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She could not imagine what business he could have in townso soon after his arrival in Hertfordshire; and she began to fear thathe might be always flying about from one place to another, and neversettled at Netherfield as he ought to be.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) "Do you not think it would be a proper compliment to the place?""It is a compliment which I never pay to any place if I can avoid it.<>
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I do not know a place in thecountry that is equal to Netherfield.<>
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Elizabeth made noanswer, and took her place in the set, amazed at the dignity to whichshe was arrived in being allowed to stand opposite to Mr. Darcy, andreading in her neighbours' looks, their equal amazement in beholdingit.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) "Indeed, Mr. Bennet," said she, "it is very hard to think that CharlotteLucas should ever be mistress of this house, that I should be forced tomake way for her, and live to see her take her place in it!""My dear, do not give way to such gloomy thoughts.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) "And that is quite impossible; for he is now in the custody of hisfriend, and Mr. Darcy would no more suffer him to call on Jane in sucha part of London! My dear aunt, how could you think of it? Mr. Darcy mayperhaps have heard of such a place as Gracechurch Street, but hewould hardly think a month's ablution enough to cleanse him from itsimpurities, were he once to enter it; and depend upon it, Mr. Bingleynever stirs without him.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) But in spite of the certainty in which Elizabeth affected to place thispoint, as well as the still more interesting one of Bingley's beingwithheld from seeing Jane, she felt a solicitude on the subject whichconvinced her, on examination, that she did not consider it entirelyhopeless.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) "If he means to be but little at Netherfield, it would be better forthe neighbourhood that he should give up the place entirely, for then wemight possibly get a settled family there.<>
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Long before it had taken place my opinion of you wasdecided.<>
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On the contrary, every particularrelative to his sister was meant to be kept as much as possible tomyself; and if I endeavour to undeceive people as to the rest of hisconduct, who will believe me? The general prejudice against Mr. Darcyis so violent, that it would be the death of half the good people inMeryton to attempt to place him in an amiable light.<>
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Gardiner expressedan inclination to see the place again.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) "My love, should not you like to see a place of which you have heardso much?" said her aunt; "a place, too, with which so many of youracquaintances are connected.<>
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Shehad never seen a place for which nature had done more, or where naturalbeauty had been so little counteracted by an awkward taste.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) "In what an amiable light does this place him!" thought Elizabeth.<>
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Mr. Darcy took her place by her niece, and they walked ontogether.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) The next variation which their visit afforded was produced by theentrance of servants with cold meat, cake, and a variety of all thefinest fruits in season; but this did not take place till after manya significant look and smile from Mrs.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) "He meant I believe," replied Jane, "to go to Epsom, the place wherethey last changed horses, see the postilions and try if anything couldbe made out from them.<>
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She then joined them soon enough to see Lydia, withanxious parade, walk up to her mother's right hand, and hear her sayto her eldest sister, "Ah! Jane, I take your place now, and you must golower, because I am a married woman.<>
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That is the place to gethusbands.<>
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It was reasonable that he should feel he had beenwrong; he had liberality, and he had the means of exercising it; andthough she would not place herself as his principal inducement, shecould, perhaps, believe that remaining partiality for her might assisthis endeavours in a cause where her peace of mind must be materiallyconcerned.<>
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Jane resolutelykept her place at the table; but Elizabeth, to satisfy her mother, wentto the window--she looked,--she saw Mr. Darcy with him, and sat downagain by her sister.<>
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People did sayyou meant to quit the place entirely at Michaelmas; but, however, I hopeit is not true.<>
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to Miss Lydia Bennet,' without there being asyllable said of her father, or the place where she lived, or anything.<>
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They are gone down toNewcastle, a place quite northward, it seems, and there they are to stayI do not know how long.<>
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Seriously, however, she felt tolerablypersuaded that all this must have taken place with that gentleman'sconcurrence.<>
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Mr.Collins moreover adds, 'I am truly rejoiced that my cousin Lydia's sadbusiness has been so well hushed up, and am only concerned that theirliving together before the marriage took place should be so generallyknown.<>
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Your lively talents would place you in thegreatest danger in an unequal marriage.<>
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I am sure Wickham would like a place at court very much, and I do notthink we shall have quite money enough to live upon without some help.<>
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Any place would do, of about three or four hundred a year; but however,do not speak to Mr. Darcy about it, if you had rather not.<>
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They were always moving from place to place in quest of a cheapsituation, and always spending more than they ought.<>
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He was wholly unacquainted with the place and its inhabitants, and thestranger seemed to possess as great a knowledge of both as if he hadlived there from his infancy.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'Will you refer me to a friend, to arrange the time and place ofmeeting?' said the officer.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'Snodgrass,' he said, in a voice tremulous with emotion, 'if I fall,you will find in a packet which I shall place in your hands a note formy--for my father.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'We may place our men, then, I think,' observed the officer, with asmuch indifference as if the principals were chess-men, and the secondsplayers.<>
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The sick man was lyingwith his face turned towards the wall; and as he took no heed of mypresence, I had leisure to observe the place in which I found myself.<>
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Atlength he fell into that state of partial unconsciousness, in whichthe mind wanders uneasily from scene to scene, and from place to place,without the control of reason, but still without being able to divestitself of an indescribable sense of present suffering.<>
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A grand review was to take place upon thelines.<>
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There weresentries posted to keep the ground for the troops, and servants on thebatteries keeping places for the ladies, and sergeants running to andfro, with vellum-covered books under their arms, and Colonel Bulder, infull military uniform, on horseback, galloping first to one place andthen to another, and backing his horse among the people, and prancing,and curvetting, and shouting in a most alarming manner, and makinghimself very hoarse in the voice, and very red in the face, without anyassignable cause or reason whatever.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) It was a curious little green box on four wheels, with a low place likea wine-bin for two behind, and an elevated perch for one in front, drawnby an immense brown horse, displaying great symmetry of bone.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) It was late in the afternoon when the four friends and their four-footedcompanion turned into the lane leading to Manor Farm; and even whenthey were so near their place of destination, the pleasure they wouldotherwise have experienced was materially damped as they reflectedon the singularity of their appearance, and the absurdity of theirsituation.<>
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I heard, with pity andcompassion, the repentant man devise a thousand little plans for hercomfort and support when he returned; but I knew that many months beforehe could reach his place of destination, his mother would be no longerof this world.<>
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A few weeks afterwards the poorwoman's soul took its flight, I confidently hope, and solemnly believe,to a place of eternal happiness and rest.<>
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The place seemed smaller than it used to be; but there were theold monuments on which he had gazed with childish awe a thousand times;the little pulpit with its faded cushion; the Communion table beforewhich he had so often repeated the Commandments he had reverenced asa child, and forgotten as a man.<>
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What washis loneliness in the wild, thick woods, where man was never seen, tothis!'He felt that in the distant land of his bondage and infamy, he hadthought of his native place as it was when he left it; and not as itwould be when he returned.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'This way,' said the first speaker; 'they notch in here--it's thebest place in the whole field;' and the cricketer, panting on before,preceded them to the tent.<>
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If Mr. Jingle, from his place of concealment, could have beheld theexpression which the old lady's face assumed at this communication, theprobability is that a sudden burst of laughter would have betrayed hisclose vicinity to the summer-house.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'Discover--nonsense--too much shaken by the break-down--besides--extremecaution--gave up the post-chaise--walked on--took a hackney-coach--cameto the Borough--last place in the world that he'd look in--ha!ha!--capital notion that--very.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) The little man seemed rather baffled by these several repulses, and ashort consultation took place between him and the two plump gentlemen.<>
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At its conclusion, the little man took a pinch of snuff from anoblong silver box, and was apparently on the point of renewing theconversation, when one of the plump gentlemen, who in addition to abenevolent countenance, possessed a pair of spectacles, and a pair ofblack gaiters, interfered--'The fact of the matter is,' said the benevolent gentleman, 'that myfriend here (pointing to the other plump gentleman) will give you half aguinea, if you'll answer one or two--Now, my dear sir--my dear Sir,' said the little man, 'pray, allowme--my dear Sir, the very first principle to be observed in these cases,is this: if you place the matter in the hands of a professional man,you must in no way interfere in the progress of the business; you mustrepose implicit confidence in him.<>
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We must leave this place directly,' said Mr. Pickwick, as he refoldedthe note.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) The hour and the place were both favourable to contemplation; Mr.Pickwick was roused by the church clock striking twelve.<>
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That figure never moves; it never frowns and mouths as others do, thatfill this place sometimes; but it is much more dreadful to me, eventhan the spirits that tempted me many years ago--it comes fresh from thegrave; and is so very death-like.<>
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A few days after, they told me I must place herunder some restraint: I must provide a keeper for her.<>
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SOME ACCOUNT OF EATANSWILL; OF THE STATE OF PARTIESTHEREIN; AND OF THE ELECTION OF A MEMBER TO SERVE IN PARLIAMENT FOR THATANCIENT, LOYAL, AND PATRIOTIC BOROUGHWe will frankly acknowledge that, up to the period of our being firstimmersed in the voluminous papers of the Pickwick Club, we had neverheard of Eatanswill; we will with equal candour admit that we have invain searched for proof of the actual existence of such a place at thepresent day.<>
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We are therefore led to believe that Mr. Pickwick, withthat anxious desire to abstain from giving offence to any, and withthose delicate feelings for which all who knew him well know he was soeminently remarkable, purposely substituted a fictitious designation,for the real name of the place in which his observations were made.<>
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So it WAS made; andafter dinner together at the Town Arms, the friends separated, Mr.Tupman and Mr. Snodgrass repairing to the Peacock, and Mr. Pickwickand Mr. Winkle proceeding to the mansion of Mr. Pott; it having beenpreviously arranged that they should all reassemble at the Town Arms inthe morning, and accompany the Honourable Samuel Slumkey's procession tothe place of nomination.<>
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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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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'Up a wide and ancient staircase the smart girl preceded Tom, shadingthe chamber candle with her hand, to protect it from the currents of airwhich in such a rambling old place might have found plenty of room todisport themselves in, without blowing the candle out, but which didblow it out nevertheless--thus affording Tom's enemies an opportunity ofasserting that it was he, and not the wind, who extinguished the candle,and that while he pretended to be blowing it alight again, he was infact kissing the girl.<>
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A casual observer might have supposedhe did it, only to show his white teeth; but Tom Smart thought that aconsciousness of triumph was passing through the place where the tallman's mind would have been, if he had had any.<>
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Permit me, sir, to place in a conspicuous part of thelist the name of Mr. Pickwick, and his brother-members of the club thatderives its name from him.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'And what sort of a place have you got?' inquired Sam, as he filled hiscompanion's glass, for the second time.<>
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The onlyeye-sore in the whole place was another cousin of Maria Lobbs's, and abrother of Kate, whom Maria Lobbs called "Henry," and who seemed tokeep Maria Lobbs all to himself, up in one corner of the table.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) Meanwhile, Mr. Winkle flashed, and blazed, and smoked away, withoutproducing any material results worthy of being noted down; sometimesexpending his charge in mid-air, and at others sending it skimming alongso near the surface of the ground as to place the lives of the twodogs on a rather uncertain and precarious tenure.<>
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That's the place where we are to lunch; and, by Jove, there's the boywith the basket, punctual as clockwork!So he is,' said Mr. Pickwick, brightening up.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'Roll this place to-morrow morning--do you hear, Hunt?Yes, Sir.<>
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And take care that you keep this place in good order--do you hear,Hunt?Yes, Sir.<>
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It washalf-past four when I got to Somers Town, and then I was so uncommonlushy, that I couldn't find the place where the latch-key went in, andwas obliged to knock up the old 'ooman.<>
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That's just exactly the wery place vere you ought to have gone lastnight, Sir,' replied Mr. Weller.<>
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I worked down the weryday arter the night as you caught the rheumatic, and at the Black Boy atChelmsford--the wery place they'd come to--I took 'em up, right throughto Ipswich, where the man-servant--him in the mulberries--told me theywas a-goin' to put up for a long time.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'I have been to-night, gentlemen,' said Mr. Pickwick, hoping to start asubject which all the company could take a part in discussing, 'I havebeen to-night, in a place which you all know very well, doubtless, butwhich I have not been in for some years, and know very little of; Imean Gray's Inn, gentlemen.<>
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Am I not right aboutthem?' And the old man rubbed his hands, and leered as if in delightat having found another point of view in which to place his favouritesubject.<>
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Although in later times it has been avery different place from the sink of filth and dirt it once was,even its improved condition holds out but little temptation to theextravagant, or consolation to the improvident.<>
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]'It may be my fancy, or it may be that I cannot separate the place fromthe old recollections associated with it, but this part of London Icannot bear.<>
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Scenes changed before his eyes, place succeeded place, andevent followed event, in all the hurry of delirium; but they were allconnected in some way with the great object of his mind.<>
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Agents weresent in quest of him, in all directions; every stratagem that could beinvented was resorted to, for the purpose of discovering his place ofretreat; but it was all in vain.<>
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By the time they alighted there, it wasquite dark; and, proceeding by the dead wall in front of the VeterinaryHospital, they entered a small by-street, which is, or was at that time,called Little College Street, and which, whatever it may be now, wasin those days a desolate place enough, surrounded by little else thanfields and ditches.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'What I mean, sir,' said Sam, 'is, that the poorer a place is, thegreater call there seems to be for oysters.<>
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The very first place we stop at, I'll makea note of them.<>
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I think an inn is agood sort of a place to propose to a single woman in, Mr. Pickwick.<>
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Hisfirst act was to bolt the door on the inside; his second, to polishhis head and countenance very carefully with a cotton handkerchief;his third, to place his hat, with the cotton handkerchief in it, on thenearest chair; and his fourth, to produce from the breast-pocket ofhis coat a short truncheon, surmounted by a brazen crown, with which hebeckoned to Mr. Pickwick with a grave and ghost-like air.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'Why, no considerable change has taken place in the state of my system,since I see you cocked up behind your governor's chair in the parlour, alittle vile ago,' replied Sam.<>
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They had to look all over the place for the hat.<>
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Fourthly, that you may let the place as soon as you like--and that'sall.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) First, there was Wardle himself, looking, if that were possible, morejolly than ever; then there were Bella and her faithful Trundle; and,lastly, there were Emily and some eight or ten young ladies, who had allcome down to the wedding, which was to take place next day, and who werein as happy and important a state as young ladies usually are, on suchmomentous occasions; and they were, one and all, startling the fieldsand lanes, far and wide, with their frolic and laughter.<>
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If any of theold English yeomen had turned into fairies when they died, it was justthe place in which they would have held their revels.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'What an extraordinary thing it is, Winkle,' said Mr. Pickwick, ratherpettishly, 'that you couldn't have taken your place before.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'But he was an altered man, and he could not bear the thought ofreturning to a place where his repentance would be scoffed at, and hisreformation disbelieved.<>
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We do not mean to say that it was exactly thecase in this particular instance; all we wish to inform the readeris, that the different members of the party dispersed to their severalhomes; that Mr. Pickwick and his friends once more took their seats onthe top of the Muggleton coach; and that Arabella Allen repaired toher place of destination, wherever it might have been--we dare say Mr.Winkle knew, but we confess we don't--under the care and guardianship ofher brother Benjamin, and his most intimate and particular friend, Mr.Bob Sawyer.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) We feel that in this place we lay ourself open to the inquiry whetherMr. Winkle was whispering, during this brief conversation, to ArabellaAllen; and if so, what he said; and furthermore, whether Mr. Snodgrasswas conversing apart with Emily Wardle; and if so, what HE said.<>
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Why, sir, bless your innocent eyebrows, that's where themysterious disappearance of a 'spectable tradesman took place four yearsago.<>
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With that hint that he hadbeen interrupted quite long enough, Mr. Serjeant Snubbin, who had beengradually growing more and more abstracted, applied his glass to hiseyes for an instant, bowed slightly round, and was once more deeplyimmersed in the case before him, which arose out of an interminablelawsuit, originating in the act of an individual, deceased a centuryor so ago, who had stopped up a pathway leading from some place whichnobody ever came from, to some other place which nobody ever went to.<>
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If a man wished to abstracthimself from the world--to remove himself from within the reach oftemptation--to place himself beyond the possibility of any inducement tolook out of the window--we should recommend him by all means go to LantStreet.<>
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--Extraordinary place that City.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) Mr. Weller having obtained leave of absence from Mr. Pickwick, who, inhis then state of excitement and worry, was by no means displeased atbeing left alone, set forth, long before the appointed hour, and havingplenty of time at his disposal, sauntered down as far as the MansionHouse, where he paused and contemplated, with a face of great calmnessand philosophy, the numerous cads and drivers of short stages whoassemble near that famous place of resort, to the great terror andconfusion of the old-lady population of these realms.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) To ladies and gentlemen who are not in the habit of devoting themselvespractically to the science of penmanship, writing a letter is no veryeasy task; it being always considered necessary in such cases for thewriter to recline his head on his left arm, so as to place his eyesas nearly as possible on a level with the paper, and, while glancingsideways at the letters he is constructing, to form with histongue imaginary characters to correspond.<>
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Used, at every place she went to, to have eighteen-pence aday, a pint of porter, and a glass of spirits; but since she became amember of the Brick Lane Branch, has always demanded three-and-sixpence(the announcement of this most interesting fact was received withdeafening enthusiasm).<>
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Those facts and circumstances, gentlemen, youshall hear detailed by me, and proved by the unimpeachable female whom Iwill place in that box before you.<>
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Mr. Winkle obeyed the mandate, and looked at the place where he thoughtit most probable the jury might be; for seeing anything in his thenstate of intellectual complication was wholly out of the question.<>
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They must tell theirstories without any previous consultation with you, if none has yettaken place (another look at the jury).<>
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Bending his steps towardsthe Royal Hotel, he found a coach on the point of starting for Bristol,and, thinking Bristol as good a place for his purpose as any other hecould go to, he mounted the box, and reached his place of destinationin such time as the pair of horses, who went the whole stage and backagain, twice a day or more, could be reasonably supposed to arrivethere.<>
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Thinking this an eligible place wherein to makehis inquiries, Mr. Winkle stepped into the little shop where thegilt-labelled drawers and bottles were; and finding nobody there,knocked with a half-crown on the counter, to attract the attention ofanybody who might happen to be in the back parlour, which he judged tobe the innermost and peculiar sanctum of the establishment, from therepetition of the word surgery on the door--painted in white lettersthis time, by way of taking off the monotony.<>
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What a very nice place you have here!Pretty well, pretty well,' replied Bob Sawyer.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'No, no,' said Mr. Ben Allen, laying aside the poker, and looking verycunning; 'I didn't think Wardle's exactly the place for a headstronggirl; so, as I am her natural protector and guardian, our parents beingdead, I have brought her down into this part of the country to spend afew months at an old aunt's, in a nice, dull, close place.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) He waited so long without this anxiously-expected event occurring, thathe began to think it was not going to take place at all, when he heardlight footsteps upon the gravel, and immediately afterwards beheldArabella walking pensively down the garden.<>
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They alighted, as had been agreed on, about a quarter ofa mile from the place of rendezvous, and desiring the coachman to awaittheir return, proceeded the remaining distance on foot.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'Now, it's in the stable, and they'll think the place is afire,' saidSam.<>
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I would rather go to some other place of confinement if I can,' saidMr. Pickwick.<>
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Stop, stop, my dear Sir; not the least occasion for being in such aviolent hurry to get into a place that most other men are as eager toget out of,' said the good-natured little attorney.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'Live down there! Yes, and die down there, too, very often!' replied Mr.Roker; 'and what of that? Who's got to say anything agin it? Live downthere! Yes, and a wery good place it is to live in, ain't it?'As Roker turned somewhat fiercely upon Mr. Pickwick in saying this, andmoreover muttered in an excited fashion certain unpleasant invocationsconcerning his own eyes, limbs, and circulating fluids, the lattergentleman deemed it advisable to pursue the discourse no further.<>
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Mr.Roker then proceeded to mount another staircase, as dirty as that whichled to the place which has just been the subject of discussion, in whichascent he was closely followed by Mr. Pickwick and Sam.<>
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The place was intolerably dirty, and the smellof tobacco smoke perfectly suffocating.<>
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A young woman, with a child in her arms, who seemed scarcelyable to crawl, from emaciation and misery, was walking up and down thepassage in conversation with her husband, who had no other place tosee her in.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) Turning these things in his mind, as he mounted the narrow staircaseat the foot of which Roker had left him, Mr. Pickwick gradually workedhimself to the boiling-over point; and so excited was he with hisreflections on this subject, that he had burst into the room to whichhe had been directed, before he had any distinct recollection, either ofthe place in which he was, or of the object of his visit.<>
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Mr. Jingle thrusthis hands into the place where his trousers pockets used to be, and,dropping his chin upon his breast, sank back into his chair.<>
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I have felt from the first, Sam,' said Mr. Pickwick, with muchsolemnity, 'that this is not the place to bring a young man to.<>
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Independently of mywish that you should not be idling about a place like this, for yearsto come, I feel that for a debtor in the Fleet to be attended by hismanservant is a monstrous absurdity.<>
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These gentlemen are theCommissioners of the Insolvent Court, and the place in which they sit,is the Insolvent Court itself.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) It is, and has been, time out of mind, the remarkable fate of this courtto be, somehow or other, held and understood, by the general consentof all the destitute shabby-genteel people in London, as their commonresort, and place of daily refuge.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) It must not be supposed that any of these people have the least shadowof business in, or the remotest connection with, the place they soindefatigably attend.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) A casual visitor might suppose this place to be a temple dedicated tothe Genius of Seediness.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) Now, the place where this discourse occurred was the public-house justopposite to the Insolvent Court; and the person with whom it was heldwas no other than the elder Mr. Weller, who had come there, to comfortand console a friend, whose petition to be discharged under the act,was to be that day heard, and whose attorney he was at that momentconsulting.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) Mr. Weller, being stout, cast himself at once into the crowd, with thedesperate hope of ultimately turning up in some place which would suithim.<>
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Vell,Sir, here he'd stop, occupyin' the best place for three hours, and nevertakin' nothin' arter his dinner, but sleep, and then he'd go away to acoffee-house a few streets off, and have a small pot o' coffee and fourcrumpets, arter wich he'd walk home to Kensington and go to bed.<>
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The above short dialogue took place as Mr. Weller lay extended on hismattress at one end of the room, and the cobbler on his, at the other;the apartment being illumined by the light of a rush-candle, and thecobbler's pipe, which was glowing below the table, like a red-hot coal.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'Well, then,' said Sam, with some sternness, 'wot do you perseverein bein' obstinit for, vastin' your precious life away, in this heremagnified pound? Wy don't you give in, and tell the Chancellorship thatyou're wery sorry for makin' his court contemptible, and you won't do sono more?'The cobbler put his pipe in the corner of his mouth, while he smiled,and then brought it back to its old place again; but said nothing.<>
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The place pollutes it.<>
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It might look personal here, if a man walked about with vitevashon his clothes, eh, Sammy?'As Mr. Weller exhibited in this place unequivocal symptoms of anapproaching fit of chuckling, Sam interposed to stop it.<>
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The whole place seemed restless and troubled; and thepeople were crowding and flitting to and fro, like the shadows in anuneasy dream.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) The above examination of a child of tender years took place while Mr.and Mrs.<>
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Why doesn'the make haste!'As the lady spoke these words, Mr. Jackson turned from the coach wherehe had been addressing some observations to a shabby man in blackleggings, who had just emerged from the vehicle with a thick ash stickin his hand, and made his way to the place where the ladies were seated;winding his hair round the brim of his hat, as he came along.<>
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Sucha number of men standing about! And they stared so!'What place is this?' inquired Mrs.<>
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Mary had to give a month's warning, too, before shecould leave her place next door, and we couldn't possibly have done itwithout her assistance.<>
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Left my home, Mr. Sawyer, three days ago, on a pretended visit to mysister, another aunt of hers, who keeps the large boarding-school, justbeyond the third mile-stone, where there is a very large laburnum-treeand an oak gate,' said the old lady, stopping in this place to dry hereyes.<>
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That from what has been stated to me, sir, I assertthat you were by no means justified in attempting to force your sister'sinclinations as you did, and that you should rather have endeavoured byyour kindness and forbearance to have supplied the place of other nearerrelations whom she had never known, from a child.<>
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Truth to tell, Mr. Pickwick felt thathis presence on the occasion, however considerate and gratifying, wasby no means an honour he would willingly have sought; in fact, he wouldcheerfully have given a reasonable sum of money to have had Mr. BobSawyer removed to any place at not less than fifty miles' distance,without delay.<>
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The blinds were pulled down, and the shutterspartly closed; of the knot of loungers that usually collected about thedoor, not one was to be seen; the place was silent and desolate.<>
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The funeral had evidently taken place that day, for attached to his hat,which he still retained on his head, was a hatband measuring about ayard and a half in length, which hung over the top rail of the chairand streamed negligently down.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) Mr. Pell was waiting at the usual place of meeting at the appointedtime; even he wore a pair of gloves and a clean shirt, much frayed atthe collar and wristbands by frequent washings.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'Wot place is this here?' whispered the mottled-faced gentleman to theelder Mr. Weller.<>
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AN IMPORTANT CONFERENCE TAKES PLACE BETWEEN Mr. PICKWICKAND SAMUEL WELLER, AT WHICH HIS PARENT ASSISTS--AN OLD GENTLEMAN IN ASNUFF-COLOURED SUIT ARRIVES UNEXPECTEDLYMr. Pickwick was sitting alone, musing over many things, and thinkingamong other considerations how he could best provide for the youngcouple whose present unsettled condition was matter of constant regretand anxiety to him, when Mary stepped lightly into the room, and,advancing to the table, said, rather hastily--'Oh, if you please, Sir, Samuel is downstairs, and he says may hisfather see you?Surely,' replied Mr. Pickwick.<>
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The decanters passed from hand to hand with unwonted briskness, andMr. Pickwick, looking round on the faces of his friends with a cheerfulsmile, proceeded--'All the changes that have taken place among us,'said Mr. Pickwick, 'I mean the marriage that HAS taken place, and themarriage that WILL take place, with the changes they involve, renderedit necessary for me to think, soberly and at once, upon my future plans.<>
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His account of both wasquite satisfactory to Wardle--as almost any other account would havebeen, for the good old gentleman was overflowing with Hilarity andkindness--and a handsome portion having been bestowed upon Emily, themarriage was fixed to take place on the fourth day from that time--thesuddenness of which preparations reduced three dressmakers and a tailorto the extreme verge of insanity.<>
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"(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) They moved hastily along and found a place where the wall seemed tostoop abruptly, almost as if it had half-sunk into the earth; and agarden tree, flamboyant with the gayest garden blossom, straggled out ofthe dark enclosure and was gilded by the gleam of a solitary street-lamp.<>
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"(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) "My dear," said the lady, "how absurd you are--Sir Leopold!" Then, aftera pause, she added: "If anybody suggested his secretary now-- that manwith the whiskers; I've always said, ever since he got the place Philipought to have had----"(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) "Nothing doing," said Philip languidly, making his sole contribution tothe conversation.<>
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Came over in it from my sister's place at Holmgate, andnever been over that road in a car since.<>
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I was up at the Pulmans' place just now, when I was rung up andasked to come round here to meet a man who is coming to communicatesomething that may be of some moment to you.<>
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In thatsort of place everybody not only knows everybody else, but generallyknows where anybody is at any given moment.<>
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Hewanted a quiet place and he came here and cut his throat.<>
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"(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) "You must expect everything to go slowly in a place like this," saidFather Brown.<>
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But LordMounteagle rolled it loosely in his palm without looking at it; andstaring at the ceiling, told them a long tale about the legendarycharacter of Mount Meru, and how, in the Gnostic mythology, it had beenthe place of the wrestling of nameless primeval powers.<>
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(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) After being referred from one place to another, he finally ran hisfriend Father Brown to earth in the house of another friend, a RomanCatholic friend, with a large family.<>
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