Sublime

Mr Smith, a sea-officer of the small, trim, brisk, round-headed, portwine kind, once shipmates with Stephen in the Lively and now second in the Goliath, rode by on a camel, with his legs folded negligently over the creature’s neck to the manner born:

‘Yes, yes, give me a coroner who is a good coursing man,’ said Mr Vincy, jovially.

Quite a strange man, thought James, watching him go – but what a relief to discover he still contained the capacity to be taken by surprise.

Stephen looked sharply round, saw the decanter, smelt the sloth, and cried, ‘Jack, you have debauched my sloth.’

Bernard had been a professor, something in science, and had worked all around the world,

Mr. Foote has a talent for conjuring up such images. He has a graphic way of speaking, being from Newfoundland. He doesn’t tiptoe around. He’s built on a square plan: wide torso, thick legs, a short distance between ear and shoulder. It’s a balanced shape, with a low centre of gravity. Mr. Foote would not be easy to upend. Nell expects that’s been

Lydgate was no Puritan, but he did not care to play, and winning money at it had always seemed a meanness to him; besides, he had an ideal of life which made this subservience of conduct to the gaining of small sums thoroughly hateful to him. Hitherto in his own life his wants had been supplied without any trouble to himself, and his first impulse

a man like Mr. Peggotty was not a bad person to have on board if anything did happen. Nothing happened, however, worse than morning.

He was but a poor man himself, said Peggotty, but as good as gold and as true as steel—those were her similes.