Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People

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Lea & Blanchard, 1839 - England - 268 pages
 

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Page 60 - ... with an equal disregard of their own bodily health and subsequent comfort — boys, with great silk hats just balanced on the top of their heads, smoking cigars, and trying to look as if they liked them — gentlemen in pink shirts and blue waistcoats, occasionally upsetting either themselves, or somebody else, with their own canes.

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