 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
 | Roger D. Sell - 2001 - 448 pàgines
...force. A big, loud man, with a stare, and a metallic laugh. A man made out of a coarse material — A man with a great puffed head and forehead, swelled veins in his temples .... A man with a pervading appearance on him of being inflated like a balloon, and ready to start.27... | |
 | Jill Baker, Clare Constant, David Kitchen - 2002 - 200 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 voice of his, his old ignorance and... | |
 | Ray Barker, Christine Moorcroft - 2002 - 76 pàgines
...laugh. A man made out of a coarse material, which seemed to have been stretched to make 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 his brassy speaking trumpet of a voice of his, his old ignorance... | |
 | Jerome Meckier - 2002 - 324 pàgines
...with China mainly for tea. 10. Bounderby gets excited only from the neck up; Dickens notes Bounderby's "great puffed head and forehead, swelled veins in...seemed to hold his eyes open, and lift his eyebrows up" (HT, 17). 11. See HR, 49-92, wherein Gaskell's industrial novel, North and South, is construed as a... | |
 | Alan Palmer - 2004 - 300 pàgines
...was a rich man: banker, merchant, manufacturer, and what not. [Then a description of his appearance.] A man who could never 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 - 2004 - 1354 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... | |
 | John Lithgow - 2005 - 260 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...appearance on him of being inflated like a balloon, ready to start. Or the inimitable Veneerings from Our Mutual Friend, the ladder-climbing newly rich... | |
 | Sally Ledger - 2007 - 19 pàgines
...creation of the hyperbolically evil Bounderby: 'A big, loud man, with a stare and a metallic laugh ... A man with a great puffed head and forehead, swelled veins in his temples ... A man who could never sufficiently vaunt himself a self-made man' (p. 20). Once again, Dickens's... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1887 - 604 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... | |
 | 1982 - 512 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... | |
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