Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickenswas an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 February 1812
action black devoted fierce hatred looked standing wild
With a fierce action of her hand, as if she sprinkled hatred on the ground, and with it devoted those who were standing there to destruction, she looked up once at the black sky, and strode out into the wild night.
affection hypocrisy shining
With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.
affection
With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation out of the other.
english-novelist
This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
change expect merely mrs returned
It's nothing, returned Mrs Chick. ""It's merely change of weather. We must expect change.
cuts head says wrong
It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always says in Turkey, when they cuts the wrong man's head off
meeting
It's my opinion, sir, that this meeting is drunk.
dictionary eyes folding idiots leaning letter slightly smoking speaking word
Then idiots talk, said Eugene, leaning back, folding his arms, smoking with his eyes shut, and speaking slightly through his nose, ""of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy.
closed forgive god lips lives object past wear
The object of our lives is won. Henceforth let us wear it silently. My lips are closed upon the past from this hour. I forgive you your part in to-morrow's wickedness. May God forgive my own!
bosom capital hang jewels repose
It was not a bosom to repose upon, but it was a capital bosom to hang jewels upon.
against besides dry fancy frequently ground mine palms squeeze
It was no fancy of mine about his hands, I observed; for he frequently ground the palms against each other as if to squeeze them dry and warm, besides often wiping them, in a stealthy way, on his pocket-handkerchief
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Oh Sammy, Sammy, vy worn't there a alleybi!
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Oh Jaggerth, Jaggerth, Jaggerth! all otherth ith Cag-Maggerth, give me Jaggerth!
manners tricks
Oh! I know their tricks and their manners.