 He was a rich man : banker, merchant, manufacturer, and what not. A big, loud man, with a stare, and a metallic laugh. A man made out of a coarse material, which seemed to have been stretched to make so much of him. A man with a great puffed head and...  Hard Times: A Novel - Pàgina 25per Charles Dickens - 1854 - 101 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Hendrik Poutsma - 1926 - 912 pàgines
...grave faults in our legal system, become swollen out of all proportion. E n g. Rev., No. 104, 64. ** A man with a great puffed head and forehead, swelled veins in his temples. DICK., Hard T imes, Ch. IV, 7 a. The cheeks were swelled and bloated. LYTTON, Pomp., II, Ch. I, 38... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1908 - 812 pàgines
...aud_a_metallic,laugh. A man made out of a coarse material, which seemed to have been stretched to make so much of him. A man with a great puffed head and forehead, swelled...sufficiently vaunt himself a self-made man. A man who was always proclaiming, through that brassy speakingtrumpet of a voice of his, his old ignorance... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1868 - 498 pàgines
...laugh. A man made out of a coarse material, which seemed to have been stretched to make so much of him. A man with a great puffed head and forehead, swelled...sufficiently vaunt himself a self-made man. A man who was always proclaiming, through that brassy speaking- trumpet of a voice of his, his old ignorance... | |
 | Willi Stumpf - 1910 - 74 pàgines
...with a great puffed head and forehead, swelled veius in bis temples, and such a strained skin to Ms face that it seemed to hold his eyes open, and lift his eyebrows up; a man with a pervading appearauce on him of being inflated like a balloon, and ready to start; a man who could never sufficiently... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1914 - 548 pàgines
...devoid of senlijnent. So near was Mr. Bounderby — or, if the readeTshould prefer it, so far off. up. A man with a pervading appearance on him of being...sufficiently vaunt himself a self-made man. A man who was always proclaiming, through that brassy speaking-trumpet of a voice of his, his old ignorance... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1926 - 1078 pàgines
...laugh. A man made out of a coarse material, which seemed to have been stretched to make so much of him. A man with a great puffed head and forehead, swelled...eyebrows up. A man with a pervading appearance on him of beiug inflated like a balloon, and ready to start. A man who could never sufficiently vaunt himself... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1927 - 396 pàgines
...coarse material, which seemed T6~fia~ve been stretched to make so much of him. A man with a great purled head and forehead, swelled veins in his temples, and...A man who could never sufficiently vaunt himself a self -jmjuie. man"." / A man who was always proclaiming, through that brassy speaking-trumpet of a... | |
 | Alexander John Philip, W. Laurence Gadd - 1928 - 428 pàgines
...iv. A big loud man, with a stare, and a metallic laugh. A man made out of coarse material — with great puffed head and forehead, swelled veins in his temples, and such a strained skir. to his face, that it seemed to hold his eyes open. Seven or eight and fo1ty Note. — Close friend... | |
 | 1866 - 796 pàgines
...laugh. A man made out of coarse material, which seemed to have been stretched to make so much of him. A man with a great puffed head and forehead, swelled...sufficiently vaunt himself a self-made man. A man who was continually proclaiming, through that brassy speaking-trumpet of a voice of his, his old ignorance... | |
 | François Crouzet - 1985 - 248 pàgines
...their humble origins. Mr Bounderby 'was a rich man: banker, merchant, manufacturer, and what not ... A man who could never sufficiently vaunt himself a self-made man. A man who was always proclaiming ... his old ignorance and his old poverty. A man who was the Bully of humility'.... | |
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