Citations:offices

English citations of offices

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• 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.

  When I returned, as often as it was necessary, I cleared their path from the snow and performed those offices that I had seen done by Felix.

• 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.

  The city clocks had only just gone three, but it was quite dark already — it had not been light all day — and candles were flaring in the windows of the neighbouring offices, like ruddy smears upon the palpable brown air.

  It was a large house, but one of broken fortunes; for the spacious offices were little used, their walls were damp and mossy, their windows broken, and their gates decayed.