The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Band 1

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J.M. Dent & Company, 1899
 

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Seite 3 - United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual Delivery Company...
Seite 59 - 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 62 - Win, win, der, der, winder, a casement. When the boy knows this out of book, he goes and does it. It's just the same principle as the use of the globes. Where's the second boy?" "Please, sir, he's weeding the garden, "replied a small voice.
Seite i - I cannot call to mind, now, how I came to hear about Yorkshire schools when I was a not very robust child, sitting in bye-places, near Rochester Castle, with a head full of PARTRIDGE, STRAP, TOM PIPES, andSANcno PANZA: but I know that my first impressions of them were picked up at that time...
Seite 59 - And yet this scene, painful as it was, had its grotesque features, which, in a less interested observer than Nicholas, might have provoked a smile. Mrs. Squeers stood at one of the desks, presiding over an immense basin of brimstone and treacle...
Seite 125 - Squeers, striking his head against it in his descent, lay at his full length on the ground, stunned and motionless. Having brought affairs to this happy termination, and ascertained to his thorough satisfaction that Squeers was only stunned, and not dead (upon which point he had had...
Seite 60 - Into these bowls, Mrs. Squeers, assisted by the hungry servant, poured a brown composition, which looked like diluted pincushions without the covers, and was called porridge. A minute wedge of brown bread was inserted in each bowl, and when they had eaten their porridge by means of the bread, the boys ate the bread itself, and had finished their breakfast ; whereupon Mr. Squeers said, in a solemn voice, "For what we have received, may the Lord make us truly thankful !
Seite 66 - Never mind that, father," said Miss Squeers, as the head of the family was about to reply. "Who is the man?" " Why, your father has got some nonsense in his head that he's the son of a poor gentleman that died the other day,
Seite 59 - ... domestic prospect thus opened to him ; but Squeers was, fortunately, too much occupied with his own reflections to perceive it. " It's my way to say, when I am up in London," continued Squeers, " that to them boys she is a mother.
Seite 62 - SAs you're perfect in that," resumed Squeers, turning to the boy, " go and look after my horse, and rub him down well, or I'll rub you down. The rest of the class go and draw water up till somebody tells you to leave off, for it's washing-day to-morrow, and they want the coppers filled.

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