"Madam," replied Mr. Micawber, "it is my intention to register such a vow on the virgin page of the future."

Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more.

And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.

The man who now confronted Gashford, was a squat, thickset personage, with a low, retreating forehead, a coarse shock head of hair, and eyes so small and near together, that his broken nose alone seemed to prevent their meeting and fusing into one of the usual size.

Oliver Twist has asked for more!

There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands.

The rippling of the river seemed to cause a correspondent stir in his uneasy reflections. He would have laid them asleep if he could, but they were in movement, like the stream, and all tending one way with a strong current.