Wilkins Micawber

Hillary is like Dickens 'Wilkins Micawber, always hoping, certain that "something will turn up."

Clinton: I'm In Until Denver 2009

Wilkins Micawber — that was the boy — and a doll for little

David Copperfield 2007

Sometimes that past, even its fictions-Hamlet, Anne Elliott, Wilkins Micawber, Vidal Benzaguen-felt closer to her than the world she lived in.

Genesis ANDERSON, Poul 2000

For those who know Wilkins Micawber it is needless to describe the failings of Mr. Dickens; for others we may be content to say that he was kindhearted, sanguine and improvident, quite incapable of the steady industry needed to support a growing family.

Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore

Their manager they knew to be a man of action -- a species of Oscar Hammerstein in embryo, with a blending of Wilkins Micawber and Mulberry Sellers mixed in.

A Pirate of Parts Richard Neville

However, I have no doubt that when Wilkins Micawber junior grew up and became eminent in Australia, references were made to his narrow puritan home; so I do not complain.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton Maisie Ward 1932

I had bought a spotted wooden horse over-night as a parting gift to little Wilkins Micawber - that was the boy - and a doll for little Emma.

David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

The signatures to this instrument purporting to be executed by Mr.W. and attested by Wilkins Micawber, are forgeries by - HEEP.

David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

If he says yes, and asks you where the ashes are, refer him to Wilkins Micawber, and he will hear of something not at all to his advantage! '

David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

America would have lived and danced before us like Pickwick's England, a fairyland of happy lunatics and lovable monsters, and we might still have sympathised as much with the rhetoric of Lafayette Kettle as with the rhetoric of Wilkins Micawber, or with the violence of Chollop as with the violence of Boythorn.

What I Saw in America 1905