Quotes of 100 Common words from Classic

Micawber and their family were going away from London, and that a parting between us was near at hand.

Next morning I met the whole family at the coach office, and saw them, with a desolate heart, take their places outside, at the back.

I had barely time to get down again before the coach started, and I could hardly see the family for the handkerchiefs they waved.

I complain that you really are a little unnatural towards your own family; and, as it is of no use complaining to you.

To borrow, of that branch of my family, the money to return to London, and to return at any sacrifice.

After which she gently chid her daughter Annie, for not being more demonstrative when such kindnesses were showered, for her sake, on her old playfellow; and entertained us with some particulars concerning other deserving members of her family, whom it was desirable to set on their deserving legs.

I belong to a family remarkable, I believe, for some firmness; and I am not the creature of circumstance or change.

Family circumstances are a sufficient reason for our only meeting on that footing, and it is quite unnecessary that either of us should make the other the subject of remark.

No company, a walk, a family dinner of four, and an evening of looking over books and pictures; Miss Murdstone with a homily before her, and her eye upon us, keeping guard vigilantly.

It was wonderful to see his face shining at us out of a thin cloud of these delicate fumes, as he stirred, and mixed, and tasted, and looked as if he were making, instead of punch, a fortune for his family down to the latest posterity.

We have turned our attention to that experiment, on the suggestion of my family, and we find it fallacious.

Glancing round as I made a suitable reply, I observed that the family effects were already packed, and that the amount of luggage was by no means overwhelming.

You are bound, in justice to your family, if not to yourself, to take in at a comprehensive glance the extremest point in the horizon to which your abilities may lead you.

It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family.

You see, Sophy being of so much use in the family, none of them could endure the thought of her ever being married.

It had set me thinking a good deal at the time, as I have mentioned in its place; but my absorption in my own affairs, my experience of the family, and my hearing nothing more, had gradually ended in my dismissing the subject.