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Nicholas Nickleby
- CHAPTER 26 Is fraught with some Danger to Miss Nickleby's Peace of Mind The place was a handsome suite of private apartments in Regent Street; the time was three o'clock in the afternoon to the dull and plodding, and the first hour of morning to the gay and spirited; the persons were Lord Frederick Verisopht, and his friend Sir Mulberry Hawk.†
Chpt 26
- CHAPTER 39 In which another old Friend encounters Smike, very opportunely and to some Purpose The night, fraught with so much bitterness to one poor soul, had given place to a bright and cloudless summer morning, when a north-country mail-coach traversed, with cheerful noise, the yet silent streets of Islington, and, giving brisk note of its approach with the lively winding of the guard's horn, clattered onward to its halting-place hard by the Post Office.†
Chpt 39 *
Definition:
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(fraught) full of negative things; or marked by or causing distress