 Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors...  Notes and Queries - Page 3371894Full view - About this book
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 pages
...upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Mind ! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge,...doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a cof10 fin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1846 - 352 pages
...upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge,...as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1846 - 348 pages
...upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge,...as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1846 - 306 pages
...upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. OldMarley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge,...door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-mi! as the deadest -piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdaili.of our ancestors is... | |
 | 1894 - 664 pages
...more." Is the well-known adage taken from this, or was it a vulgar one even before Shakespeare's time 1 It may be borne in mind that Dickens, when using it,...ironmongery in the trade." J. STANDISH HALT. Temple. How LOSO WILL A HORSE Live Î (8th S. v. 248.) — The average age of the hone is said to be about... | |
 | 1919 - 424 pages
...WILLIAMS. " AS DEAD AS A DOOR-NAIL." — What is the origin of this expression ? Dickens considered " a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade." J. ABDAGH. FLEET PRISON RECORDS. — An ancestor of mine, Thomas Free, was committed to the Fleet for... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1884 - 804 pages
...'Change, for any. thing he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Mind ! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge,...as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile ; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1859 - 582 pages
...upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Mind ! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge,...as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile ; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 386 pages
...'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. 2. Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge,...as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile ; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 372 pages
...'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. 2. Mind ! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge,...as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile ; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or... | |
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