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- The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.
- "What is your best, your very best, ale a glass?" "Two pence halfpenny," says the landlord, "is the price of the Genuine Stunning Ale." "Then,"…
- I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going. . . . My mother is likewise a very 'umble person. We live in…
- All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his…
- When men are about to commit, or sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity for the object…
- "Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a…
- I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night for…
- There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas.
- I took a good deal o' pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was very young, and shift for…
- At last, in the dead of the night, when the street was very still indeed, Little Dorrit laid the heavy head upon her bosom, and…
- Now I am in the garden at the back . . . a very preserve of butterflies as I remember it, with a high fence,…
- I believe the powers of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed, I think that…
- It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous heaps of copper…
- I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence.
- A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from, or whither it goes, few men…
- Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
- Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to…
- It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were…
- There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination…
- It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very…
- What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw…
- The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.
- Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair. It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young…
- Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect…
- Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.
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