( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) Astounding evolutions they were, one rank firing over the heads ofanother rank, and then running away; and then the other rank firingover the heads of another rank, and running away in their turn; and thenforming squares, with officers in the centre; and then descending thetrench on one side with scaling-ladders, and ascending it on the otheragain by the same means; and knocking down barricades of baskets, andbehaving in the most gallant manner possible.
( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'Yes,' said the barrister's clerk, producing his own box, and offeringit with the greatest cordiality; 'and the best of it is, that as nobodyalive except myself can read the serjeant's writing, they are obliged towait for the opinions, when he has given them, till I have copied 'em,ha-ha-ha!Which makes good for we know who, besides the serjeant, and draws alittle more out of the clients, eh?' said Perker; 'ha, ha, ha!' At thisthe serjeant's clerk laughed again--not a noisy boisterous laugh, buta silent, internal chuckle, which Mr. Pickwick disliked to hear.
( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) Although an infant barrister, he was a full-grown man.
The occupants of this seat areinvisible to the great body of spectators, inasmuch as they sit on amuch lower level than either the barristers or the audience, whose seatsare raised above the floor.
Mr. Pickwick was on the point of inquiring, with great abhorrence of theman's cold-blooded villainy, how Mr. Serjeant Buzfuz, who was counselfor the opposite party, dared to presume to tell Mr. Serjeant Snubbin,who was counsel for him, that it was a fine morning, when he wasinterrupted by a general rising of the barristers, and a loud cry of'Silence!' from the officers of the court.
SHOWING HOW Mr. SAMUEL WELLER GOT INTO DIFFICULTIESIn a lofty room, ill-lighted and worse ventilated, situated in PortugalStreet, Lincoln's Inn Fields, there sit nearly the whole year round,one, two, three, or four gentlemen in wigs, as the case may be, withlittle writing-desks before them, constructed after the fashion of thoseused by the judges of the land, barring the French polish.
There isa box of barristers on their right hand; there is an enclosure ofinsolvent debtors on their left; and there is an inclined plane ofmost especially dirty faces in their front.
The very barristers' wigs are ill-powdered, and theircurls lack crispness.