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1  Brandy and water I alwayth take.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII
2  The golden waters were not there.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
3  When the time drew near for retiring, Mr. Bounderby took a glass of water.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
4  Gutters and pipes had burst, drains had overflowed, and streets were under water.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
5  The candle was brought up again, feebly burning, and then some water was cast in.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
6  They gave him drink, moistened his face with water, and administered some drops of cordial and wine.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
7  The air that would be healthful to the earth, the water that would enrich it, the heat that would ripen it, tear it when caged up.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
8  The figure descended the great stairs, steadily, steadily; always verging, like a weight in deep water, to the black gulf at the bottom.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
9  Sun-blinds, and sprinklings of water, a little cooled the main streets and the shops; but the mills, and the courts and alleys, baked at a fierce heat.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I
10  He lighted a candle, set out his little tea-board, got hot water from below, and brought in small portions of tea and sugar, a loaf, and some butter from the nearest shop.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI
11  Left alone with her mother, Louisa saw her lying with an awful lull upon her face, like one who was floating away upon some great water, all resistance over, content to be carried down the stream.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
12  As he stood there, trying to quench his fiery face with his drink of water, the comparison between the orator and the crowd of attentive faces turned towards him, was extremely to his disadvantage.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV
13  By dint of roaring at the top of his voice under a flaring gaslight, clenching his fists, knitting his brows, setting his teeth, and pounding with his arms, he had taken so much out of himself by this time, that he was brought to a stop, and called for a glass of water.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV
14  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 to pitch Mr. Thomas Gradgrind junior, as the injured men of Coketown threatened to pitch their property into the Atlantic.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
15  If he had had any sense of what he had done that night, and had been less of a whelp and more of a brother, he might have turned short on the road, might have gone down to the ill-smelling river that was dyed black, might have gone to bed in it for good and all, and have curtained his head for ever with its filthy waters.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II