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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) The little Gardiners, attracted by the sight of a chaise, were standingon the steps of the house as they entered the paddock; and, when thecarriage drove up to the door, the joyful surprise that lighted up theirfaces, and displayed itself over their whole bodies, in a variety ofcapers and frisks, was the first pleasing earnest of their welcome.<>
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)Have you never, when struggling for your rights, your liberties, andyour privileges, been reduced, if only for an instant, to misgivingand despair? And when you have been thus depressed, has not the name ofDumkins laid afresh within your breast the fire which had just gone out;and has not a word from that man lighted it again as brightly as if ithad never expired? (Great cheering.<>
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The attachment and fervour of hisfollowers lighted up a glow of enthusiasm within him.<>
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The lightest feather I blow intothe air, against the gay chain that ornaments my body!'In one thing I was deceived with all my cunning.<>
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Her face was calm and placid; and even as I looked upon it, a tranquilsmile lighted up her pale features.<>
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Hows'ever it's lighter without it, that's one thing, and everyhole lets in some air, that's another--wentilation gossamer I calls it.<>
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It was a comfortable-looking place though, for therewas a strong, cheerful light in the bar window, which shed a bright rayacross the road, and even lighted up the hedge on the other side; andthere was a red flickering light in the opposite window, one moment butfaintly discernible, and the next gleaming strongly through the drawncurtains, which intimated that a rousing fire was blazing within.<>
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But she would quickly set him down, and hiding her face inher shawl, give vent to the tears that blinded her; for no expressionof interest or amusement lighted up his thin and sickly face.<>
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You was a lighter weight when you was a boy, sir.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) Mr. Weller knocked at the door, and after a pretty longinterval--occupied by the party without, in whistling a tune, and by theparty within, in persuading a refractory flat candle to allow itselfto be lighted--a pair of small boots pattered over the floor-cloth, andMaster Bardell presented himself.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'A little before twilight, one Christmas Eve, Gabriel shoulderedhis spade, lighted his lantern, and betook himself towards the oldchurchyard; for he had got a grave to finish by next morning, and,feeling very low, he thought it might raise his spirits, perhaps, ifhe went on with his work at once.<>
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Ho! ho!ho!"'As the goblin laughed, the sexton observed, for one instant, abrilliant illumination within the windows of the church, as if thewhole building were lighted up; it disappeared, the organ pealed fortha lively air, and whole troops of goblins, the very counterpart of thefirst one, poured into the churchyard, and began playing at leap-frogwith the tombstones, never stopping for an instant to take breath, but"overing" the highest among them, one after the other, with the mostmarvellous dexterity.<>
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There was one younggentleman in an India-rubber cloak, who smoked cigars all day; and therewas another young gentleman in a parody upon a greatcoat, who lighted agood many, and feeling obviously unsettled after the second whiff, threwthem away when he thought nobody was looking at him.<>
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Brilliant eyes, lighted up with pleasurable expectation,gleamed from every side; and, look where you would, some exquisite formglided gracefully through the throng, and was no sooner lost, than itwas replaced by another as dainty and bewitching.<>
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Seeing from this, that it wasno private document; and as it seemed to relate to Bath, and was veryshort: Mr. Pick-wick unfolded it, lighted his bedroom candle that itmight burn up well by the time he finished; and drawing his chair nearerthe fire, read as follows-- THE TRUE LEGEND OF PRINCE BLADUD'Less than two hundred years ago, on one of the public baths in thiscity, there appeared an inscription in honour of its mighty founder, therenowned Prince Bladud.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) Mr. Winkle jumped out of bed, wondering very much what could possiblybe the matter, and hastily putting on his stockings and slippers, foldedhis dressing-gown round him, lighted a flat candle from the rush-lightthat was burning in the fireplace, and hurried downstairs.<>
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Which conversation materially lightened thehours and improved the mind of Mr. Bob Sawyer's boy, who, instead ofdevoting the evening to his ordinary occupation of writing his name onthe counter, and rubbing it out again, peeped through the glass door,and thus listened and looked on at the same time.<>
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Mr. Pickwick's eyes lightened with honest exultation at his ownforesight, as he spoke thus.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) This was a room of specially dirty appearance, with a very low ceilingand old panelled walls; and so badly lighted, that although it was broadday outside, great tallow candles were burning on the desks.<>
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WHAT BEFELL Mr. PICKWICK WHEN HE GOT INTO THE FLEET; WHATPRISONERS HE SAW THERE, AND HOW HE PASSED THE NIGHTMr. Tom Roker, the gentleman who had accompanied Mr. Pickwick into theprison, turned sharp round to the right when he got to the bottom ofthe little flight of steps, and led the way, through an iron gate whichstood open, and up another short flight of steps, into a long narrowgallery, dirty and low, paved with stone, and very dimly lighted by awindow at each remote end.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'No vay,' said Mr. Weller, 'unless'--and a gleam of intelligence lightedup his countenance as he sank his voice to a whisper, and applied hismouth to the ear of his offspring--'unless it is getting him out in aturn-up bedstead, unbeknown to the turnkeys, Sammy, or dressin' him uplike a old 'ooman vith a green wail.<>
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It was a fine morning, andit occurred to Sam that a pint of porter in the open air would lightenhis next quarter of an hour or so, as well as any little amusement inwhich he could indulge.<>
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He turned here, to look about him, and hiseye lightened as he did so.<>
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There was a huge fireplace in theroom into which they walked, and the chimney was blackened with smoke;but no warm blaze lighted it up now.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) This gentleman was shown into the room originally assigned to thepatriotic Mr. Pott; and the waiter remarked, in dumb astonishment at thesingular coincidence, that he had no sooner lighted the candles thanthe gentleman, diving into his hat, drew forth a newspaper, and beganto read it with the very same expression of indignant scorn, which,upon the majestic features of Pott, had paralysed his energies an hourbefore.<>
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I wish this wall were a little lower, or I were a little lighter;but it's got to be tried.<>
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It was simply the factthat the grey landscape had never been entirely grey; there was one goldspot amid its stripes of colourless colour, a lamp lighted in one of thehouses on the other side of the green-Something, perhaps irrational,told him that it had been burning through all the hours of the darknessand was only fading with the dawn.<>
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She had become, in a new andvery different sense, a tragedy queen--her lightest word was law andwhile she moved about slowly and sadly, they ran her many errands.<>
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Itseemed, somehow, like the green twilight of a tank; but there was lightenough to see the rough apparatus of a barber's shop and the pale andeven panic-sticken face of a barber.<>
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