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1  Think of it, Bounderby, in that point of view.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
2  Mr. Bounderby knew it was somewhere down town, but knew no more respecting it.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
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3  Being heated when he arrived at this climax, Josiah Bounderby of Coketown stopped.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV
4  Mr. Gradgrind, though hard enough, was by no means so rough a man as Mr. Bounderby.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
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5  Mr. Gradgrind and his friend Bounderby stood near the door, ready to take her away.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
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6  Vagabond, errand-boy, vagabond, labourer, porter, clerk, chief manager, small partner, Josiah Bounderby of Coketown.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
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7  Eyeing Mr. Bounderby from head to foot again, he turned from him, as from a man finally disposed of, to Mr. Gradgrind.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
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8  Bounderby and Gradgrind now walked, was a triumph of fact; it had no greater taint of fancy in it than Mrs. Gradgrind herself.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
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9  Mr. Bounderby being a bachelor, an elderly lady presided over his establishment, in consideration of a certain annual stipend.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
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10  It was one of the most exasperating attributes of Bounderby, that he not only sang his own praises but stimulated other men to sing them.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
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11  Mr. Bounderby being restrained by this mild suggestion, Mr. Gradgrind found an opening for his eminently practical exposition of the subject.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
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12  The simple circumstance of being left alone with her husband and Mr. Bounderby, was sufficient to stun this admirable lady again without collision between herself and any other fact.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
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13  I call a spade a spade; and I call the mother of Josiah Bounderby of Coketown, without any fear or any favour, what I should call her if she had been the mother of Dick Jones of Wapping.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
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14  As it had grown too dusky without, to see the sign, and as it had not grown light enough within to see the picture, Mr. Gradgrind and Mr. Bounderby received no offence from these idealities.
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15  A year or two younger than his eminently practical friend, Mr. Bounderby looked older; his seven or eight and forty might have had the seven or eight added to it again, without surprising anybody.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
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16  If Bounderby had been a Conqueror, and Mrs. Sparsit a captive Princess whom he took about as a feature in his state-processions, he could not have made a greater flourish with her than he habitually did.
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17  In the formal drawing-room of Stone Lodge, standing on the hearthrug, warming himself before the fire, Mr. Bounderby delivered some observations to Mrs. Gradgrind on the circumstance of its being his birthday.
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