A horrid hole of a house, in an alley they call a court ; stairs wretchedly narrow, even to the first-floor rooms : and into a den they led me, with broken walls, which had been papered, as I saw by a multitude of tacks, and some torn bits held on by... Clarissa; or, The history of a young lady - Pagina 295door Samuel Richardson - 1820Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| 1888 - 742 pagina’s
...feet to the ceiling ; because the curtain rings were broken off ; a coverlid plaguily in tatters ; the windows dark and double-barred, the tops boarded up to save mending ; an old, tottering, worm-eaten table ; on the mantel-piece an iron shove-up candlestick, and near... | |
| Samuel Richardson - 1902 - 384 pagina’s
...court ; stairs wretchedly narrow, even to the first-floor rooms : and into a den they led me, with broken walls, which had been papered, as I saw by...and some torn bits held on by the rusty heads. The floor indeed was clean, but the ceiling was smoked with variety of figures, and initials of names,... | |
| Samuel Richardson - 1902 - 364 pagina’s
...call a court; stairs wretchedly narrow, even to the first-floor room: and into a den they led me, with broken walls, which had been papered, as I saw by...and some torn bits held on by the rusty heads. "The floor indeed was clean, but the ceiling was smoked with variety of figures, and initials of names,... | |
| Annette Brown Hopkins - 1915 - 824 pagina’s
...the first floor rooms : and into a 1 Where Clarissa was imprisoned for debt. den they led me, with broken walls, which had been papered, as I saw by...and some torn bits held on by the rusty heads. The floor indeed was clean, but the ceiling was smoked with variety of figures, and initials of names,... | |
| Thomas O. Beebee - 2010 - 245 pagina’s
...a court; Stairs wretchedly narrow, even to the first-floor rooms: and into a den, they led me, with broken walls, which had been papered, as I saw by...tacks, and some torn bits held on by the rusty heads. . . . An old, tottering, worm-eaten table, that had more nails bestowed in mending it to make it stand,... | |
| Jocelyn Harris - 1987 - 196 pagina’s
...a court; stairs wretchedly narrow, even to the first-floor rooms: and into a den they led me, with broken walls which had been papered, as I saw by a...and some torn bits held on by the rusty heads. The floor indeed was clean, but the ceiling was smoked with variety of figures, and initials of names,... | |
| Margaret Anne Doody - 1996 - 640 pagina’s
...call a Court; stairs wretchedly narrow, even to the first-floor rooms; And imo a den they led me, with broken walls, which had been papered, as I saw by...mending; and only a little four-paned eyelet-hole of a casemem to let in air; more, however, coming in at broken panes, than could come in at That, ,,, On... | |
| John J. Richetti - 1999 - 304 pagina’s
...a court: stairs wretchedly narrow, even to the first-floor rooms: and into a den they led me, with broken walls which had been papered, as I saw by a...some torn bits held on by the rusty heads. ... The floor indeed was clean, but the ceiling was smoked with variety of figures, and initials of names,... | |
| David Blewett - 2001 - 374 pagina’s
...prison room in the "horrid hole of a house" with its coarse and broken furnishings, its smoky ceiling, the windows "dark and double-barred, the tops boarded up to save mending," the only light the faint and irritating twinkling of a minute candle in "an iron shove-up candlestick."... | |
| Regina Hewitt, Pat Rogers - 2002 - 308 pagina’s
...prison room in the "horrid hole of a house" with its coarse and broken furnishings, its smoky ceiling, the windows "dark and double-barred, the tops boarded up to save mending," the only light the faint and irritating twinkling of a minute candle in "an iron shove-up candlestick."... | |
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