Ancestor Quote by Charles Dickens

Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead…

— Charles Dickens

“Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.”

— Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

— Charles Dickens

“Bob Marley Is Already Died But His Words Echo Is Still Sounded At The Back Yard…”

— eBee

Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the…

— Charles Dickens

“Then came the march past the victims. The two men were no longer alive. Their tongues were hanging out, swollen and bluish. But the…

— Elie Wiesel

Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry; His form was bent, and his gait was slow, His…

— George Arnold

“The old man with the white beard had gone quite mad. He ripped his robes from his body and ran naked through the forest…

— Jennifer M. Baldwin

“There's some that came here never believing they were dead. They insisted all the way that they were alive, it was a mistake, someone…

— Philip Pullman

“In Wright Morris's novel Plains Song, the narrator asks, "Is the past a story we are persuaded to believe, in the teeth of the…

— Elliott West

“Here is a sermon for you, Reverend: Everything not dead dies. Just like those little fellows scooting around beside that dead mamma goose, little…

— Allan Dare Pearce

“Some one had that day been buried, and less care than is usual had been taken in closing up the grave, for, as I…

— John William Polidori