The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, المجلد 2B. Tauchnitz, 1842 |
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afore ain't appeared Arabella arter Bardell Ben Allen Benjamin Allen better Bladud Bob Sawyer Brick Lane chair clerk Cluppins coach coat countenance dear Sir Dodson and Fogg door Dowler Esquire exclaimed eyes face fat boy father feelings fellow gen'lm'n Gray's Inn hand head hear heerd inquired Jackson Jingle John Smauker knock legs looking round Lowten ma'am manner Mary matter mind morning never night nodded nothin old gentleman old lady once Pell Phunky Pickwick Club pocket Pott prison Raddle rayther rejoined replied Bob replied Perker replied Sam Roker Sam Weller Sam's Samivel Sammy Samuel Weller Sergeant Buzfuz Sergeant Snubbin Slurk Smangle smile Snodgrass stairs Stiggins stopped there's thing thought tipstaff took Tupman turned uncle Vell vich vith voice walked Wardle wery whispered wick Wilkins Flasher Winkle Winkle's words young lady
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الصفحة 6 - DO skate, Mr. Winkle,' said Arabella. 'I like to see it so much.' 'Oh, it is SO graceful,' said another young lady. A third young lady said it was elegant, and a fourth expressed her opinion that it was 'swan-like.
الصفحة 9 - Lift him up," said Mr. Pickwick. Sam assisted him to rise. Mr. Pickwick retired a few paces apart from the bystanders ; and, beckoning his friend to approach, fixed a searching look upon him, and uttered in a low, but distinct and emphatic tone, these remarkable words, — " You're a humbug, sir." "A what !" said Mr. Winkle, starting. "A humbug, sir. I will speak plainer, if you wish it. An impostor, sir.
الصفحة 74 - Gentlemen, what does this mean? Chops and Tomato sauce. Yours, Pickwick! Chops! Gracious heavens! and Tomato sauce! Gentlemen, is the happiness of a sensitive and confiding female to be trifled away by such shallow artifices as these? The next has no date whatever, which is in itself suspicious. "Dear Mrs. B., I shall not be at home till to-morrow. Slow coach." And then follows this very remarkable expression: "Don't trouble yourself about the warming-pan.
الصفحة 85 - I believe you are in the service of Mr. Pickwick, the defendant in this case. Speak up, if you please, Mr. Weller." " I mean to speak up, sir," replied Sam ; " I am in the service o' that 'ere gen'l'man, and a wery good service it is.
الصفحة 87 - Yes, I have a pair of eyes," replied Sam, "and that's just it. If they wos a pair o' patent double million magnifyin' gas microscopes of hextra power, p'raps I might be able to see through a flight o' stairs and a deal door ; but bein' only eyes, you see, my wision's limited.
الصفحة 6 - All this time, Mr Winkle, with his face and hands blue with the cold, had been forcing a gimlet into the soles of his feet, and putting his skates on, with the points behind, and getting the straps into a very complicated and entangled state, with the assistance of Mr Snodgrass, who knew rather less about skates than a Hindoo.
الصفحة 54 - That's the difficulty,' said Sam; 'I don't know what to sign it.' ' Sign it — Veller,' said the oldest surviving proprietor of that name. ' Won't do,
الصفحة 75 - Eligible single gentlemen pass and repass — but there is no invitation for them to inquire within or without. All is gloom and silence in the house; even the voice of the child is hushed; his infant sports are disregarded when his mother weeps; his "alley tors" and his "commoneys" are alike neglected; he forgets the long familiar cry of "knuckle down," and at tip-cheese, or odd and even, his hand is out.
الصفحة 72 - I look for protection, for assistance, for comfort, and for consolation; in single gentlemen I shall perpetually see something to remind me of what Mr. Bardell was, when he first won my young and untried affections. To a single gentleman, then, shall my lodgings be let.
الصفحة 73 - ... for the washerwoman when it went abroad, darned, aired, and prepared it for wear, when it came home, and, in short, enjoyed his fullest trust and confidence. I shall show you that, on many occasions, he gave halfpence, and on some occasions even sixpences, to her little boy ; and I shall prove to you, by a witness whose testimony it will be impossible for my learned friend to weaken or controvert, that on one occasion he patted the boy on the head, and, after...