Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. The Circumlocution Office2019-05-31T15:19:51+01:00Categories: The Old Curiosity Shop|Tags: Alcohol, Humour| Read More
Many’s the hard day’s walking in rain and mud, and with never a penny earned. The Circumlocution Office2019-05-31T15:40:43+01:00Categories: The Old Curiosity Shop|Tags: Theatre, Work| Read More
She’s the ornament of her sex. The Circumlocution Office2019-05-31T15:29:40+01:00Categories: The Old Curiosity Shop|Tags: Women| Read More
The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer’s shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked to death in dusty corners of the window. The Circumlocution Office2019-05-31T15:38:19+01:00Categories: The Old Curiosity Shop|Tags: Animals| Read More
Why is it that we can better bear to part in spirit than in body, and while we have the fortitude to act farewell have not the nerve to say it? The Circumlocution Office2019-05-31T15:56:03+01:00Categories: The Old Curiosity Shop|Tags: Emotions, Farewell| Read More
Here were poor streets where faded gentility essayed with scanty space and shipwrecked means to make its last feeble stand, but tax-gatherer and creditor came there as elsewhere, and the poverty that yet faintly struggled was hardly less squalid and manifest than that which had long ago submitted and given up the game. The Circumlocution Office2019-05-31T15:47:21+01:00Categories: The Old Curiosity Shop|Tags: Appearance (Places), Poverty, Slums| Read More
She was dead. No sleep so beautiful and calm, so free from trace of pain, so fair to look upon. The Circumlocution Office2019-05-31T15:50:31+01:00Categories: The Old Curiosity Shop|Tags: Death| Read More
Under an accumulation of staggerers, no man can be considered a free agent. No man knocks himself down; if his destiny knocks him down, his destiny must pick him up again. The Circumlocution Office2019-05-31T15:44:36+01:00Categories: The Old Curiosity Shop|Tags: Destiny| Read More
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers. The Circumlocution Office2019-05-31T15:42:52+01:00Categories: The Old Curiosity Shop|Tags: Law| Read More
