Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
For your popular rumour, unlike the rolling stone of the proverb, is one which gathers a deal of moss in its wanderings… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the other like… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I took a good deal o' pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was very young,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Mr Jarndyce, and prevented his going any farther, when he had remarked that there were two classes of charitable people: one, the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You are hard at work madam ," said the man near her. Yes," Answered Madam Defarge ; " I have a good… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. Business!' cried… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We need be careful how we deal with those about us, when every death carries to some small circle of survivors, thoughts… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There once was a child, and he strolled about a good deal, and thought of a number of things. He had a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance; the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“evening, they began to think that although he could never hope to be an Englishman, still it would be hard to visit that affliction… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Besides which, all that I could have said of the Story to any purpose, I had endeavoured to say in it.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The wheels rolled on, and rolled down by the Monument, and by the Tower; and by the Docks; down by Ratcliffe, and by Rotherhithe;… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The three customers pulled off their hats to Madame Defarge, with three flourishes. She acknowledged their homage by bending her head, and giving them… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image