You looked over a very low fence of white cravat (whereof no man had ever beheld the tie, for he fastened it behind), and there it lay, a valley between two jutting heights of collar, serene and whiskerless before you. It seemed to say, on the part of... The New Mirror - Page 184edited by - 1843Full view - About this book
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...upright, or slightly drooped in kindred action with his heavy eyelids.—His very throat was moral. You saw a good deal of it. You looked over a very low fence of white cravat—-and there it lay, a valley between two jutting heights of collar, serene and whiskerless... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1903 - 976 pages
...were his enemies ; the shadows cast by his brightness ; that was all. His very throat was moral. You saw a good deal of it. You looked over a very low fence of white cravat (whereof no man had ever beheld the tie, for he fastened it behind), and there it lay, a valley between two jutting heights... | |
| 572 pages
...were his enemies ; the shadows cast by his brightness; that was all. His very throat was moral. You saw a good deal of it. You looked over a very low fence of white cravat (whereof no man had ever beheld the tie, for he fastened it behind), and there it lay, a valley between two jutting heights... | |
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