 | Andreas Fischer - 1994 - 276 pagini
...wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill. Smoke lowering down from chimneypots, making...one might imagine, for the death of the sun. Dogs, undist inguishablc in mire. Horses, scarcely better; splashed to their very blinkers. Foot passengers,... | |
 | Adrian J. Desmond, James Richard Moore - 1994 - 910 pagini
...Paris. But Charles was choked by the fog and smoke. Dark clouds descended from chimney-stacks like 'a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as...mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun.' Coal smouldered in every grate. Coal, 'hell's own fuel, torn from the bowels of the earth.' It left... | |
 | David Amigoni - 1995 - 228 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 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... | |
 | Deborah Anne Dooley - 1995 - 304 pagini
...Chuzzlewit, it is "this crowd of objects" (162), and in Bleak House: "Smoke lowering down from chimney pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full grown snow flakes — gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun. . . . Fog... | |
 | John Harvey - 1995 - 292 pagini
...influence, but still has 'the dirtiest and darkest streets that ever were seen in the world', with 'smoke lowering down from chimneypots, making a soft...mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun'. London buildings, in Great Expectations, wear a 'frowsy mourning of soot and smoke'. The soot itself... | |
 | Lenora Ledwon - 1996 - 522 pagini
...wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney,pots, making...mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the son. Dogs, undistinguishable in mire. Horses, scarcely bener; splashed to their very blinkers. Foot... | |
 | Lenora Ledwon - 1996 - 524 pagini
...wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holbom Hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney,pots, making...flakes of soot in it as big as full,grown snowflakes — gime into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun. Dogs, undistinguishable in mire.... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - 613 pagini
...wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making...for the death of the sun. Dogs, undistinguishable in the mire. Horses, scarcely better; splashed to their very blinkers. Foot passengers, jostling one another's... | |
 | Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad - 1996 - 562 pagini
...Charles Dickens opened his novel Bleak House (1852) with this description of nineteenth-century London: Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft...drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snow flakes — gone into mourning . . . for the sun. . . . Fog everywhere. . . . Fog in the eyes and... | |
 | Nancy Armstrong - 2002 - 354 pagini
...wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making...one might imagine, for the death of the sun. Dogs, indistinguishable in mire. Horses scarcely better; splashed to their very blinkers. Foot passengers... | |
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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... 
