"Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls def…"

"Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man a…"

"This is the Court of Chancery, which has its decaying houses and its blighted lands in every shire, which has its wor…"

"It is not a large world. Relatively even to this world of ours, which has its limits too (as your Highness shall find…"

"He is a gentleman of strict conscience, disdainful of all littleness and meanness and ready on the shortest notice to…"

"I asked him whether there was a great fire anywhere? For the streets were so full of dense brown smoke that scarcely …"

"“I expect a judgment. Shortly.”"

"“She means well,” said Mr. Jarndyce hastily. “The wind’s in the east.” “It was in the north, sir, as we came down,” o…"

"“It is said that the children of the very poor are not brought up, but dragged up.”"

"London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacable November weath…"