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... wall that serve as windows , and exchange with their opposite neighbours compliments or blas- phemous abuse ; or , shaking their bony fists , shriek down threats and curses on the juvenile members of their kind , who roll in the gutter ...
... wall that serve as windows , and exchange with their opposite neighbours compliments or blas- phemous abuse ; or , shaking their bony fists , shriek down threats and curses on the juvenile members of their kind , who roll in the gutter ...
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... his young daughter by a display of anger , he got out as he was told , with his companions ; while an ostler drew the coach over against the wall , manoeuvring it alongside as a man who knows how to At a Black House . 35.
... his young daughter by a display of anger , he got out as he was told , with his companions ; while an ostler drew the coach over against the wall , manoeuvring it alongside as a man who knows how to At a Black House . 35.
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... walls bare and smoke- begrimed , the floor naked , except for the sack or strip of old carpet before the fenderless fire - place , round about which the squalid family huddled . You could see , as plainly as though you were within three ...
... walls bare and smoke- begrimed , the floor naked , except for the sack or strip of old carpet before the fenderless fire - place , round about which the squalid family huddled . You could see , as plainly as though you were within three ...
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... walls , and rows of forms - schoolboys ' desks- with nothing as yet more promising in view in the way of supper than several pyramids of enormous white basins at the further end , and a heap of tin spoons piled on a table . A few ladies ...
... walls , and rows of forms - schoolboys ' desks- with nothing as yet more promising in view in the way of supper than several pyramids of enormous white basins at the further end , and a heap of tin spoons piled on a table . A few ladies ...
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... walls and ceiling and floor of their dungeon spotless and wholesome . The lads had partaken of supper , and knew for a certainty that a warm breakfast would be got ready for them next morning . It did not in their case- which was ...
... walls and ceiling and floor of their dungeon spotless and wholesome . The lads had partaken of supper , and knew for a certainty that a warm breakfast would be got ready for them next morning . It did not in their case- which was ...
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