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  • “More what, guardian?” said I. “More wiglomeration,” said he.

    Bleak House 2007

  • How mankind ever came to be afflicted with wiglomeration, or for whose sins these young people ever fell into

    Bleak House 2007

  • Chancery Lane — will have something to say about it; counsel will have something to say about it; the Chancellor will have something to say about it; the satellites will have something to say about it; they will all have to be handsomely feed, all round, about it; the whole thing will be vastly ceremonious, wordy, unsatisfactory, and expensive, and I call it, in general, wiglomeration.

    Bleak House 2007

  • Corinne to far too great an extent, and Oswald to an extent nearly but not quite fatal, are loaded (_affublés_, to use the word we borrowed formerly) with a mass of corporal and spiritual wiglomeration (as Mr. Carlyle used expressively and succinctly to call it) in costume and fashion and sentiment and action and speech.

    A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

  • Whereas, heaven knows that if I could get out of the mountains of wiglomeration on which my unfortunate name has been so long bestowed (which I can't) or could level them by the extinction of my own original right (which I can't either, and no human power ever can, anyhow, I believe, to such a pass have we got), I would do it this hour.

    Bleak House Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1853

  • Whereas, heaven knows that if I could get out of the mountains of wiglomeration on which my unfortunate name has been so long bestowed (which I can't) or could level them by the extinction of my own original right (which I can't either, and no human power ever can, anyhow, I believe, to such a pass have we got), I would do it this hour.

    Bleak House Charles Dickens 1841

  • There will be a world more wiglomeration about it, I suppose, but it must be done.”

    Bleak House 2007

  • Whereas, heaven knows that if I could get out of the mountains of wiglomeration on which my unfortunate name has been so long bestowed (which I can’t) or could level them by the extinction of my own original right (which I can’t either, and no human power ever can, anyhow, I believe, to such a pass have we got), I would do it this hour.

    Bleak House 2007

  • How mankind ever came to be afflicted with wiglomeration, or for whose sins these young people ever fell into a pit of it, I don't know; so it is. "

    Bleak House Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1853

  • There will be a world more wiglomeration about it, I suppose, but it must be done. "

    Bleak House Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1853

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