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Common terms and phrasesAda's appeared asked Badger beadle beautiful better Bleak House Boythorn Caddy called Captain Swosser Carboy Carstone Chadband chair Chancery Chancery Lane Charley Chesney Wold child Coavinses coming Cook's Court Court of Chancery cousin cried dear dinner door Esther eyes face felt fire gentleman girl guardian Guppy Guster hair hand head hear heard heart hope Jarndyce and Jarndyce Jellyby's Jobling Kenge and Carboy's knew Krook Lady Dedlock laughed light Lincolnshire live look Lord Chancellor manner mean mind Miss Flite Miss Jellyby Miss Summerson never night old lady Pardiggle Peepy poor portmanteau present pretty replied returned Richard Rouncewell round says seemed shaking Shropshire Sir Leicester sitting Skimpole Smallweed smile Snagsby Snagsby's suppose sure talk tell thing thought tion told took Tulkinghorn turned Turveydrop up-stairs voice walk whisper window young Popular passagesPage 2 - ... everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping, and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. Fog on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs, fog lying out on the yards, and hovering in the rigging of great ships; fog drooping on the gunwales of barges and small boats. Page 54 - She was a pretty, very diminutive, plump woman, of from forty to fifty, with handsome eyes, though they had a curious habit of seeming to look a long way off. As if — I am quoting Richard again — they could see nothing nearer than Africa. Page 6 - The little plaintiff or defendant, who was promised a new rocking-horse when Jarndyce and Jarndyce should be settled, has grown up, possessed himself of a real horse, and trotted away into the other world. Page 28 - 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 28 - 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 1 - 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 11 - But the evil of it is, that it is a world wrapped up in too much jeweller's . cotton and fine wool, and cannot hear the rushing of the larger worlds, and cannot see them as they circle round the sun. It is a deadened world, and its growth is sometimes unhealthy for want of air. Page 393 - Is it," says Chadband, glancing over the table, " from bread in various forms, from butter which is churned from the milk which is yielded untoe us by the cow, from the eggs which are laid by the fowl, from ham, from tongue, from sausage, and from such like ? It is. Then let us partake of the good things which are set before us ! " The persecutors denied that there was any particular gift in Mr. Page 226 - With the night, comes a slouching figure through the tunnel-court, to the outside of the iron gate. It holds the gate with its hands, and looks in between the bars; stands looking in for a little while. It then, with an old broom it carries, softly sweeps the step, and makes the archway clean. It does so, very busily and trimly; looks in again, a little while; and so departs. Jo, is it thou? Well, well! Though a rejected witness, who 'can't exactly say' what will be done to him in greater hands than... Page 326 - What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw with the broom, who had that distant ray of light upon him when he swept the... References to this bookFrom Google ScholarThe Affair of the Countess GörlitzJL Heilbron - 1994 - Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Bibliographic information
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