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oldenglish (16)in #pumblechook • 2 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Great Expectations #14/236
The course terminated, and Mr. Pumblechook had begun to beam under the genial influence of gin-and-water. I began to think I should get over the day, when my sister said to Joe…
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oldenglish (16)in #pumblechook • 12 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Great Expectations #13/236
Pumblechook, who had an objection to being interrupted; “I mean, enjoying himself with his elders and betters, and improving himself with their conversation, and rolling in the…
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oldenglish (16)in #pig • 25 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Great Expectations #12/236
Hubble as a tough, high-shouldered, stooping old man, of a saw-dusty fragrance, with his legs extraordinarily wide apart : so that in my short days I always saw some miles of…
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oldenglish (16)in #clergyman • last month
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Great Expectations #11/236
I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuading arguments of my best friends.…
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oldenglish (16)in #constable • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Great Expectations #10/236
I was very much afraid of him again, now that he had worked himself into this fierce hurry, and I was likewise very much afraid of keepingaway from home any longer. I told him I…
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oldenglish (16)in #hound • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Great Expectations #9/236
You’d be but a fierce young hound indeed, if at your time of life you could help to hunt a wretched warmint, hunted as near death and dunghill as this poor wretched warmint…
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oldenglish (16)in #ditch • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Great Expectations #8/236
It wasn’t for myself I took it!” Upon which, he put down his head, blew a cloud of smoke out of his nose, and vanished with a kick-up of his hind legs and a flourish of his…
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oldenglish (16)in #terror • 3 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Great Expectations #7/236
I was in mortal terror of the young man who wanted my heart and liver; I was in mortal terror of my interlocutor with the ironed leg; I was in mortal terror of myself, from whom…
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oldenglish (16)in #convict • 3 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Great Expectations #6/236
At other times, I thought, what if the young man who was with so much difficulty restrained from imbruing his hands in me, should yield to a constitutional impatience, or should…
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oldenglish (16)in #butter • 3 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Great Expectations #5/236
At last, I desperately considered that the thing I contemplated must be done, and that it had best be done in the least improbable manner consistent with the circumstances. I…
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oldenglish (16)in #strayed • 3 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Great Expectations #4/236
Get behind the door, old chap, and have the jack-towel betwixt you.”I took the advice. My sister, Mrs. Joe, throwing the door wide open, and finding an obstruction behind it…
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oldenglish (16)in #river • 3 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Great Expectations #3/236
But presently I looked over my shoulder, and saw him going on again towards the river, still hugging himself in both arms, and picking his way with his sore feet among the great…
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oldenglish (16)in #gargery • 4 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Great Expectations #2/236
“There, sir!” I timidly exclaimed.“ ‘Also Georgiana.’ That’s my mother.”“Oh!” said he, coming back. “And is that your father alonger your mother?”“Yes, sir,” said I ; “him too;…
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oldenglish (16)in #tombstones • 4 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Great Expectations #1/236
1MY FATHER’S FAMILY NAME BEING PIRRIP, AND MY Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip…
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