Chivery

His door was opened, and the head of the elder Chivery was put in a very little way, without being turned towards him.

Little Dorrit 2007

‘How vexation, Chivery?’ asked the benignant father.

Little Dorrit 2007

There never was a Chivery a gentleman that ever I heard of, and I will not commit the meanness of making a false representation on a subject so momentous.

Little Dorrit 2007

Chivery when he had returned his handkerchief to his pocket, that he did all honour to his disinterestedness and to the fidelity of his remembrance of Miss Dorrit.

Little Dorrit 2007

Years agone, when the object of his affections was wont to sit in her little arm – chair by the high Lodge – fender, Young John (family name, Chivery), a year older than herself, had eyed her with admiring wonder.

Little Dorrit 2007

Chivery (whose epitaphs you ignore whilst quoting Mrs. Sapsea's) would have gone barefoot through the prison against rules for little

Gilbert Keith Chesterton Maisie Ward 1932

Chivery shook her head again, put her apron in a motherly way to her eyes, and reconducted her visitor into the regions of the business.

Little Dorrit Charles Dickens 1841

His door was opened, and the head of the elder Chivery was put in a very little way, without being turned towards him.

Little Dorrit Charles Dickens 1841

'How vexation, Chivery?' asked the benignant father.

Little Dorrit Charles Dickens 1841

Chivery and his brother officers; 'whom he had beforehand presented with ten pounds each, and who were all in attendance.

Little Dorrit Charles Dickens 1841