 | Charles Dickens - 1852 - 666 pages
...fog, with fog all round them, as if they were up in a balloon, and hanging in the misty clouds. Gas looming through the fog in divers places in the streets, much as the sun may, from the spongey fields, be seen to loom by husbandman and ploughboy. Most of the shops lighted two hours before... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 pages
...fog, with fog all round them, as if they were up in a balloon, and hanging in the misty clouds. Gas looming through the fog in divers places in the streets,...sun may, from the spongy fields, be seen to loom by husbandmen and ploughboys. Most of the shops lighted two hours before their time — as the gas seems... | |
 | Charles Dickens, Ich (pseud) - 1856 - 208 pages
...fog, with fog all round them, as if they were up in a balloon, and hanging in the misty clouds. Gas looming through the fog in divers places in the streets, much as the sun may, from the spongey fields, be seen to loom by husbandman and ploughboy. Most of the shops lighted two hours before... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1868 - 574 pages
...fog, with fog all round them, as if they were up in a balloon, and hanging in the misty clouds. Gas looming through the fog in divers places in the streets, much as the sun may, from the spongey fields, be seen to loom by husbandman and ploughboy. Most of the shops lighted two hours before... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1873 - 384 pages
...them, as if they were up in a balloon, and hanging in the misty clouds. Gas looming through the fog iu divers places in the streets, much as the sun may,...two hours before their time — as the gas seems to kuow, for it has a haggard and unwilling look. The raw afternoon is rawest, and the dense fog is densest,... | |
 | English literature - 1872 - 694 pages
...ono might imagine, for the death of the sun ; " or thus about shop-windows on the same occasion : " Shops lighted two hours before their time — as the...to know, for it has a haggard and unwilling look; " or thus of a sleeping country town, where " nothing seemed to be going on hut the clocks, and they... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1873 - 574 pages
...Gas looming through the fog in divers places in the streets, much as the sun may, from the gpongey fields, be seen to loom by husbandman and- ploughboy. Most of the shops lighted two honra before their time — as the gas seems to know, for it has a haggard and unwilling look. The... | |
 | Robert Williams Buchanan - English poetry - 1883 - 368 pages
...one might imagine, for the death of the sun ; " or thus about shop-windows on the same occasion : " Shops lighted two hours before their time — as the...to know, for it has a haggard and unwilling look;" or thus of a sleeping country town, where "nothing seemed to be going on but the clocks, and they had... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1884 - 964 pages
...fog, with fog afl round them, as if they were up in a balloon, and hanging in the misty clouds. Gas looming through the fog in divers places in the streets,...the spongy fields, be seen to loom by husbandman and plougnboy. Most of the shops lighted two hours before their time — as the gas seems to know, for... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1908 - 918 pages
...fog, with fog all round them, as if they were up in a balloon, and hanging in the misty clouds. Gas looming through the fog in divers places in the streets, much as the sun may, from the spongey fields, be seen to loom by husbandman and ploughboy. Most of the shops lighted two hours before... | |
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... prentice boy on deck. Chance people on the bridges peeping over the parapets into a nether sky of fog, with fog all round them, as if they were up in a balloon, and hanging in the misty clouds. 
