The weathercocks on spires and housetops were mysterious with hints of stormy wind, and pointed, like so many ghostly fingers, out to dangerous seas…. – Charles Dickens
Take example by your father, my boy, and be very careful of vidders all your life, specially if theyve kept a public house, Sammy. – Charles Dickens
They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat. – Charles Dickens
All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them. – Charles Dickens
The heavy rain beat down the tender branches of vine and jessamine, and trampled on them in its fury; and when the lightning gleamed, it showed the tearful leaves shivering and cowering together at the window, and tapping at it urgently, as if beseeching to be sheltered from the dismal night. – Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, Chapter XLIII