You didn’t take your wife for fast and for loose; but for better for worse. The Circumlocution Office2022-02-20T22:35:30+00:00Categories: Hard Times|Tags: Divorce, Love, Marriage| Read More
No temperature made the melancholy mad elephants more mad or more sane. Their wearisome heads went up and down at the same rate, in hot weather and cold, wet weather and dry, fair weather and foul. The Circumlocution Office2022-02-26T11:07:34+00:00Categories: Hard Times|Tags: Appearance (Places), Coketown, Elephants, Machinery, Steam Engines| Read More
Thou changest me from bad to good. The Circumlocution Office2022-02-26T11:17:34+00:00Categories: Hard Times|Tags: Friends, Good, Love| Read More
A quiet oval face, dark and rather delicate, irradiated by a pair of very gentle eyes, and further set off by the perfect order of her shining black hair. The Circumlocution Office2022-02-26T11:18:28+00:00Categories: Hard Times|Tags: Appearance (Person)| Read More
A creature so foul to look at, in her tatters, stains and splashes, but so much fouler than that in her moral infamy, that it was a shameful thing even to see her. The Circumlocution Office2022-02-26T11:15:25+00:00Categories: Hard Times|Tags: Alcohol, Appearance (Person), Drink| Read More
A town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage. The Circumlocution Office2022-11-15T23:27:37+00:00Categories: Hard Times|Tags: Appearance (Places), Coketown, Environment, Industrial Revolution, Pollution| Read More
The atmosphere of those Fairy palaces was like the breath of the simoom: and their inhabitants, wasting with heat, toiled languidly in the desert. The Circumlocution Office2022-02-26T11:21:33+00:00Categories: Hard Times|Tags: Appearance (Places), Coketown, Environment, Heat, Industrial Revolution, Industry, Pollution, Wind| Read More
The whole town seemed to be frying in oil. The Circumlocution Office2022-11-15T23:28:18+00:00Categories: Hard Times|Tags: Appearance (Places), Coketown, Environment, Heat, Industrial Revolution, Pollution| Read More
The piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness. The Circumlocution Office2023-01-24T14:24:13+00:00Categories: Hard Times|Tags: Appearance (Places), Coketown, Elephants, Industrial Revolution, Industry, Machinery, Steam Engines| Read More
All the public inscriptions in the town were painted alike, in severe characters of black and white. The Circumlocution Office2022-11-15T23:26:56+00:00Categories: Hard Times|Tags: Appearance (Places), Coketown, Industrial Revolution| Read More
A town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled. The Circumlocution Office2022-11-15T20:38:28+00:00Categories: Hard Times|Tags: Appearance (Places), Coketown, Environment, Industrial Revolution, Industry, Machinery, Pollution| Read More
Her stately frame so racked by continual sneezes that it seemed in danger of dismemberment. The Circumlocution Office2020-05-29T09:43:52+01:00Categories: Hard Times|Tags: Appearance (Person)| Read More
There was a light with nothing to rest upon, a fire with nothing to burn, a starved imagination keeping life in itself somehow. The Circumlocution Office2022-02-26T11:24:45+00:00Categories: Hard Times|Tags: Appearance (Person), Emotions, Imagination| Read More
A man made out of a coarse material, which seemed to have been stretched to make so much of him. The Circumlocution Office2022-02-26T11:25:59+00:00Categories: Hard Times|Tags: Appearance (Person)| Read More
He had not much hair. One might have fancied he had talked it off; and that what was left, all standing up in disorder, was in that condition from being constantly blown about by his windy boastfulness. The Circumlocution Office2022-02-26T11:27:04+00:00Categories: Hard Times|Tags: Appearance (Person)| Read More
