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
The fog came pouring in at every chink and keyhole, and was so dense without, that although the court was of the narrowest, the houses opposite were mere phantoms. The Circumlocution Office2020-11-16T08:56:56+00:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Fog, Ghosts, Weather| Read More
Candles were flaring in the windows of the neighbouring offices, like ruddy smears upon the palpable brown air. The Circumlocution Office2020-11-25T08:26:34+00:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Fog, Pollution| Read More
Inanimate London was a sooty spectre, divided in purpose between being visible and invisible, and so being wholly neither. The Circumlocution Office2019-04-12T19:31:31+01:00Categories: Our Mutual Friend|Tags: Environment, Fog, London, Pollution| Read More
Animate London, with smarting eyes and irritated lungs, was blinking, wheezing, and choking. The Circumlocution Office2019-04-12T19:31:14+01:00Categories: Our Mutual Friend|Tags: Environment, Fog, London, Pollution| Read More
Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. The Circumlocution Office2020-02-03T22:25:50+00:00Categories: Bleak House|Tags: Fog, London, Pollution, Sanitation, Weather| Read More
The whole metropolis was a heap of vapour charged with muffled sound of wheels, and enfolding a gigantic catarrh. The Circumlocution Office2019-04-12T18:05:34+01:00Categories: Our Mutual Friend|Tags: Environment, Fog, London, Pollution| Read More
A sobbing gaslight in the counting-house window, and a burglarious stream of fog creeping in to strangle it through the keyhole of the main door. The Circumlocution Office2019-04-12T19:32:12+01:00Categories: Our Mutual Friend|Tags: Appearance (Places), Fog, London| Read More