 ... Of course," said Mr. Dombey, and sat looking at one page for an hour afterwards, without reading one word. This celebrated Mrs. Pipchin was a marvellous ill-favoured, ill-conditioned old lady, of a stooping figure, with a mottled face, like bad marble,...  Dombey and Son - Page 111by Charles Dickens - 1848 - 624 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Dickens - 1847 - 364 pages
...stooping figure, with a mottled face, like bad marble, a hook nose, and a hard grey eye, that looked as if it might have been hammered at on an anvil without...Pipchin; but his relict still wore black bombazeen, of suoh a lustreless, deep, dead, sombre shade, that gas itself couldn't light her up after dark, and... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1847 - 368 pages
...stooping figure, with a mottled face, like had marble, a hook nose, and a hard grey eye, that looked as if it might have been hammered at on an anvil without...of Mr. Pipchin; but his relict still •wore black homhazeen, of such a lustreless, deep, dead, sombre shade, that gas itself couldn't light her up after... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1919 - 424 pages
...stooping figure, with a mottled face, like bad marble, a hook nose, and a hard grey eye, that looked as if. it might have been hammered at on an anvil without sustaining any injury." How can these descriptions be reconciled Î JJ FREEMAN. Shepperton, SO GEORGE POWELL, THE DRAMATIST.... | |
 | Charles Dickens - English fiction - 1860 - 196 pages
...stooping figure, with a mottled face, like bad marble, a hook-nose, and a hard gray eye, that looked as if it might have been hammered at on an anvil without...lustreless, deep, dead, sombre shade, that gas itself could n't light her up after dark, and her presence was a quencher to any number of candles. She was... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1858 - 138 pages
...stooping figure, with a mottled face, like bad marble, a hook nose, and a hard grey eye, that looked as if it might have been hammered at on an anvil without...Pipchin; but his relict still wore black bombazeen. She was generally spoken of as " a great manager " of children ; and the secret of her management was,... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1867 - 576 pages
...hook nose, and a hard grey eye, that looked as if it might have been hammered at on an anvil withojt sustaining any injury. Forty years at least had elapsed...dead, sombre shade, that gas itself couldn't light her np after dark, and her presence was a quencher to any number of candles. She was generally spoken of... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1868 - 410 pages
...marble, a hook nose, and a hard gray eye, that looked as if it might have been hammered at on an anvil. Forty years at least had elapsed since the Peruvian...death of Mr. Pipchin ; but his relict still wore black bombazine. And she was such a bitter old lady that one was tempted to believe there had been some mistake... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1871 - 500 pages
...stooping figure, with a mottled face, like bad marble, a hook nose, and a hard grey eye, that looked as if it might have been hammered at on an anvil without...death of Mr. Pipchin ; but his relict still wore black bombazine, of such a lustreless, deep, dead, sombre shade, that gas itself couldn't light her up after... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1872 - 368 pages
...stooping figure, with n mottled face, like bad marble, a hook nose, and a hard gray eye, that looked us if it might have been hammered at on an anvil without...death of Mr. Pipchin ; but his relict still wore black bombazine, of such a lustreless, deep, dead, sombre shade, that gas itself couldn't light her up after... | |
 | Gilbert Ashville Pierce, William Adolphus Wheeler - Literary Criticism - 1872 - 652 pages
...marble, a hook nose, and a hard gray eye, that looked as if it might have been hammered at on au anvil. Forty years, at least, had elapsed since the Peruvian...death of Mr. Pipchin; but his relict still wore black bombazine. And she was such a bitter old lady, that one was tempted to believe there had been some... | |
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