Sentence examples for dickens from inspiring English sources
noun
The devil.
- She can go to the dickens for what she said.
Tóibín and Catton hardly read Crace (or Shakespeare, Austen or Dickens) and feel that the riches of English are "his before they are mine".
"There are no laws prohibiting it and the permitting is pretty much the same as for a rodeo," said Dickens.
I feel about crazy paving much as Dickens evidently felt about the life Wemmick lived with his Aged P in Walworth, with his drawbridge and his castle and a tiny lake with an island in the middle "which might have been the salad for dinner".
But no: far too many of the voices that make up our culture have arrived at their own mixed-up version of the telescopic philanthropy Dickens sent up in Bleak House.
One of Hopcraft's lines in The Reporters, delivered by the grizzled hack (Robert Urquhart) to the tyro (Michael Kitchen) was, "All you need to know about journalism you can get from Dickens".
JOHN HOWARD DAVIES 1939- (UK) Big break: Oliver Twist (1948) A short life: At nine, he played Oliver in David Lean's classic Dickens adaptation.
It is a wonderful performance from Fiennes, though he might still justifiably be hoping for prizes for his own film as director-star, about Charles Dickens: The Invisible Woman.
Victorian society was appalled and Rae was denounced, with his chief persecutor, Charles Dickens, claiming that Rae had no right to believe "a race of savages".
In 1842, Charles Dickens found the city still a vast building site: "Leave a brickfield without the bricks in all the central places where a street might be expected; and that's Washington".
Raised on the novels of Charles Dickens, he was eager to sample the city's power and its squalor.
How horrible for the pupils at Professor Gradgrind's school; Charles Dickens pulled out all the grim stops in describing it.
