 | 1853 - 566 pagini
...wonderful to meet a Megalosaurian, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making...foothold at street-corners, where tens of thousands of oiher foot passengers have been slipping and sliding since the day broke, (if the day ever broke,)... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1853 - 730 pagini
...to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn-hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft...the sun. Dogs, undistinguishable in mire. Horses, scareely better ; splashed to their very blinkers. Foot passengers, jostling one another's umbrellas,... | |
 | Charles Dickens, Ich (pseud) - 1856 - 208 pagini
...to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holbornhill. Smoke lowering down from chimneypots, making a soft...infection of ill-temper, and losing their foot-hold at street corners, where tens of thousands of other foot passengers have been slipping and sliding since... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1870 - 1276 pagini
...or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn-hill. Smoke lowering down from chiraney-pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in...tens of thousands of other foot passengers have been slipjing and sliding since the day broke (if this day evei iroke;, adding new deposits to the crust... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1871 - 484 pagini
...to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holbom-hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft...full-grown snow-flakes — gone into mourning, one might BLEAK HOUSE, i. imagine, for the death of the sun. Dogs, undistinguishable in mire. Horses, scarcely... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1873 - 384 pagini
...or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney -pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in...one might imagine, for the death of the sun. Dogs, nudistinguishable in mire. Horses, scarcely bettor; splashed to their very blinkers. Foot passengers,... | |
 | 1872 - 692 pagini
...Not at the " Oliver Twist " stage of genius could he have written thus of a foggy November day : " Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft...as full-grown snow-flakes — gone into mourning, ono might imagine, for the death of the sun ; " or thus about shop-windows on the same occasion : "... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1873 - 574 pagini
...waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn-hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, makiug a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as...•mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the Bun. Dogs, undistinguishsble in mire. Horses, scarcely better ; splashed to their very blinkers. Foot... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1875 - 692 pagini
...to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn-hilL Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft...tens of thousands of other foot passengers have been slipting and sliding since the day broke (if this day evei iroke;, adding new deposits to the crust... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1876 - 862 pagini
...to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard tip Holborn-hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft...at street-corners, where tens of thousands of other foot-passengers have been slipping and sliding since the day broke (if this day ever broke), adding... | |
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Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn... 
