| Charles Dickens - Domestic fiction - 1853 - 730 pages
...tens of thousands of other foot passengers have been slipping and sliding since the day broke (if the day ever broke), adding new deposits to the crust...shipping, and the waterside pollutions of a great fand dirty) city. Fog on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Fog creeping into the cabooses... | |
| 1853 - 566 pages
...these points tenaciously to the pavement, and accumulating at compound interest. " Fog every where. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows ; fog down the river, where it rolls denied among the tiers of shipping, and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. Fog on... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1873 - 384 pages
...might imagine, for the death of the sun. Dogs, nudistinguishable in mire. Horses, scarcely bettor; splashed to their very blinkers. Foot passengers,...aits and meadows ; fog down the river, where it rolls denied among the tiers of shipping, and the water-side pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. Fog... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1873 - 574 pages
...day broke (if this day ever broke), adding new deposits to the crust upon crust of mud, •ticking at those points tenaciously to the pavement, and accumulating...aits and meadows ; fog down the river, where it rolls denied among the tiers of shipping, and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. Fog on... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1876 - 862 pages
...ill-temper, and losing their foot-hold at street-corners, where tens of thousands of other foot-passengers have been slipping and sliding since the day broke...aits and meadows ; fog down the river, where it rolls denied among the tiers of shipping, and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. Fog on... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1880 - 922 pages
...passengers have been slipping and sliding since the day broke (if this day ever broke), adding new depdsits to the crust upon crust of mud, sticking at those...flows among green aits and meadows ; fog down the fiver, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping, and the waterside pollutions -of a great... | |
| Walter Harriman - Middle East - 1883 - 374 pages
...mistiness of the great High Court of Chancery, in the case of " Jarndyce v. Jarndyce." These are his words: "Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows...aits and meadows ; fog down the river, where it rolls denied among the tiers of shipping, and the water-side pollutions of a great city. Fog on the Essex... | |
| John Ogilvie - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1883 - 734 pages
...aisled church. Alt (at), n. [Another form of e yot, an islet.] A small island in a river or lake. ' Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows.' Dickens. Aitchbone (ach'bon), n. Edgebone (which see). Aitch-plece, H-plece (ach'pes), n. That part... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1884 - 964 pages
...another's umbrellas, in a general infection of ill-temper, and losing their foothold at street-corners, where tens of thousands of other foot passengers have...aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls denied among the tiers of shipping, and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. Fog on... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1884 - 898 pages
...another's umbrellas, in a general infection of ill-temper, and losing their foot-hold at street-corners, where tens of thousands of other foot passengers have...where it flows among green aits and meadows ; fog clown the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping, and the waterside polutions of... | |
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