 | Charles Dickens - Christmas stories - 1845 - 196 pages
...it: and Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything ho chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Mind! I don't mean to...as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed B hands shall not disturb it, or... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1846 - 348 pages
...it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Mind! I don't mean to...as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or... | |
 | Charles Dickens - Christmas stories - 1846 - 306 pages
...signed it: and Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. OldMarley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say...door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-Bail as the deadest-piecs of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdsnxef our ancestors.is in... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1894 - 664 pages
...one even before Shakespeare's time ? It may be borne in mind that Dickens, when using it, said : " I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge,...as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade." J. STANDISH HALT. Temple. —The average age of the horse is said to be about twenty years ; but undoubtedly... | |
 | Charles Dickens - Christmas stories - 1854 - 546 pages
...it: and Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Mind ! I don't mean to...as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1884 - 804 pages
...it: and Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for any. thing he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Mind ! I don't mean to...as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile ; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1859 - 582 pages
...it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Mind ! I don't mean to...as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or... | |
 | Popular educator - 1860 - 424 pages
...good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nai). Mind I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge,...as the deadest piece of Ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile ; and my unhallowed hands Shall not disturb it; or... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1861 - 316 pages
...it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Mind ! I don't mean to...as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile ; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1861 - 408 pages
...upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Hind ! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge,...as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or... | |
| |
Old Marlcy was as dead as a DOOR-NAIL. "Mind ! I don't mean to say that I know of my own knowledge what there is particularly dead about a DOOR-NAIL. I might have been inclined myself to regard a COFFIN-NAIL as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the... 
