... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Pale and pinched-up faces hovered about the windows where was tempting food; hungry eyes wandered over the profusion guarded by one thin… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There is a drowsy state, between sleeping and waking, when you dream more in five minutes with your eyes half open, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I saw that the bride within the bridal dress has withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The town was glad with morning light; places that had shown ugly and distrustful all night long, now wore a smile; and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
... Waiter! raw beef-steak for the gentleman's eye,-nothing like raw beef-steak for a bruise, sir; cold lamp-post very good, but lamp-post inconvenient-damned… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Gold, for the instant, lost its luster in his eyes, for there were countless treasures of the heart which it could never… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Day was breaking at Plashwater Weir Mill Lock. Stars were yet visible, but there was dull light in the east that was… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
She forgot to be shy at the moment, in honestly warning him away from the sunken wreck he had a dream of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. Some men, like bats or owls, have… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man's opinion of a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It was a foggy day in London, and the fog was heavy and dark. Animate London, with smarting eyes and irritated lungs,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
He wore a sprinkling of powder upon his head, as if to make himself look benevolent; but if that were his purpose,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The nephew revenges himself for this, by holding his breath and terrifying his kinswoman with the dread belief that he has made… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Opening her eyes again, and seeing her husband's face across the table, she leaned forward to give it a pat on the… — 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
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