readings (8)in #slavery • 2 days ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Sketches By Boz - Illustrated And Annotated Edition #15/347Was it not more than possible—was it not very probable—that by the time Bung attained the latter age, he might see around him a family, even exceeding in number and extent, that…readings (8)in #spruggins • 10 days ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Sketches By Boz - Illustrated And Annotated Edition #14/347The nomination was fixed to take place in the vestry, but so great was the throng of anxious spectators, that it was found necessary to adjourn to the church, where the ceremony…readings (8)in #proceeding • 23 days ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Sketches By Boz - Illustrated And Annotated Edition #13/347The motion was lost by a majority of two; and then the captain, who never allows himself to be defeated, moved for a committee of inquiry into the whole subject. The affair grew…readings (8)in #beadle • last month[Literature] Charles Dickens: Sketches By Boz - Illustrated And Annotated Edition #12/347When we got up in the morning we saw that the knocker was tied up in an old white kid glove; and we, in our innocence (we were in a state of bachelorship then), wondered what on…readings (8)in #willis • 2 months ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Sketches By Boz - Illustrated And Annotated Edition #11/347It was also hastily reported on the same testimony, that the cook who opened the door, wore a large white bow of unusual dimensions, in a much smarter head-dress than the…readings (8)in #willises • 2 months ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Sketches By Boz - Illustrated And Annotated Edition #10/347Well, the Miss Willises took a lease of the house; it was fresh painted and papered from top to bottom: the paint inside was all wainscoted, the marble all cleaned, the old…readings (8)in #marigolds • 2 months ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Sketches By Boz - Illustrated And Annotated Edition #9/347A very different personage, but one who has rendered himself very conspicuous in our parish, is one of the old lady’s next-door neighbours. He is an old naval officer on…readings (8)in #princess • 2 months ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Sketches By Boz - Illustrated And Annotated Edition #8/347The little front parlour, which is the old lady’s ordinary sitting-room, is a perfect picture of quiet neatness; the carpet is covered with brown Holland, the glass and…readings (8)in #clergyman • 3 months ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Sketches By Boz - Illustrated And Annotated Edition #7/347He got out of bed at half-past twelve o’clock one winter’s night, to half-baptise a washerwoman’s child in a slop-basin, and the gratitude of the parishioners knew no bounds—the…readings (8)in #misfortune • 3 months ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Sketches By Boz - Illustrated And Annotated Edition #6/347He has been one of those men one occasionally hears of, on whom misfortune seems to have set her mark; nothing he ever did, or was concerned in, appears to have prospered. A…readings (8)in #beadle • 3 months ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Sketches By Boz - Illustrated And Annotated Edition #5/347After putting forth his right leg now and then, as a feeler, the victim who dropped the money ventures to make one or two distinct dives after it; and the beadle, gliding softly…readings (8)in #charity • 3 months ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Sketches By Boz - Illustrated And Annotated Edition #4/347A poor man, with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from hand to mouth, and to procure food from day to day; he has barely sufficient to satisfy the…readings (8)in #suspense • 4 months ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Sketches By Boz - Illustrated And Annotated Edition #3/347Suspense of any kind, as Forster says, was intolerable to him, so the next day he wrote again to his friend. "I sent down just now to know whether you were at home (two…readings (8)in #sketches • 4 months ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Sketches By Boz - Illustrated And Annotated Edition #2/347Twenty sketches followed at intervals of a week or two, and four more constituted a brief series in the same paper in 1836. Meanwhile, he contributed a series of a dozen papers…readings (8)in #dickens • 5 months ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Sketches By Boz - Illustrated And Annotated Edition #1/347Introduction The first bit of original writing by Dickens which found its way into print was the sketch in this volume entitled "Mr. Minns and his Cousin." In its first form…