Pumblechook

While a World Cup scripted by Dickens would undoubtedly be entertaining if only for Mick McCarthy trying to get his lips around "Pumblechook", the spontaneity is what keeps us watching.

Archive 2010-06-01 Tim Stretton 2010

While a World Cup scripted by Dickens would undoubtedly be entertaining if only for Mick McCarthy trying to get his lips around "Pumblechook", the spontaneity is what keeps us watching.

:Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2010

I entertain a conviction, based upon large experience, that if in the days of my prosperity I had gone to the North Pole, I should have met somebody there, wandering Esquimaux or civilized man, who would have told me that Pumblechook was my earliest patron and the founder of my fortunes.

Great Expectations 2007

Of the conduct of the worldly minded Pumblechook while this was doing, I desire to say no more than it was all addressed to me; and that even when those noble passages were read which remind humanity how it brought nothing into the world and can take nothing out, and how it fleeth like a shadow and never continueth long in one stay,

Great Expectations 2007

In this progress I was much annoyed by the abject Pumblechook, who, being behind me, persisted all the way as a delicate attention in arranging my streaming hatband, and smoothing my cloak.

Great Expectations 2007

As we were going back together to London by the midday coach, and as I breakfasted under such terrors of Pumblechook that I could scarcely hold my cup, this gave me an opportunity of saying that I wanted a walk, and that I would go on along the London road while

Great Expectations 2007

Pumblechook himself, self – constituted my patron, would sit supervising me with a depreciatory eye, like the architect of my fortunes who thought himself engaged on a very unremunerative job.

Great Expectations 2007

That ass, Pumblechook, used often to come over of a night for the purpose of discussing my prospects with my sister; and I really do believe (to this hour with less penitence than I ought to feel), that if these hands could have taken a linchpin out of his chaise – cart, they would have done it.

Great Expectations 2007

Pumblechook, exactly as if I had that moment picked a pocket or fired a rick; indeed, it was the general impression in Court that I had been taken red – handed; for, as Pumblechook shoved me before him through the crowd, I heard some people say,

Great Expectations 2007

My sister looked at Pumblechook: who smoothed the elbows of his wooden arm – chair, and nodded at her and at the fire, as if he had known all about it beforehand.

Great Expectations 2007