Shake me up, somebody, if you’ll be so good. The Circumlocution Office2021-07-18T20:47:06+01:00Categories: Bleak House|Tags: Appearance (Person), Disability, Health| Read More
A large hard-breathing middle-aged slow man, with a mouth like a fish, dull staring eyes, and sandy hair standing upright on his head, so that he looked as if he had just been all but choked, and had that moment come to. The Circumlocution Office2021-07-04T16:58:25+01:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Appearance (Person), Breathing, Eyes, Hair| Read More
The expression of a man’s face is commonly a help to his thoughts, or glossary on his speech. The Circumlocution Office2021-04-30T22:51:03+01:00Categories: Nicholas Nickleby|Tags: Appearance (Person), Expression| Read More
Betsy of Yarmouth with a firm formality of bosom and her knobby eyes starting two inches out of her head. The Circumlocution Office2021-04-28T23:27:51+01:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Appearance, Boats, Transport| Read More
A tough, high-shouldered, stooping old man, of a sawdusty fragrance, with his legs extraordinarily wide apart: so that in my short days I always saw some miles of open country between them when I met him coming up the lane. The Circumlocution Office2021-03-12T21:16:27+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Appearance (Person), Legs, Smell| Read More
A most particularly short man, and so fat, that he seemed all face and waistcoat. The Circumlocution Office2021-02-22T08:11:25+00:00Categories: The Pickwick Papers|Tags: Appearance (Person), Law| Read More
The flickering of the blaze showed preparations for a cosy dinner, with hot plates baking through and through before the fire, and deep red curtains, ready to be drawn to shut out cold and darkness. The Circumlocution Office2021-02-22T08:04:04+00:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Fire, Food| Read More
The yard was so dark that even Scrooge, who knew its every stone, was fain to grope with his hands. The Circumlocution Office2021-02-08T21:57:15+00:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Darkness, Light| 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
Wonderful party, wonderful games, wonderful unanimity, won-der-ful happiness! The Circumlocution Office2021-02-07T20:20:23+00:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Celebration, Christmas, Happiness, Joy| 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
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 Office2021-02-08T21:56:14+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
