Hallways - Hallways

Was it the specialty of Mr. and Mrs. Lammle, or does it ever obtain with other loving couples? In these matrimonial dialogues they never addressed each other, but always some invisible presence that appeared to take a station about midway between them. Perhaps the skeleton in the cupboard comes out to be talked to, on such domestic occasions?

Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens

'My child is welcome, though unlooked for,' said she, presenting her cheek as if it were a cool slate for visitors to enroll themselves upon.

Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens

A bill is the most extraordinary locomotive engine that the genius of man ever produced. It would keep on running during the longest lifetime, without ever once stopping of its own accord.

The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens

There sat the interesting pair, uncared for by all, caring for none, and dreaming only of themselves; there they sat, in short, like a pair of carefully folded kid-gloves--bound up in each other.

The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens

Nothing can exceed [the soldiers'] good humor. It was but the day before my arrival that one of them had been most grossly insulted...The bar-maid had positively refused to draw him any more liquor; in return for which he had (merely in playfulness) drawn his bayonet, and wounded the girl in the shoulder. And yet this fine fellow was the first to go down next morning, and express his readiness to overlook the matter.

The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens