitor. ‘Aperiently,’ said Mrs Gamp, surveying her with scorn from head to foot, ‘to Betsey Prig. Aperiently so....

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... pounds more than he had ever hoped to get with her. “Gad! Jane,” said he, surveying even the elder sister with some interest, “Eels will be sorry he ... ...bin’s room, and his own hard by— “Y ou ain’t got young,” John said, calmly surveying his friend of former days. Dobbin laughed. “Ten years and a fever... ...with all her voice, brought up those wor- thy people, who had already been surveying the Major from the casement of the ornamental kitchen, and were a... ...esty: it was, on the contrary, much perturbed and puzzled in look. Jos was surveying the queer little apartment in which he found his old flame. One o... ...rning of Waterloo, as the young men stood together in front of their line, surveying the black masses of Frenchmen who crowned the opposite heights, a... ...e, Amelia,” said Becky, marching up and down the room before the other and surveying her with a sort of contemptuous kindness. “I want to talk to you....

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... his right arm to his left, dropped into a comfortable attitude, and stood surveying the guest while he ate and drank, as from an observatory or watch... ...t clerk deliberately folded and superscribed the note, Mr. Cruncher, after surveying him in silence until he came to the blotting paper stage, remarke... ...you young Rip? This boy is a getting too many for me!” said Mr. Cruncher, surveying him. “Him and his hooroars! Don’t let me hear no more of you, or ...

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...!’ said the dwarf, who with his hand stretched out above his eyes had been surveying the young man at The Old Curiosity Shop – Dickens 24 tentively... ...ssively, walked up and down in a measured tread and very stately man ner, surveying the caravan from time to time with an air of calm delight, and de... ...‘Who knows but he may be looking down upon us now! Who knows but he may be surveying of us from—from somewheres or another, and contemplating us with ... ...e likeness of some enemy. He was not very long in doubt; for, while he was surveying it with that knowing look which people as sume when they are con...

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...dy.” “Did he sleep here?” said Mrs. Cheyne, sitting on a yellow locker and surveying the disorderly bunks. “No. He berthed forward, madam, an’ only fe...

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...in nodded assent; and Paul had enough to do, for the rest of that day , in surveying Master Bitherstone from 110 Dombey & Son head to foot, and watch... ...hat she sat upright on the hard edge of the bedstead, breathing short, and surveying her informant with looks of undisguised alarm. Mrs Wickam shook h... ...nfortunate wooden Midshipman, with his instrument at his eye, seemed to be surveying the whole hori- zon in search of some friend to help him out of h... ...g ward from the Doctor’s hands; and Paul, feeling that the spectacles were surveying him, cast down his eyes. ‘How old are you, Dombey?’ said Miss Bli... ...eased, 183 Charles Dickens as he stood leaning against the chimney-piece, surveying his (of course unconscious) clerk, from head to foot. The stiff- ... ... lady , curling her handsome lip. At this hint, the wan page, who had been surveying the party over the top of the chair, vanished behind it, as if th... ... o your husband, poor wretch, this was well enough—’ ‘Why , if,’ she said, surveying him with a haughty contempt 757 Charles Dickens and disgust, tha...

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... general reading, you ve took to general writing, eh, sir? said Mr. Omer, surveying me admiringly. What a lovely work that was of yours! What expres... ...ng their glasses at the sea from behind places of shelter, as if they were surveying an enemy. The tremendous sea itself, when I could find sufficient... ...d relieved when he had got it safe back. Dear me, sir! said Mr. Chillip, surveying me with his head on one side. And it s Mr. Copperfield, is it? W...

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...essel’s apartment to see the state of affairs. “This settles it,” he said, surveying the lunatic confu- sion. “I didn’t know of this. Mr. Bessel’s gon...

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... say you would see that man again. Be warned; don’t you do so.” He turned, surveying the speaker; a blue-eyed man, sandy- haired, and Saxon-looking; p...

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...treaming brightly through the open bamboos, but no one was stirring. After surveying the fine attitudes into which forgetfulness had thrown at least o...

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...count the men on our fingers; often are we, as it were, an episcopal thumb surveying scarce that number of followers! He diverged to censure of the ma...

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...of these seats to the test, found himself, from an angle of the ball-room, surveying the scene with frank enjoyment. The company, in obedience to the ...

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...sed. He acquiesced in the suggestion; and we immediately, therefore, began surveying the country lying before us, with a view of determining upon the ...

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... slightly bowed to the ladies, without speaking a word, and, after briefly surveying them and their apartments, took up a newspaper from the table, an...

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...e, well proportioned room, handsomely fitted up. Elizabeth, after slightly surveying it, went to a window to enjoy its prospect. The hill, crowned wit...

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...ay. Probably the extent of their large pasture farms, and the necessity of surveying them rapidly, first introduced this custom; or a very zealous ant...

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...e next winter there— that was very well; but meantime there was no harm in surveying the field. There were ten days left of the beau- tiful month of M...

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...his boy , for God’ s sake?’ inquired Ralph, wheel- ing back his chair, and surveying his nephew from head to foot with intense scorn. ‘Nicholas is ver... ...ertainly not,’ added everybody . ‘I remember my niece,’ said Mr Lillyvick, surveying his au- dience with a grave air; ‘I remember her, on that very af... ...have been far from the truth,’ rejoined Nicholas. ‘Eh?’ cried the old man, surveying him from head to foot. ‘What! Dear me! No, no. W ell-behaved youn... ...pe you’ll not bear any to me.’ Miss Squeers made no more direct reply than surveying her former friend from top to toe, and elevating her nose in the ... ... Ralph, drawing his hand across his mouth with a connoisseur-like air, and surveying the house from top to bottom; ‘these people look pretty well. The... ...n each visit to its shelves. ‘The snuff-coloured suit,’ said Arthur Gride, surveying a threadbare coat. ‘Did I look well in snuff-colour? Let me think... ...inwater alone. ‘My name’s Nickleby,’ said Ralph. ‘I know it,’ replied Tim, surveying him through his spec- tacles. ‘Which of your firm was it who call...

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...sed within view of a castle, where they saw a lady standing on a turret, and surveying the whole extent of the valley through which they were passing....

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...ou now, at a average rate of going, to be a Judge?’ asked Mr Boffin, after surveying his small stature in silence. The boy answered that he had not ye... ...ing flow- ers on the rosy hours and on the staircase, and that T wemlow is surveying the ground on which he is to play his distin- guished part to-mor... ...d an unacknowledged member of that gentleman’ s family. Whom Lady Tippins, surveying through her eye-glass, considers a fine man, and quite a catch; a... ...d lo the rest of the characters. Whom Lady Tippins, standing on a cushion, surveying through the eye-glass, thus checks off. ‘Bride; five-and-forty if... ...oes it really strike you in that point of view, my dear?’ said her father, surveying it artistically with his head on one side: ‘that’s mine. That’s c... ...s eminently facetious on the subject of these Fathers of the Scrip-Church: surveying them through her eye- glass, and inquiring whether Boots and Brew... ...u some- thing.’ ‘Much obliged. But what?’ ‘I could make you,’ said Sloppy, surveying the room, ‘I could make you a handy set of nests to lay the dolls...

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...hers of themselves and latter ends. Suwarrow chiefly was on the alert, Surveying, drilling, ordering, jesting, pondering; For the man was, we ...

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... at the table and let us drink. Nothing makes the future look so bright as surveying it through a glass of chambertin.” “That’s all very well,” replie...

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...ells key I found in the lock within, and stood with the candle held aloft, surveying the scene of my vigil, the great red room of Lorraine Castle, in ...

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.... In my dreadful situation, it was a relief when he was brought back, and, surveying the company all round as if they had disagreed with him, sank dow... ...ich he had got into the pantry . Mr. Pumblechook made out, after carefully surveying the premises, that he had first got upon the roof of the forge, a... ...mplied, he, not comprehend- ing a single word, would stand before the fire surveying me with the air of an Exhibitor, and I would see him, between the... ...to a dusty corner while everybody danced a hornpipe; and from that corner, surveying the public with a discontented eye, became aware of me. The secon...

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...planted garden. I descended a little on the side of that deli- cious vale, surveying it with a secret kind of pleasure, though mixed with my other aff...

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... mountain goats we bounded further and further up. I stopped for a second, surveying our little valley and its beautiful pond, the sun shining off of ...

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... that you are going to let her marry?” Mrs. Cadwallader’s mind was rapidly surveying the possibilities of choice for Dorothea. But here Celia entered,... ... who brought in coffee and buttered toast; while he walked round the table surveying the ham, pot- ted beef, and other cold remnants, with an air of s... ...eerful when Celia was seated there in a pelisse exactly like her sister’s, surveying the cameos with a placid satisfaction, while the con- versation p... ...orothea was amazed to think of the bird-like speed with which his mind was surveying the ground where it had been creeping for years. At last he said—... ...I will tell you what, Mistress Mary—it will be rather harder work to learn surveying and drawing plans than it would have been to write sermons,” he h...

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...y mind, though no word was spoken, the Holy Spirit impressed me that I was surveying my own soul. Then, for the first time in all my life, did I know ...