| Charles Dickens - 1873 - 384 pages
...on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Fog creeping into the cabooses of collierbrigs ; fog lying out on the yards, and hovering in the rigging...; fog drooping on the gunwales of barges and small boate. Fog in the eyes and throats of ancient Greenwich pensioners, wheezing by the firesides of their... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1873 - 574 pages
...marshes, fog on the Kentish height*. Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs; fog lying out on tLe yards, and hovering in the rigging of great ships ; fog drooping on th» gunwales of barges and small boats. Fog in the eyes and throats of ancient Greenwich pensioners,... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1875 - 692 pages
...on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs ; fog lying out on the yards, and hovering in the rigging...; fog drooping on the gunwales of barges and small boata. Fog in the eyes and throats of ancient Greenwich pensioners, wheezing by the firesides of their... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1880 - 922 pages
...on the Essex marshes, fo<j on the Kentish heights. Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs ; fog lying out on the yards, and hovering in the rigging...throats of ancient Greenwich pensioners, wheezing by the fireside of their wards ; fog in the stem and bowl of the afternoon pipe of the wrathful skipper, down... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1884 - 898 pages
...on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs ; fog lying out on the yards, and hovering in the rigging...throats of ancient Greenwich pensioners, wheezing by the fireside of their wards ; fog in the stem and bowl of the afternoon pipe of the wrathful skipper, down... | |
| Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen - American literature - 1894 - 240 pages
...cadence of the two passages is so strikingly similar that I cannot forbear to quote. Here is Dickens: " Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among...drooping on the gunwales of barges and small boats," etc., etc. Gabriel Conroy opens as follows : " Snow everywhere as far as the eye could reach — fifty... | |
| Edwin Lillie Miller - English language - 1920 - 134 pages
...on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs; fog lying out on the yards and hovering in the rigging of great ships; fog dropping on the gunwales of barges and small boats. Fog in the eyes and throats of ancient Greenwich... | |
| Samuel McChord Crothers - 1925 - 298 pages
...defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great and dirty city. Fog in the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Fog...yards and hovering in the rigging of great ships; fog in the eyes and throats of ancient Greenwich pensioners wheezing by the firesides in their wards; fog... | |
| Lucius Adelno Sherman - Description (Rhetoric) - 1925 - 372 pages
...river, where it flows among green aits and meadows : fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among tiers of shipping, and the waterside pollutions of...throats of ancient Greenwich pensioners, wheezing by the fireside of their wards ; fog in the stem and bowl of the afternoon pipe of the wrathful skipper, down... | |
| Elizabeth Avery, Jane Olive Dorsey, Vera Abigail Sickels - Elocution - 1928 - 568 pages
...river, where it flows among green aits and meadows: fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among tiers of shipping, and the waterside pollutions of...throats of ancient Greenwich pensioners, wheezing by the fireside of their wards; fog in the stem and bowl of the afternoon pipe of the wrathful skipper, down... | |
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