I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. The Circumlocution Office2023-01-15T23:24:51+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Appearance (Person), Nose| Read More
A sort of Hercules in strength, and also in weakness. The Circumlocution Office2023-04-29T16:40:44+01:00Categories: 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 Office2023-08-16T21:33:41+01:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Appearance (Person), Reading, Shorthand| Read More
Shake me up, somebody, if you’ll be so good. The Circumlocution Office2023-07-30T21:34:56+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 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
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
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
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
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 Office2022-10-07T14:33:49+01:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Appearance (Person), Poverty| 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 Office2022-10-07T17:19:38+01:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Appearance (Person), Food| Read More
A lovely girl, with a frank face, and wonderful eyes; so large, so soft, so bright, set to such perfection in her kind good head. The Circumlocution Office2020-10-22T18:15:29+01:00Categories: Little Dorrit|Tags: Appearance (Person), Eyes| Read More
The train of nods which the fat boy gave by way of assent, communicated a blanc-mange like motion to his fat cheeks. The Circumlocution Office2023-01-19T12:14:11+00:00Categories: The Pickwick Papers|Tags: Appearance (Person), Food, Obesity| Read More
