 Indeed, as he eagerly sparkled at them from the cellarage before mentioned, he seemed a kind of cannon loaded to the muzzle with facts, and prepared to blow them clean out of the regions of childhood at one discharge. He seemed a galvanizing apparatus,...  Hard Times: For These Times ~ Paperbound - Page 4Limited preview - About this book
 | American literature - 1865 - 820 pages
...to the brim. '"Girl number twenty,' said Mr. Gradgrind, squarely pointing with his square finger. ' I don't know that girl. -Who is that girl?' " ' Sissy Jupe, sir,' exclaimed No. 20, blushing, standing up, and curtseying. " ' Sissy is not a name,' said Mr. Gradgrind.... | |
 | English literature - 1854 - 634 pages
...childhood at one discharge. He seemed a galvanising apparatus, too, charged with a grim mechanical substitute for the tender young imaginations that were to be stormed away. " G iii number twenty," said Mr. Gradgrind, squarely pointing with his square forefinger, " I don't... | |
 | Charles Dickens - England - 1854 - 302 pages
...childhood at one discharge. He seemed a galvanizing apparatus, too, charged with a grim mechanical substitute for the tender young imaginations that...forefinger, " I don't know that girl. Who is that girl?1; " Sissy Jupe, sir," explained number twenty, blushing, standing up, and courtesying. " Sissy... | |
 | Charles Dickens - English fiction - 1868 - 604 pages
...childhood at one discharge. He seemed a galvanizing apparatus, too, charged with a grim mechanical substitute for the tender young imaginations that...forefinger, " I don't know that girl. Who is that girl У "Sissy Jupe, sir," explained number twenty, blushing, standing up, and curtseying. " Sissy is not... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1870 - 354 pages
...childhood at one discharge. He seemed a galvanizing apparatus, too, charged with a grim mechanical substitute for the tender young imaginations that...stormed away. " Girl number twenty," said Mr. Gradgrind, squarelj pointing with his square forefinger, " I don't know that girl. Who is that girl ? " " Sissy... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1873 - 584 pages
...childhood at one discharge. He seemed a galvanizing apparatus, too, charged with a grim mechanical substitute for the tender young imaginations that were to be stormed away. — Hard Times, Boot /., Chap. 2. FACTS — Gradgrind's lesson* of. Mr. Gradgrind walked homeward from... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1880 - 868 pages
...childhood at one discharge. He seemed a galvanizing apparatus, too, charged with a grim mechanical substitute for the tender young imaginations that...to be stormed away. " Girl number twenty," said Mr. Graclgrind, squarely pointing with his square forefinger, " 1 don't know that girl. Who is that girl... | |
 | William Swinton - Readers - 1883 - 504 pages
...or Joseph Gradgrind, but into the head of Thomas Gradgrind — no, sir! FIFTH READER, •• - - 5. "Girl number twenty," said Mr. Gradgrind, squarely...explained number twenty, blushing, standing up, and courtesying. "Father calls me Sissy, sir," returned the young girl in a trembling voice, and with another... | |
 | William Swinton - 1883 - 492 pages
...Gradgrind, or Joseph Gradgrind, but into the head of Thomas Gradgrind — no, sir! FIFTH READER. 5. "Girl number twenty," said Mr. Gradgrind, squarely...explained number twenty, blushing, standing up, and courtesying. "Father calls me Sissy, sir," returned the young girl in a trembling voice, and with another... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1883 - 842 pages
...childhood at one discharge. He seemed a galvanising apparatus, too, charged with a grim mechanical substitute for the tender young imaginations that...said Mr. Gradgrind, squarely pointing with his square foiefinger, "I don't know that girl. Who is that girl ? " " Sissy Jupe, sir," explained number twenty,... | |
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