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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesAllan asked Bagnet Baronet better Bleak House Boythorn Bucket Caddy Chadband chair Chancery Charley Chesney Wold child comes consider court Court of Chancery cousin cried curtsey dear door Esther eyes face father fire gentleman George give gone Guardian Guppy Guster guv'ner hand happy head hear heard heart honour hope Jarndyce Jarndyce and Jarndyce Jobling Kenge knew Krook Lady Dedlock ladyship laugh light Lincolnshire little woman look Lord Lord Chancellor manner mean mind Miss Flite Miss Summerson morning mother never night Peepy Phil poor present replied returned Richard Rouncewell round says seemed shaking Sir Leicester Dedlock sitting Skimpole Smallweed smile Snagsby speak suppose sure talk tell thing thought told Tony took trooper Tulkinghorn turned Turveydrop Vholes voice Volumnia walk Weevle window wish Woodcourt words young Popular passagesPage 9 - Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill. Page 10 - ... prentice boy on deck. Chance people on the bridges peeping over the parapets into a nether sky of fog, with fog all round them, as if they were up in a balloon, and hanging in the misty clouds. Page 9 - Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snowflakes — gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun. Page 26 - So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. Page 26 - Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning : lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch. Page 369 - It is a melancholy truth, that even great men have their poor relations. Indeed, great men have often more than their fair share of poor relations ; inasmuch as very red blood of the superior quality, like inferior blood unlawfully shed, will cry ••aloud, and will be heard. Sir Leicester's cousins, in the remotest degree, are so many Murders, in the respect that they "will out. Page 217 - Over yinder. Among them piles of bones, and close to that there kitchin winder ! They put him wery nigh the top. They was obliged to stamp upon it to git it in. I could unkiver it for you with my broom, if the gate was open. That's why they locks it, I s'pose, Page 12 - Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit has, in course of time, become so complicated, that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least; but it has been... Page 108 - I've been drunk for three days; and I'da been drunk four if I'da had the money. Don't I never mean for to go to church? No, I don't never mean for to go to church. I shouldn't be expected there, if I did; the beadle's too gen-teel for me. And how did my wife get that black eye? Why, I give it her; and if she says I didn't, she's a lie! Page 609 - Where they laid him as wos wery good to me, wery good to me indeed, he wos. It's time fur me to go down to that there berryin ground, sir, and ask to be put along with him. I wants to go there and be berried. He used fur to say to me, 'I am as poor as you to-day, Jo,' he ses. I wants to tell him that I am as poor as him now and have come there to be laid along with him. Bibliographic information
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