I ran right up at it, and had my hand stretched out to pull the sleeve away, when it was gone. The Circumlocution Office2022-11-09T15:42:16+00:00Categories: The Signal-Man|Tags: Ghostly, Railways, Supernatural, Suspense| Read More
I am not at all happy as I am. I am disgusted with my calling and with my life. The Circumlocution Office2022-10-30T21:14:05+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Class, Emotions, Happiness, Self-doubt| Read More
The man took strong sharp sudden bites, just like the dog. The Circumlocution Office2022-10-11T16:01:01+01:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Animals, Dogs, Eating, Hunger| Read More
The first of May! There is a merry freshness in the sound, calling to our minds a thousand thoughts of all that is pleasant in nature and beautiful in her most delightful form. The Circumlocution Office2022-05-01T06:57:32+01:00Categories: The First of May|Tags: May, Nature| Read More
I’m always ill after Shakespeare. The Circumlocution Office2022-05-09T12:02:18+01:00Categories: Nicholas Nickleby|Tags: Literature, Shakespeare| Read More
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
She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I don’t know what she was—anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. There was no pausing on the brink; no looking down, or looking back; I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her. The Circumlocution Office2022-02-14T00:17:36+00:00Categories: David Copperfield|Tags: Attraction, Love| Read More
Whatever brings a public man and his public face to face, on terms of mutual confidence and respect, is a good thing. The Circumlocution Office2022-01-05T20:06:39+00:00Categories: Speeches|Tags: Celebrity, Fame| Read More
If we look at our social and daily life, we shall see how constantly present the press is, and how essential an element it has become of civilised existence. The Circumlocution Office2021-12-29T08:23:27+00:00Categories: Speeches|Tags: Media, Press| Read More
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
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
Would you so soon put out, with worldly hands, the light I give? The Circumlocution Office2022-10-07T13:52:37+01:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Redemption| Read More
Marley was dead: to begin with. The Circumlocution Office2022-10-07T13:50:33+01:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Death| Read More
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 Office2022-10-06T17:08:21+01:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Appearance (Person), Breathing, Eyes, Hair| Read More
