Bounderby

When Mr. Bounderby in "Hard Times," for example, tells stories about his supposed childhood poverty, he brags that as a boy the only pictures he possessed were "of a man shaving himself in a boot on the blacking bottles"—a brisk little nod to Dickens's youthful entombment at Mr. Warren's factory in the Strand.

Snapshots of 'Boz' D.J. Taylor 2011

‘By your visiting proposition,’ said Bounderby, with an inflexible jerk of the hayfield.

Hard Times 2002

I have always called old Bounderby by the same name when I have talked about him, and I have always thought of him in the same way.

Hard Times 2002

I am not going to begin to be polite now, about old Bounderby.

Hard Times 2002

Leaving old Bounderby to himself, and packing my best friend Mr. Harthouse off, and going home just when I was in the greatest danger.

Hard Times 2002

It was in vain for Bounderby to bluster or to assert himself in any of his explosive ways; Mrs. Sparsit was resolved to have compassion on him, as a Victim.

Hard Times 2002

‘Bounderby, I see reason to doubt whether we have ever quite understood Louisa.’

Hard Times 2002

‘Bounderby,’ said Mr. Gradgrind, ‘I hoped, after my entreaty, you would have taken a different tone.’

Hard Times 2002

I think there are — Bounderby, you will be surprised to hear me say this —

Hard Times 2002

‘What a comical brother – in – law old Bounderby is, I think you mean,’ said Tom.

Hard Times 2002