I walked to and fro, tried to read an old gazetteer, listened to the awful noises : looked at faces, scenes, and figures in the fire. At length, the steady ticking of the undisturbed clock on the wall tormented me to that degree that I resolved to go... David Copperfield - Page 1594by Jan Fields, Charles Dickens - 2010 - 112 pagesFull view - About this book
| Charles Dickens - 1849 - 1160 pages
...all such sensations vanished, as if by magic, and $ ims broad awake, with every sense refined. £ FOP hours I lay there, listening to the wind and water;...such a pitch, that I hurried on my clothes, and went down stairs. In the large kitchen, where I dimly saw bacon and ropes of onions hanging from the beams,... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1868 - 92 pages
...sea ; now, that I distinctly heard the firing of signal-guns ; now, the fall of houses in the town. At length my restlessness attained to such a pitch that I hurried on my clothes and went down stairs. In the large kitchen all the inn servants and some other watchers were clustered together.... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1868 - 410 pages
...sea ; now, that I distinctly heard the firing of signal-guns ; now, the fall of houses in the town. At length my restlessness attained to such a pitch that I hurried on my clothes and went down stairs. In the large kitchen all the inn servants and some other watchers were clustered together.... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1872 - 384 pages
...of signalguns ; and now the fall of houses in the town. I got up several times and looked out ; hut could see nothing, except the reflection in the windowpanes...such a pitch, that I hurried on my clothes and went down stairs. In the large kitchen, where I dimly saw bacon and ropes of onions hanging from the beams,... | |
| C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1873 - 348 pages
...an old gazetteer, listened to the awful noises ; looked at faces, scenes, and figures in the flre. At length the steady ticking of the undisturbed clock...such a pitch that I hurried on my clothes and went down stairs. I remained there, I dare say, two hours. Once I opened the yard-gate, and looked into... | |
| Readers - 1878 - 446 pages
...resolved to go to bed. It was re-assuring, on such a night, to be told that some of the inn servants had agreed together to sit up until morning. I went...from the great chimney, and brought near the door. I remained there, I dare say, two hours. Once, I opened the yard-gate, and looked into the empty street.... | |
| Granville series - 1881 - 376 pages
...faint candle I had left burning, and of my own haggard face looking in at me from the black void.8 17. At length my restlessness attained to such a pitch...from the beams, the watchers were clustered together about a table. 18. I remained there, I daresay, two hours. Once, I opened the yard-gate, and looked... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1884 - 890 pages
...or out of them, would put off in such a gale of wind, least of all Ham Peggotty, who had been bora to seafaring. So sensible of this, beforehand, that...such a pitch, that I hurried on my clothes, and went down stairs. In the large kitchen, where I dimly saw bacon and ropes of onions hanging from the beams,... | |
| Loomis Joseph Campbell - Elocution - 1884 - 442 pages
...faint candle I had left burning, and of my own haggard face looking in at me from the black void. 12. At length my restlessness attained to such a pitch, that I hurried on my clothes, and went down stairs. In a large kitchen, where I dimly saw bacon and ropes of onions hanging from the beams,... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1885 - 842 pages
...awake, with every sense refined. For hours I lay there, listening to the wind and water ; imag ining, now, that I heard shrieks out at sea ; now that I...beams, the watchers were clustered together, in various ittltudes, about a table, purposely moved awav from the great chimney, and brought near the door. A... | |
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