NEWSPAPER in Classic Quotes

1  I could have posted a newspaper in his mouth, he made it so wide after saying this.

Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVI

2  "Give me," said Joe, "a good book, or a good newspaper, and sit me down afore a good fire, and I ask no better."

Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII

3  There was a group assembled round the fire at the Three Jolly Bargemen, attentive to Mr. Wopsle as he read the newspaper aloud.

Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII

4  I had first seen him when I sent for him to lay this place waste for me; having read of him in the newspapers, before I and the world parted.

Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIX

5  Here, we found a gentleman with one eye, in a velveteen suit and knee-breeches, who wiped his nose with his sleeve on being interrupted in the perusal of the newspaper.

Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XX

6  As he wanted the candles close to him, and as he was always on the verge of putting either his head or the newspaper into them, he required as much watching as a powder-mill.

Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII

7  Not long before, I had read in the newspapers, how a gentleman unknown had come to the Hummums in the night, and had gone to bed, and had destroyed himself, and had been found in the morning weltering in blood.

Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLV

8  Pretending to read a smeary newspaper long out of date, which had nothing half so legible in its local news, as the foreign matter of coffee, pickles, fish sauces, gravy, melted butter, and wine with which it was sprinkled all over, as if it had taken the measles in a highly irregular form, I sat at my table while he stood before the fire.

Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIII