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Title: Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
Subjects: Literature Allusions Fiction.
Publisher: New York,: E. Hess
Contributing Library: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries
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, but Mr. Barkis bloomed in a new blue coat, of which the tailor hadgiven him such good measure, that the cuffs would have rendered glovesunnecessary in the coldest weather, while the collar was so high that itpushed his hair up on end on top of his head. His bright buttons, too,were of the largest si^e. Rendered cofnpkte by drab pantaloons and abuff waistcoat, I thought Mr. Barkis a phenomenon of respe£lability. )Vl)en we were all in a bustle outside the door, I found that Mr. Peggottywas prepared with an old shoe, which was to be thrown after us for luck,and which he offered to Mrs. Gummidge for that purpose. No ! It had better be done by somebody else, Danl, said Mrs.Gummidge. Im a lone lorn creetur myself, and everything that remindsme of creeturs that aint lone and lorn goes contrairy with me. But here Peggotty called out from the cart in which we were all by thistime (Emly and I on two little chairs, side by side) that Mrs. Gummidgemust do it. Charles Dickens David Copperfield.
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BAENADINE 101 BARTHOLOMEW any mans persuasion.—Shakespeare, Baron (The old Englisli), a romance byMeasure for Measure. Clara Reeve (1777). Baraes (1 syl.), servant to colonel Man-nering, at Woodburne.—Sir W. Scott, GuyMannering (time, George II.). Barney, a repulsive Jew, wbo waitedon the customers at the low public-housefrequented by Fagin and his associates.Barney always spoke through his nose.—C. Dicken-s, Oliver Twist (1837). Barnstable (Lieutenant), in the Britishnavy, in love with Kate Plowden, niece ofcolonel Howard of New York. The alli-ance not being approved of, Kate is re-moved from England to America, butBarnstable goes to America to discoverher retreat. In this he succeeds, but beingseized as a spy, is commanded by colonelHoward to be hung to the yardarm ofan American frigate called the Alacrity.Scarcely is the young man led off, whenthe colonel is informed that Barnstable ishis own son, and he arrives at the scene ofexecution just in time to save him. Ofcourse afte

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