I have often been asked how it was, and through what series of steps, that I became an __________.
On a day, therefore, it was in the closing autumn (or rather in the opening winter) of 1800 that my first introduction took place to the __________ Grammar School.
But far better, as acting always upon me with a magical celerity and a magical certainty, would have been the authoritative prescription ... of _________.
I was astonished to discover myself translated by a touch of the pen not only into a __________, but even into a self-multiplied __________.
Indignant I was that this __________ should have the power of making myself an accomplice in causing anxiety, perhaps even calamity to the poor emigrant ...
On the right hand bank of the river runs an artificial mound, called the __________.
'It was', she said, 'The __________; and it was an affection to which only some few rivers here and there were liable; and the Dee was one of these'.
This sentiment of nervous recoil from any word or deed that could not be recalled had been suddenly re-awakened on that London morning by the impressive experience of the _________
Was I not liable to the suspicion of __________?
But now rose ________ - sole, dark, infinite - brooding over the whole capacities of my heart.
__________, as is pretty well known, breeds a population somewhat litigious.
__________ had not then made it a crime, next door to a felony, for a man to sleep out of doors ...
For many weeks I had walked, at nights, with this poor friendless girl up and down __________.
Improving upon the plan of __________, every night he slept in a different quarter of London ...
I stretched out my arms, seeking for my one sole auxiliary; that was my eldest sister __________ ...
___________, if you travel from Hammerfest southwards ... is the one dearest place for lodgings known to man.
The reader may choose to think of him as, possibly, no more than a sublunary __________; it may be so, but my faith is better.
... first, one word with respect to its bodily effects; for upon all that has been hitherto written on the subject of opium ... I have but one emphatic criticism to pronounce - ___
As to the tincture of opium (commonly called __________), that might certainly intoxicate, if a man could bear to take enough of it ...
... yet no! let me not class thee, O noble-minded __________, with that order of women ...
The late Duke of _________ used to say, 'Next Monday, wind and weather permitting, I purpose to be drunk' ...
One day a __________ knocked at my door. What business a __________ could have to transact amongst the recesses of English mountains is not my business to conjecture ...
By accident, I met a college acquaintance, who recommended __________.
__________, the only person known to the public as having dallied systematically and for many years with opium ...
... if the reader had, in any South American forest, seen growing rankly some great __________ (such as the Jesuits' bark) ...
At the commencement of my opium career, I had myself been pronounced repeatedly a martyr elect to pulmonary __________.
The arrangements were countermanded, the __________ dismissed, and my 'Prolegomena' rested peacefully by the side of its elder and more dignified brother.
But from this I now pass to what is the main subject of these latter Confessions - to the history and journal of what took place in my __________.
... like the gates of Paradise to our first parents when looking back from afar, it is still (in the tremendous lines of __________) 'WIth dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms'.
... I had been led vividly to feel the memorable __________ or magical power of evocation which Christianity has put forth here and in parallel cases.
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