The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby: Containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings, and Complete Career of the Nickleby Family, Band 1

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F. Fleischer, 1839
 

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24
III
39
IV
57
VI
72
VII
104
VIII
115
IX
133
XVIII
295
XX
314
XXI
337
XXII
353
XXIII
372
XXIV
394
XXV
412
XXVI
435

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XI
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XII
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XIII
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XIV
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XV
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XVI
253
XVII
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XXVII
454
XXVIII
469
XXIX
490
XXX
514
XXXI
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XXXII
549
XXXIII
559
XXXIV
574

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Seite 55 - Nickleby would have commenced his expedition under most happy auspices. There was so much to be done, and so little time to do it...
Seite 122 - To be sure," said Squeers, by no means disconcerted. "So he is. Bot, bot, tin, tin, bottin, ney, ney, bottinney, noun substantive, a knowledge of plants. When he has learned that bottinney means a knowledge of plants he goes and knows 'em. That's our system, Nickleby; what do you think of it?" "It's a very useful one, at any rate,
Seite 118 - Pale and haggard faces, lank and bony figures, children with the countenances of old men, deformities with irons upon their limbs, boys of stunted growth, and others whose long meagre legs would hardly bear their stooping bodies, all crowded on the view together; there were the bleared eye, the hare-lip, the crooked foot, and every ugliness or distortion that told of unnatural aversion conceived by parents for their offspring...
Seite 208 - He had scarcely spoken when Squeers, in a violent outbreak of wrath and with a cry like the howl of a wild beast, spat upon him , and struck him a blow across the face with his instrument of torture, which raised up a bar of livid flesh as it was inflicted. Smarting with the agony of the blow, and concentrating into that one moment all his feelings of rage, scorn*, and indignation, Nicholas sprang upon him, wrested the weapon from his hand, and, pinning him by the throat, beat the ruffian till he...
Seite 20 - United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual Delivery Company; he would CASE OF A MUFFIN BOY.

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