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The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice.
Hard and sharp as flint.
A tight-fisted hand at the grindstone.
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A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!
I wear the chain I forged in life.

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No temperature made the melancholy mad elephants more mad or more sane. Their wearisome heads went up and down at the same rate, in hot weather and cold, wet weather and dry, fair weather and foul. 31 Aug 2021
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1854 St. George's Hall in Liverpool, a large a Neoclassical building containing concert halls and law courts, opens. Charles Dickens would go on to make several public appearances at the Hall.

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When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of life.
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