The posthumous papers of the Pickwick club

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Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly, 1850 - Broj stranica: 609
 

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Stranica 242 - ... of the reel, at the very moment when Mr Bob Sawyer was performing a flourish of unparalleled beauty. Mr Winkle struck wildly against him, and with a loud crash they both fell heavily down. Mr Pickwick ran to the spot. Bob Sawyer had risen to his feet, but Mr Winkle was far too wise to do anything of the kind, in skates. He was seated on the ice, making spasmodic efforts to smile; but anguish was depicted on every lineament of his countenance. 'Are you hurt?' inquired Mr Benjamin Allen, with great...
Stranica 241 - All this time, Mr Winkle, with his face and hands blue with the cold, had been forcing a gimlet into the soles of his feet, and putting his skates on, with the points behind, and getting the straps into a very complicated and entangled state, with the assistance of Mr Snodgrass, who knew rather less about skates than a Hindoo.
Stranica 32 - On the left of the spectator lay the ruined wall, broken in many places, and in some, overhanging the narrow beach below in rude and heavy masses. Huge knots of sea-weed hung upon the jagged and pointed stones, trembling in every breath of wind ; and the green ivy clung mournfully round the dark and ruined battlements.
Stranica 278 - Mr. Bardell was a man of his word, Mr. Bardell was no deceiver, Mr. Bardell was once a single gentleman himself; to single gentlemen I look for protection, for assistance, for comfort, and for consolation ; in single gentlemen I shall perpetually see something to remind me of what Mr.
Stranica 88 - His landlady, Mrs. Bardell — the relict and sole executrix of a deceased custom-house officer — was a comely woman of bustling manners and agreeable appearance, with a natural genius for cooking, improved by study and long practice into an exquisite talent.
Stranica 285 - Here a voice in the gallery exclaimed aloud, 'Quite right too, Samivel, quite right. Put it down a we, my Lord, put it down a we.
Stranica 89 - That's very true,' said Mr. Pickwick, 'but the person I have in my eye (here he looked very hard at Mrs. Bardell) I think possesses these qualities; and has, moreover, a considerable knowledge of the world, and a great deal of sharpness, Mrs. Bardell, which may be of material use to me.' 'La, Mr. Pickwick,
Stranica 267 - Tain't in poetry, is it?' interposed the father. ' No, no,' replied Sam. 'Werry glad to hear it,' said Mr. Weller. 'Poetry's unnat'ral ; no man ever talked in poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin...
Stranica 267 - Sam dipped his pen into the ink to be ready for any corrections, and began with a very theatrical air : "'Lovely '" " Stop," said Mr Weller, ringing the bell. " A double glass o' the inwariable, my dear." " Very well, sir," replied the girl ; who with great quickness appeared, vanished, returned, and disappeared.
Stranica 267 - Mary my dear) altho it does finish a portrait and put the frame and glass on complete with a hook at the end to hang it up by and all in two minutes and a quarter.

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