Tickler was a wax-ended piece of cane, worn smooth by collision with my tickled frame. The Circumlocution Office2023-01-07T16:53:05+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Abuse, Child Abuse, Childhood, Domestic Violence| Read More
I often served as a connubial missile. The Circumlocution Office2023-01-07T16:40:44+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Abuse, Child Abuse, Childhood, Domestic Violence| Read More
A sort of Hercules in strength, and also in weakness. The Circumlocution Office2023-01-06T19:07:26+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Appearance (Person), Strength| Read More
Such a prevailing redness of skin that I sometimes used to wonder whether it was possible she washed herself with a nutmeg-grater instead of soap. The Circumlocution Office2023-01-06T19:09:30+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Appearance (Person), Skin| Read More
My first fancies regarding what they were like were unreasonably derived from their tombstones. The Circumlocution Office2023-01-04T07:44:38+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Appearance (Person), Reading, Shorthand| Read More
His eyes looked most powerfully down into mine, and mine looked most helplessly up into his. The Circumlocution Office2023-01-04T07:44:13+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Eyes, Fear, Looking, Menacing, Nerves, Nervousness, Staring, Threats| Read More
Next to Christmas-day, the most pleasant annual epoch in existence is the advent of the New Year. The Circumlocution Office2022-12-31T15:23:54+00:00Categories: The New Year|Tags: New Year| Read More
There must have been some few occurrences in the past year to which we can look back, with a smile of cheerful recollection, if not with a feeling of heartfelt thankfulness. The Circumlocution Office2022-12-31T16:01:31+00:00Categories: The New Year|Tags: New Year, Thankfulness| Read More
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 Office2023-01-09T15:20:30+00:00Categories: 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
