The murmuring of many voices, the upturning of many faces, the pressing on of many footsteps in the outskirts of the crowd, so that it swells forward in a mass, like one great heave of water, all flashes away. St. Nicholas - Page 568edited by - 1920Full view - About this book
| Charles Dickens - 1866 - 398 pages
...forward in a mass, like one great heave of water, all flashes away. Twenty-Three. They said of him, about the city that night, that it was the peacefulest man's face ever beheld there. Many added that he looked sublime and prophetic. One of the most remarkable sufferers by the same axe... | |
| Gilbert Ashville Pierce, William Adolphus Wheeler - Literary Criticism - 1872 - 652 pages
...it swells forward in a mass, like one great heave of water, all flashes away. . . . They said of him about the' city, that night, that it was the peacefulest man's face ever beheld there. Many added that he looked sublime and prophetic. SYDNEY CARTON AND THE SEMPSTRESS. " Its portrayal... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1880 - 460 pages
...forward in a masa, like one great heave of water, all flashes away. Twenty-Three. They said of him, about the city that night, that it was the peacefulest man's face ever beheld there. Many added that he looked sublime and prophetic. One of the most remarkable sufferers by the same axe... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1884 - 930 pages
...forward in a mass, like one great heave of water, all flashes away. Twenty-Three. They said of him, about the city that night, that it was the peacefulest man's face ever beheld there. Many added that he looked sublime and prophetic. One of the most remarkable sufferers by the same axe... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1885 - 844 pages
...forward in a mass, like one great heave of water, all flashes away. Twenty-Three. They said of him, about the city that night, that it was the peacefulest man's face ever beheld there. Many added that he looked sublime and prophetic. One of the most remarkable sufferers by the same axe... | |
| 1892 - 140 pages
...forward in a mass, like one great heave of water, all flashes away. Twenty-three. They said of him, about the city that night, that it was the peacefulest man's face ever beheld there. Many added that he looked sublime and prophetic. We might be tempted to believe that the emotion was... | |
| Readers - 1892 - 256 pages
...patient face. She goes next before him — is gone; the knitting- women count twentytwo. They said of him about the city that night that it was the peacefulest man's face ever beheld there. Many added that he looked sublime and prophetic. " I am the Resurrection and the Life, saith the Lord... | |
| John Franklin Genung - English language - 1893 - 524 pages
...forward in a mass, like one great heave of water, all flashes away. Twenty-Three . . . " They said of him about the city that night, that it was the peacefulest man's face ever beheld there. Many added that he looked sublime and prophetic." IV. What Narration owes to Description. — The intimate... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1894 - 476 pages
...forward in a mass, like one great heave of water, all flashes away. Twenty-Three. They said of him about the city that night, that it was the peacefulest man's face ever beheld there. Many added that he looked sublime and prophetic. One of the most remarkable sufferers by the same axe... | |
| Francis M. Stalker, Charles Madison Curry, Walter W. Storms - Education - 1900 - 718 pages
...that it swells forward in a mass, like one of water, all flashes away. Twenty-three. They said of him, about the city that night, that it was the peacefulest man's face ever beheld there. Many added that he looked sublime and prophetic." What exquisite tenderness and beauty are given to... | |
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