Author's daughter becomes ill, not son

Usage examples of dickens.

Charles Dickens, famed inventor of Christmas ghosts and Tiny Tim, when visiting Rome in 1845 chose to broaden his experience of the world by witnessing the beheading of a criminal.

Although the Dickens desk in it was small, Cullum had to sidle his way around it.

I asked him what in the dickens was he doing this far north at Christmastime with nothing on but ventilated sneaks and kneeless jeans and a Sunset Strip pink pearl-button shirt?

David Lean, Ronald Neame, Anthony Havelock-Allan, Cecil McGivern, Kay Walsh, from the novel by Charles Dickens - Dir.

When he had finally plodded into Padang, ninety minutes ago, after a fruitless search along the river bank for Dickens, he had felt half-dead.

Then I got back to Padang myself as quickly as possible, meeting up with Stobart and Dickens.

Annie had to call back to Dickens, obviously mortified, because Grady was still on the move, still with one thought in mind, that of getting out of Peevers Mansion before he started babbling like the idiot he thought he was.

Dickens, who buttled for a hobby, with grand larceny and art forgery his real vocations.

But let it be granted that Dickens the humourist is foremost and most precious.

Lorry and Miss Pross are shown to be softening under the good influence of Lucie and her family, so that by the third part they are no longer stereotypes of an old England of which Dickens is critical.

Victor Hugo, Mazzini, Dickens, Baudelaire, and Theophile Gautier might have added one to the great generosities of the world.

I asked him what in the dickens was he doing this far north at Christmastime with nothing on but ventilated sneaks and kneeless jeans and a Sunset Strip pink pearl-button shirt?

Of course, Shakespeare had his clowns and Dickens had his Sam Wellers, and in both cases, dialog was used that mangled the English language to some extent--but that was intended as humor.

Chemical substances and commodities, like the conspiracies, and like the dustheaps in Dickens, embody the moral defects of the society that produces them.

Is the fastidious, the impartial, the non-moral novelist only the grandchild, and not the remote posterity, of Dickens, who would not leave Scrooge to his egoism, or Gradgrind to his facts, or Mercy Pecksniff to her absurdity, or Dombey to his pride?