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Page 187
... streets of the rumble of coaches over the cobbles , of the swagger- ing , dicing , and mohawking excesses of gilded youth along the narrow pavements , and at night of open doors showing bright interiors in the now gloomy and deserted ...
... streets of the rumble of coaches over the cobbles , of the swagger- ing , dicing , and mohawking excesses of gilded youth along the narrow pavements , and at night of open doors showing bright interiors in the now gloomy and deserted ...
Page 258
... streets you see dirty fowls picking chaff as it falls from the nose - bag of the carter's horse , costermongers ' barrows laden with bulging sacks stand against the kerb , boys kick about the road a sodden and punctured football or a ...
... streets you see dirty fowls picking chaff as it falls from the nose - bag of the carter's horse , costermongers ' barrows laden with bulging sacks stand against the kerb , boys kick about the road a sodden and punctured football or a ...
Page 263
... streets of little red - brick villas , the respectable streets of the well - off working - classes , fill one with depression . The monotony is almost worse than squalor . The contentment of the inhabitants is inexplicable . Thousands ...
... streets of little red - brick villas , the respectable streets of the well - off working - classes , fill one with depression . The monotony is almost worse than squalor . The contentment of the inhabitants is inexplicable . Thousands ...
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