( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'He had not observed that a man was lying on the bank beside him; hisgarments rustled as he turned round to steal a look at the new-comer;and Edmunds raised his head.
( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'It IS matter of wonder, though, that anyone of Mr. Nathaniel Pipkin'sretiring disposition, nervous temperament, and most particularlydiminutive income, should from this day forth, have dared to aspire tothe hand and heart of the only daughter of the fiery old Lobbs--of oldLobbs, the great saddler, who could have bought up the whole villageat one stroke of his pen, and never felt the outlay--old Lobbs, who waswell known to have heaps of money, invested in the bank at the nearestmarket town--who was reported to have countless and inexhaustibletreasures hoarded up in the little iron safe with the big keyhole, overthe chimney-piece in the back parlour--and who, it was well known,on festive occasions garnished his board with a real silver teapot,cream-ewer, and sugar-basin, which he was wont, in the pride of hisheart, to boast should be his daughter's property when she found a manto her mind.
consolidated bank annuities, now standing in hername in the book or books of the governor and company of the Bank ofEngland,' added Bob Sawyer, in legal phraseology.
( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) As the elder Mr. Weller insisted on selling out his portion forthwith,they proceeded from the bank to the gate of the Stock Exchange, to whichWilkins Flasher, Esquire, after a short absence, returned with a chequeon Smith, Payne, & Smith, for five hundred and thirty pounds; thatbeing the money to which Mr. Weller, at the market price of the day, wasentitled, in consideration of the balance of the second Mrs.
The dead man was inevening-dress, and his long, black legs, so thin as to be almostspidery, were sprawling at different angles up the steep bank from whichhe had fallen.
"In talking to Mr. Imlack Smith, the bank manager, a slim and sallowgentleman of dressy appearance but quiet demeanour, he violentlywrenched the conversation to the subject of the gold standard, fromwhich it was merely a step to goldfish.
Itisn't only the Count, either; that man at the bank looks to me much tooyellow to be English.
On thefourth side was the bank, with an adjoining house for the bank manager,and a line offence enclosing some land that was let for building.