Dickens [adjective]

I study your language in your Dickens, in your Thackeray; at last I attain proficiency.

I never now see our young people, or their elders either, affected by an author as we were then by the power of Dickens.

She had expected to cry herself to sleep; instead she read Dickens with Mr. Hammerton until the new year was upon them.

One will not fully appreciate Chigwell and its inn unless he has read Dickens' story.

The bar-room, no doubt, is still much the same as on the stormy night which Dickens chose for the opening of his story.

And so here they stayed the night, much to their advantage, in a manner familiar to the readers of Dickens.

I recommend you to read this book; when one wants to read fiction it is best to begin with such an author as Dickens.

Very different in this respect is the device adopted by Dickens in one of the most entertaining of his romances.

Walk fast now till you get away from the houses, and then shin for the raft like the dickens was after you!

And not till yesterday could Guy Dickens report performance of the other important thing.