Perker's

Perker's art is beautiful, giving us a very good sense of the city and its environs and also giving us characters who look like actual human beings from different cultures.

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A little later when Mr. Pickwick hunts up Perker's clerk Lowten, and joins the jovial circle at the Magpie and Stump, he finds on his right hand "a gentleman in a checked shirt and Mosaic studs, with a cigar in his mouth," who expresses the hope that the newcomer does not "find this sort of thing disagreeable."

The Social History of Smoking George Latimer Apperson 1897

Perker's dress is also that of the stage attorney, as we have him now, and recognize him.

Pickwickian Manners and Customs Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald 1879

Such as Perker's eyes, which are described as playing with his "inquisitive nose" a "perpetual game of" -- what, think you?

Pickwickian Manners and Customs Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald 1879

Perker's diplomacy was wretched, and his plea about the age of the old lady mere burlesque.

Pickwickian Studies Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald 1879

Perker's face and attitude are altered in _b_, where he is made more interrogative.

Pickwickian Manners and Customs Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald 1879

(Imagine a modern solicitor's clerk "Taking a grinder!") 'No, no, Mr. Pickwick,' said Jackson, in conclusion; 'Perker's people must guess what we served these subpoenas for.

Bardell v. Pickwick Charles Dickens 1841

At Perker's dinner the gentlemen had gone up to the drawing room, when Perker was called down to hear the news of Mrs. Bardell's arrest.

Bardell v. Pickwick Charles Dickens 1841

Perker's plan of campaign as announced to Mr. Pickwick, was a poor one enough, and showed how desperate he thought the case was.

Bardell v. Pickwick Charles Dickens 1841

At the last interview, at Perker's, when the costs were paid, one might have expected Mr. Pickwick to behave with a certain disdainful dignity.

Bardell v. Pickwick Charles Dickens 1841