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 Office2022-12-18T22:17:35+00:00Categories: 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 Office2023-01-17T11:13:24+00:00Categories: 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 Office2022-10-06T17:07:15+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 Office2023-01-15T18:32:37+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 Office2022-02-28T22:42:53+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 Office2022-10-07T13:49:18+01:00Categories: 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 Office2022-10-07T13:53:29+01:00Categories: 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
