“As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them, my first fancies regarding what they were like were unreasonably derived from their tombstones” (9).
“A man who had been soaked in water, and smothered in mud, and lamed by stones, and cut by flints, and stung by nettles, and torn by briars; who limped, and shivered, and glared, and growled; and whose teeth chattered in his head, as he seized me by the chin” (10).
“My sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery, was more than twenty years older than I, and had established a great reputation with herself and the neighbours because she had brought me up ‘by hand’” (14).
“Pitying his desolation, and watching him as he gradually settled down upon the pie, I made bold to say, ‘I …show more content…
“The fear of losing Joe’s confidence, and of thenceforth sitting in the chimney-corner at night, staring drearily at my for ever companion and friend, tied upon my tongue”
(49).
"With an alphabet on the hearth at my feet for reference, I contrived in an hour or two to print and smear this epistle: 'mI deEr JO i opE U r krWitE well i opE I shAl soN B haBelL 4 2 teeDge U JO aN theN wE shOrl b sO glOdd aN wEn i M preNgtD 2 u JO woT larX an blEvE ME inF xn PiP'” (54).
"We were equals afterwards, as we had been before; but, afterwards at quiet times when I sat looking at Joe and thinking about him, I had a new sensation of feeling conscious that I was looking up to Joe in my heart." (58).
"Her chest had dropped, so that she stooped; and her voice had dropped, so that she spoke low, and with a dead lull upon her; altogether, she had the appearance of having dropped, body and soul, within and without, under the weight of a crushing blow" (71).
“I drew away from the window, and sat down in my one chair by the bedside, feeling it very sorrowful and strange that this first night of my bright fortunes should be the loneliest I had ever known”
“A man who had been soaked in water, and smothered in mud, and lamed by stones, and cut by flints, and stung by nettles, and torn by briars; who limped, and shivered, and glared, and growled; and whose teeth chattered in his head, as he seized me by the chin” (10).
“My sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery, was more than twenty years older than I, and had established a great reputation with herself and the neighbours because she had brought me up ‘by hand’” (14).
“Pitying his desolation, and watching him as he gradually settled down upon the pie, I made bold to say, ‘I …show more content…
“The fear of losing Joe’s confidence, and of thenceforth sitting in the chimney-corner at night, staring drearily at my for ever companion and friend, tied upon my tongue”
(49).
"With an alphabet on the hearth at my feet for reference, I contrived in an hour or two to print and smear this epistle: 'mI deEr JO i opE U r krWitE well i opE I shAl soN B haBelL 4 2 teeDge U JO aN theN wE shOrl b sO glOdd aN wEn i M preNgtD 2 u JO woT larX an blEvE ME inF xn PiP'” (54).
"We were equals afterwards, as we had been before; but, afterwards at quiet times when I sat looking at Joe and thinking about him, I had a new sensation of feeling conscious that I was looking up to Joe in my heart." (58).
"Her chest had dropped, so that she stooped; and her voice had dropped, so that she spoke low, and with a dead lull upon her; altogether, she had the appearance of having dropped, body and soul, within and without, under the weight of a crushing blow" (71).
“I drew away from the window, and sat down in my one chair by the bedside, feeling it very sorrowful and strange that this first night of my bright fortunes should be the loneliest I had ever known”