Charles Dickens Quotes About Flying

• The wind is rushing after us, and the clouds are flying after us, and the moon is plunging after us, and the whole wild night is in pursuit of us; but, so far we are pursued by nothing else.

  Charles Dickens

  Moon, Night, Clouds

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.7065, Delphi Classics

• The clouds were flying fast, the wind was coming up in gusts, banging some neighboring shutters that had broken loose, twirling the rusty chimney-cowls and weathercocks, and rushing round and round a confined adjacent churchyard as if it had a mind to blow the dead citizens out of their graves. The low thunder, muttering in all quarters of the sky at once, seemed to threaten vengeance for this attempted desecration, and to mutter, "Let them rest! Let them rest!

  Charles Dickens

  Blow, Clouds, Wind

  CHARLES DICKENS (1873). “LITTLE DORRIT”, p.153

• The aim of talk should be like the aim of a flying arrow -- to hit the mark; but to this end there must be a mark to hit, that is, there must be a listener.

  Charles Dickens

  Arrows, Flying, Listening

  charles dickens (1874). “all the year round”, p.179

• Troubles are exceedingly gregarious in their nature, and flying in flocks are apt to perch capriciously.

  Charles Dickens

  Flying, Trouble, Flocks

  Charles Dickens (1849). “Barnaby Rudge ... With a frontispiece drawn by Hablot Knight Browne, etc”, p.145

• It was a murky confusion — here and there blotted with a color like the color of the smoke from damp fuel — of flying clouds tossed up into most remarkable heaps, suggesting greater heights in the clouds than there were depths below them to the bottom of the deepest hollows in the earth, through which the wild moon seemed to plunge headlong, as if, in a dread disturbance of the laws of nature, she had lost her way and were frightened.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Moon, Clouds

  Charles Dickens (1850). “The Personal History of David Copperfield0: In Three Volumes”, p.265

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