The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, Nide 1Chapman and Hall, 1866 |
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an't answer Anthony asked Martin better bless Blue Dragon British Lion chair Chuffey Chuzzle coach colonel comfort cousin cried Martin curtsey daughters dear door Dragon expression eyes face father feel fellow fire Gamp glad glanced hand head hear heard heart Hominy honour hope Jefferson Brick Jinkins John Westlock Jonas kind knew landlady laughed looked Lupin manner Mark felt Mark Tapley Martin Chuzzlewit mean Mercy Merry mind Miss Charity Miss Pecksniffs morning Mould nature never night observed once perhaps Pinch portmanteau pretty pupil rejoined remarkable replied returned round Scadder shaking shook sister Slyme smile Spottletoe stood stopped stranger strong suppose sure talk tell there's thing thought Tigg Todgers Todgers's told Tom Pinch took Tower of London turned voice walked word young ladies youngest gentleman
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Sivu 328 - In these dilapidated articles of dress she had, on principle, arrayed herself, time out of mind, on such occasions as the present; for this at once expressed a decent amount of veneration for the deceased, and invited the next...
Sivu 329 - Mrs. Harris,' I says, at the very last case as ever I acted in, which it was but a young person, 'Mrs. Harris,' I says, 'leave the bottle on the chimley-piece, and don't ask me to take none, but let me put my lips to it when I am so dispoged, and then I will do what I'm engaged to do, according to the best of my ability.
Sivu 27 - MENTION has been already made more than once, of a certain Dragon who swung and creaked complainingly before the village ale-house door. A faded, and an ancient dragon he was ; and many a wintry storm of rain, snow, sleet, and hail, had changed his colour from a gaudy blue to a faint lacklustre shade of gray.
Sivu 329 - 'be they gents or be they ladies, is, Don't ask me whether I won't take none or whether I will, but leave the bottle on the chimley piece, and let me put my lips to it when I am so dispoged.
Sivu 329 - Ah dear ! When Gamp was summonsed to his long home, and I see him a lying in Guy's Hospital with a penny piece on each eye, and his wooden leg under his left arm, I thought I should have fainted away. But I bore up.
Sivu 13 - Pecksniff sat upon a stool, because she was all girlishness, and playfulnesss, and wildness, and kittenish buoyancy. She was the most arch and at the same time the most artless creature, was the youngest Miss Pecksniff, that you can possibly imagine.
Sivu 81 - Not at all ;" though it forced him into such an awkward position, that he had much ado to see anything but his own knees. But it is an ill wind that blows nobody any good ; and the wisdom of the saying was verified in this instance ; for the cold air came from Mr.
Sivu 259 - One!' The earth covered with a sable pall as for the burial of yesterday ; the clumps of dark trees, its giant plumes of funeral feathers, waving sadly to and fro; all hushed, all noiseless, and in deep repose, save the swift clouds that skim across the moon, and the cautious wind, as, creeping after them upon the ground, it stops to listen, and goes rustling on, and stops again, and follows, like a savage on the trail. Whither go the clouds and wind, so eagerly? If, like guilty spirits, they repair...
Sivu 14 - In one sense, and only one, he may be said to have been a Land Surveyor on a pretty large scale, as an extensive prospect lay stretched out before the windows of his house. Of his architectural doings, nothing was clearly known, except that he had never designed or built anything; but it was generally understood that his knowledge of the science was almost awful in its profundity.
Sivu 394 - A fiat morass, bestrewn with fallen timber ; a marsh on which the good growth of the earth seemed to have been wrecked and cast away, that from its decomposing ashes vile and ugly things might rise...