When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of life. The Circumlocution Office2021-09-19T21:33:06+01:00Categories: Bleak House|Tags: Appearance (Places), Moon, Night, Solitude| Read More
Shake me up, somebody, if you’ll be so good. The Circumlocution Office2023-07-30T21:34:56+01:00Categories: Bleak House|Tags: Appearance (Person), Disability, Health| Read More
Always the same speechless repository of noble confidences, so oddly out of place and yet so perfectly at home. The Circumlocution Office2021-07-18T20:57:48+01:00Categories: Bleak House|Tags: Law, Secrets| Read More
An oyster of the old school whom nobody can open. The Circumlocution Office2021-01-27T21:27:59+00:00Categories: Bleak House|Tags: Appearance (Person), Oysters, Secrets, Solitary| Read More
You had better be sure that you wish to say nothing more to me, this being the last time you will have the opportunity. The Circumlocution Office2021-01-19T19:58:11+00:00Categories: Bleak House|Tags: Secrets, Speaking, Talking| Read More
Short, cadaverous, and withered, with his head sunk sideways between his shoulders and the breath issuing in visible smoke from his mouth as if he were on fire within. The Circumlocution Office2021-01-18T22:18:35+00:00Categories: Bleak House|Tags: Alcohol, Appearance (Person), Behaviour| Read More
He is a very eccentric person. He is very odd. Oh, I assure you he is very odd! The Circumlocution Office2021-01-19T13:52:22+00:00Categories: Bleak House|Tags: Behaviour, Eccentric, Odd| Read More
Whiskers like the fibres of a coco-nut. The Circumlocution Office2020-07-13T22:13:09+01:00Categories: Bleak House|Tags: Appearance (Person)| Read More
His voice, short, deep, and resonant, is not at all unlike the tones of the instrument to which he is devoted. The Circumlocution Office2020-05-07T22:50:37+01:00Categories: Bleak House|Tags: Music, Speaking, Voice| Read More
She covered her discoloured eye with her hand, as though she wished to separate any association with noise and violence and ill treatment from the poor little child. The Circumlocution Office2019-04-14T08:31:32+01:00Categories: Bleak House|Tags: Domestic Violence| Read More
I have a great deal of difficulty in beginning to write my portion of these pages, for I know I am not clever. The Circumlocution Office2019-04-14T08:34:32+01:00Categories: Bleak House|Tags: Intelligence| Read More
I expect a judgment. Shortly. The Circumlocution Office2019-04-14T09:03:05+01:00Categories: Bleak House|Tags: Bureauracy, Law| Read More
A large yellow man with a fat smile and a general appearance of having a good deal of train oil in his system. The Circumlocution Office2019-04-14T08:35:29+01:00Categories: Bleak House|Tags: Appearance (Person)| Read More
A good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell. The Circumlocution Office2019-04-14T09:05:07+01:00Categories: Bleak House|Tags: Talking| Read More
From that hour I felt quite easy with him, quite unreserved, quite content to know no more, quite happy. The Circumlocution Office2019-04-14T08:32:07+01:00Categories: Bleak House|Tags: Emotions| Read More
