“I wouldn’t make a downright lawyer o’ the lad,—I should be sorry for him to be a raskill,—but a sort o’ engineer, or a surveyor, or an auctioneer and vallyer, like Riley, or one o’ them smartish businesses as are all profits and no outlay, only for a big watch-chain and a high stool.”
― The Mill on the Floss
― The Mill on the Floss
“Dan begin jy voel soos die hond wat die bus gevang het. Ongemaklik. Want dié groot, vet bus loop skynbaar nie net na bestemming Bevordering nie. Daar is ander plekke waar hy ook kan stop.”
― Die vrou in die blou mantel
― Die vrou in die blou mantel
“Time and feeding had expanded that once romantic form; the black silk waistcoat had become more and more developed; inch by inch had the gold watch-chain beneath it disappeared from within the range of Tupman's vision; and gradually had the capacious chin encroached upon the borders of the white cravat: but the soul of Tupman had known no change—admiration of the fair sex was still its ruling passion.”
― The Pickwick Papers
― The Pickwick Papers
“Less and fewer. Less applies to a reduced quantity. Fewer applies to a reduced number:”
― Advocacy
― Advocacy
“Like a dingy London bird among the birds at roost in these pleasant fields, where the sheep are all made into parchment, the goats into wigs, and the pasture into chaff, the lawyer, smoke-dried and faded, dwelling among mankind but not consorting with them, aged without experience of genial youth, and so long used to make his cramped nest in holes and corners of human nature that he has forgotten its broader and better range, comes sauntering home. In the oven made by the hot pavements and hot buildings, he has baked himself dryer than usual; and he has in his thirsty mind his mellowed port-wine half a century old.”
― Bleak House
― Bleak House
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