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
Where graceful youth should have filled their features out, and touched them with its freshest tints, a stale and shrivelled hand, like that of age, had pinched, and twisted them, and pulled them into shreds. The Circumlocution Office2021-01-13T18:56:20+00:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Appearance (Person), Poverty| Read More
He tried to say “Humbug!” but stopped at the first syllable. The Circumlocution Office2021-01-08T20:36:17+00:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Humbug, Redemption, Self-doubt| Read More
The shouts of wonder and delight with which the development of every package was received! The Circumlocution Office2020-12-25T12:56:10+00:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Childhood, Christmas, Gifts, Joy| Read More
The fog and frost so hung about the black old gateway of the house, that it seemed as if the Genius of the Weather sat in mournful meditation on the threshold. The Circumlocution Office2020-12-14T09:40:57+00:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Appearance (Places), Fog, Weather| Read More
A gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building up a yard, where it had so little business to be, that one could scarcely help fancying it must have run there when it was a young house, playing at hide-and-seek with other houses, and forgotten the way out again. The Circumlocution Office2020-12-09T09:36:03+00:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Appearance (Places), Home, Houses| Read More
Boys were in great spirits, and shouted to each other, until the broad fields were so full of merry music, that the crisp air laughed to hear it! The Circumlocution Office2020-12-09T09:35:20+00:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Childhood, Children, Past, Weather| Read More
The ancient tower of a church, whose gruff old bell was always peeping slily down at Scrooge out of a Gothic window in the wall, became invisible, and struck the hours and quarters in the clouds, with tremulous vibrations afterwards as if its teeth were chattering in its frozen head up there. The Circumlocution Office2020-12-04T17:31:20+00:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Church Bells, Churches, Cold, Teeth| Read More
Great, round, pot-bellied baskets of chestnuts, shaped like the waistcoats of jolly old gentlemen, lolling at the doors, and tumbling out into the street in their apoplectic opulence. The Circumlocution Office2020-12-07T12:46:21+00:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Appearance (Person), Food| Read More
Leave me! Take me back. Haunt me no longer! The Circumlocution Office2020-11-25T08:32:41+00:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Regret| Read More
Slow potatoes bubbling up, knocked loudly at the saucepan-lid to be let out and peeled. The Circumlocution Office2020-12-07T12:08:08+00:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Food| Read More
A cheerful company assembled round a glowing fire. The Circumlocution Office2020-12-07T15:58:46+00:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Family, Fire, Group| Read More
Make up the fires! The Circumlocution Office2020-11-21T15:46:54+00:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Fire, Generosity| Read More
