 It was a crazy, tumbledown old house, abutting of course on the river, and literally overrun with rats. Its wainscotted rooms and its rotten floors and staircase, and the old grey rats swarming down in the cellars, and the sound of their squeaking and...  Curiosities of Impecuniosity - Página 190por H. G. Somerville - 1896 - 226 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Forster - 1842 - 450 páginas
...tumble-down old house, abutting of course 'on the river, and literally overrun with rats. Its wain' scotted rooms, and its rotten floors and staircase, and the...rise up visibly before me, as if I were there again. The 'counting-house was on the first floor, looking over the 'coal-barges and the river. There was... | |
 | 1912 - 666 páginas
...crazy, tumbledown old house " abutting on the river, " and literally overrun with rats. Its wainscot ted rooms, and its rotten' floors and staircase, and the...rats swarming down in the cellars, and the sound of the squeaking and scuffling coming up the stairs at all times, and the dirt and decay of the place,... | |
 | 1872 - 838 páginas
...when he was grown up, wrote an account of the place and his own experience there : ' Its wainscoted rooms, and its rotten floors and staircase, and the...rise up visibly before me, as if I were there again. The counting-house was on the first floor, looking over the coal-barges and the river. There was a... | |
 | 1872 - 692 páginas
...tumble-down old house, abutting, of course, on tho river, and literally overrun with rats. Its wainscoted rooms and its rotten floors and staircase, and the...rise up visibly before me, as if I were there again. The counting-house was on the first floor, looking over the coalbnrges and the river. There was a recess... | |
 | John Forster - 1872 - 574 páginas
...crazy, tumble-down old "house, abutting of course on the river, and liter"ally overrun with rats. Its wainscotted rooms, "and its rotten floors and staircase,..."decay of the place, rise up visibly before me, as LONDON: " if I were there again. The counting-house was At Hunger-"^ "on the first floor, looking over... | |
 | 1872 - 830 páginas
...own experience there : " Its wainscoted rooms, and its rotten floors and staircase, and the old gray rats swarming down in the cellars, and the sound of...rise up visibly before me, as if I were there again. The counting-house was on the first floor, looking over the coal-barges and the river. There was a... | |
 | John Forster - 1872 - 442 páginas
...literally overrun with rats. Its wainscoted rooms, and its rotten floors and staircase, and the old gray rats swarming down in the cellars, and the sound of...rise up visibly before me, as if I were there again. The counting-house was on the first floor, looking over the coal-barges and the river. There was a... | |
 | John Forster - 1872 - 440 páginas
...literally overrun with rats. Its wainscoted rooms, and its rotten floors and staircase, and the old gray rats swarming down in the cellars, and the sound of...rise up visibly before me, as if I were there again. The counting-house was on the first floor, looking over the coal-barges and the river. There was a... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1872 - 858 páginas
...when he was grown up, wrote an account of the place and his own experience there : ' Its wainscoted rooms, and its rotten floors and staircase, and the...the cellars, and the sound of their squeaking and scuftHng coming up the stairs at all times, and the dirt and decay of the place, rise up visibly before... | |
 | John Forster - 1873 - 456 páginas
...literally overrun with rats. Its wainscoted rooms, and /its rotten floors and staircase, and the old gray rats swarming down in the cellars, and the sound of...at all times, and the dirt and decay of the place, * i rise up visibly before me, as if I were there again. The counting-house was on the first floor,... | |
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