Charles Dickens Quotes About Copper

• Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. That was the pudding.

  Charles Dickens

  Food, Doors, Smell

  Charles Dickens (2011). “A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories”, p.54, Penguin

• ... as lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on.

  Charles Dickens

  Loneliness, House, Kitten

  Charles Dickens (1850). “Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People ; with a Frontispiece by George Cruikshank”, p.16

• It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous heaps of copper that had been heated in a furnace, and were growing cold.

  Charles Dickens

  Dark, Clouds, Light

  Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.456

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