 ... swelled veins in his temples, and such a strained skin to his face that it seemed to hold his eyes open, and lift his eyebrows up. A man with a pervading appearance on him of being inflated like a balloon, and ready to start. A man who could never...  Hard Times: A Novel - Pągina 25per Charles Dickens - 1854 - 101 pąginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Charles Dickens - 1854 - 616 pągines
...balloon, and ready to start. A man who could never sufficiently vannt himself a selfmade man. A man who was always proclaiming, through that brassy speaking-trumpet...seven or eight added to it again, without surprising anybody. He had not much hair. One might have fancied he had talked it off; and that what was left,... | |
 | 1855
...balloon and ready to start; a man who could never sufficiently vaunt himself a self-made man; a man who was always proclaiming, through that brassy speaking-trumpet...voice of his, his old ignorance and his old poverty." We may know the most of Mr. Bounderby, perhaps, by seeing him on his birthday, as the day itself is... | |
 | 1866
...start. A man who could never sufficiently vaunt himself a self-made man. A man who was continually proclaiming, through that brassy speaking-trumpet...old poverty. A man who was the Bully of humility." If we turn from the moral and personal to the mental characteristics of Mr. Johnson's speeches, we... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1858
...balloon, and ready to start. A man who could never sufficiently vaunt himself a self-made man. A man who was always proclaiming, through that brassy speaking-trumpet...seven or eight added to it again, without surprising anybody. He had not much hair. One might have fancied he had talked it off ; and that what was left,... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1858
...balloon, and ready to start. A man who could never sufficiently vaunt himself a self-made man. A man who was always proclaiming, through that brassy speaking-trumpet...or two younger than his eminently practical friend, Air. Bounderby looked older; his seven or eight and forty might have had the seven or eight added to... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1868 - 559 pągines
...himself a self-made man. A man who was always proclaiming, through that brassy speaking-trumpet of a Vo:A of his, his old ignorance and his old poverty. A man...two younger than his eminently practical friend, Mr. BonnderbT looked older ; his seven or eight and forty might have had the seven or eight atiar: to it... | |
 | Gilbert Ashville Pierce, William Adolphus Wheeler - 1872 - 573 pągines
...who was always proclaiming, throngh that brassy speaking-trumpet of a voice of his, his old iguorance and his old poverty; a man who was the Bully of humility....seven or eight added to it again, without surprising anybody. He had not much hair. One might have fancied he had talked it otf; and that what was left,... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1873 - 564 pągines
...balloon, and ready to start. A man who could never sufficiently vaunt himself a self-made man. A man 7L722 5C720 /k6 2 5 3 1 1 7v7w7 ) 5 4 +v <7 7 3 +A4 7 . anybody. He had not much hair. One might have fancied he had talked it off; and that what was left,... | |
 | Henry J. Fox - 1876 - 134 pągines
...balloon, and ready to start. A man who could never sufficiently vaunt himself a self-made man. A man who was always proclaiming through that brassy speakingtrumpet...old poverty. A man who was the Bully of humility." Hard Times, Book i, chap. 4. — Of Sampson Brass: "This Brass was an attorney of no very good repute,... | |
 | Henry J. Fox - 1876 - 134 pągines
...balloon, and ready to start. A man who could never sufficiently vaunt himself a self-made man. A man who was always proclaiming through that brassy speakingtrumpet...old poverty. A man who was the Bully of humility." Hard Times, Book i, chap. 4. — Of Sampson Brass : " This Brass was an attorney of no very good repute,... | |
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