kind of legs, which in such costume, always look in an unfinished and incomplete state without a set of fetters to garnish them. He had a brown hat on his head, and a dirty belcher handkerchief round his neck : with the long frayed ends of which, he smeared... The Adventures of Oliver Twist - Page 71by Charles Dickens - 1858 - 438 pagesFull view - About this book
| Charles Dickens - English fiction - 1899 - 318 pages
...stockings, which inclosed a very bulky pair of legs, with large swelling calves ;—the kind of legs, that in such costume, always look in an unfinished and...frayed ends of which he smeared the beer from his face as he spoke; disclosing, when he had done so, a broad heavy countenance with a beard of three... | |
| Alexander John Philip - Characters and characteristics in literature - 1909 - 454 pages
...boots, and grey cotton stockings, which inclosed a bulky pair of legs, with large swelling calves. He had a brown hat on his head, and a dirty belcher handkerchief round his neck. Note.—Sikes with his mistress Nancy are the two figures which do most to carry out Dickens' object... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1914 - 428 pages
...and grey cotton stockings, which inclosed a bulky pair of legs, with large swelling calves ;—the kind of legs, which in such costume, always look in...frayed ends of which he smeared the beer from his face as he spoke. He disclosed, when he had done so, a broad heavy countenance with a beard of three... | |
| Rollo Walter Brown, Nathaniel Waring Barnes - English language - 1913 - 396 pages
...which inclosed a very bulky pair of legs, with large swelling calves; the kind of legs, that in such a costume, always look in an unfinished and incomplete...frayed ends of which he smeared the beer from his face as he spoke; disclosing, when he had done so, a broad heavy countenance with a beard of three... | |
| Rollo Walter Brown, Nathaniel Waring Barnes - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1913 - 400 pages
...which inclosed a very bulky pair of legs, with large swelling calves; the kind of legs, that in such a costume, always look in an unfinished and incomplete...frayed ends of which he smeared the beer from his face as he spoke; disclosing, when he had done so, a broad heavy countenance with a beard of three... | |
| Thomas Alexander Fyfe - Characters and characteristics in literature - 1913 - 364 pages
...boots, and grey cotton stockings, which inclosed a bulky pair of legs with large swelling calves; the kind of legs which, in such costume, always look in...state, without a set of fetters to garnish them." —Oliver Twist. Silverman. George.—A child of poor parents.—" My parents were in a miserable condition... | |
| Richard L. Stein - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 361 pages
...visible in Cruikshank's illustrations: a three-days' growth of beard, "scowling eyes," a brown hat, a "dirty belcher handkerchief round his neck; with...frayed ends of which he smeared the beer from his face as he spoke." Details of this sort belong to the caricatured ruffian, the sort one might find... | |
| Mildred Newcomb - Imagination in literature - 1989 - 263 pages
...stockings, which enclosed a very bulky pair of legs, with large swelling calves; the kind of legs, that in such costume, always look in an unfinished and incomplete state without a set of letters to garnish them. He had a brown hat on his head, and a dirty belcher handkerchief round his... | |
| Editors of REA, Alex Phillips - Study Aids - 2013 - 484 pages
...boots, and grey cotton stockings, which inclosed a bulky pair of legs, with large swelling calves. He had a brown hat on his head, and a dirty belcher handkerchief round his neck. Note.—Sikes with his mistress Nancy are the two figures which do most to carry out Dickens' object... | |
| Characters and characteristics in literature - 2003 - 357 pages
...boots, and grey cotton stockings, which inclosed a bulky pair of legs with large swelling calves; the kind of legs which, in such costume, always look in...state, without a set of fetters to garnish them.” —Oliver Twist. Silver Store.—A small British Colony on an island in the West Indies.—” It had... | |
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