 People can't die, along the coast,' said Mr. Peggotty, 'except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in - not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide.  The Medical World - Page 1931907Full view - About this book
 | Gilbert Ashville Pierce, William Adolphus Wheeler - 1872 - 652 pages
...me, behind his hand. My eyes were dim, and so were Mr. Peggotty's ; but I repeated in a whisper, " With the tide ?" " People can't die along the coast." said Mr. Peggotty, " except when the tide 's pretty nigh out. They can't be born unless it 's pretty nigh in, — not • properly born,... | |
 | John Glyde - 1872 - 526 pages
...flickerings by the bedside of poor Barkis, he said to David Copperfield, " People can't die along the coast, except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born unless it's pretty nigh in — not properly born till flood. He's agoing out with the tide — he's agoing... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1873 - 584 pages
...me, behind his hand. My eyes were dim, and so were Mr. Peggotty's ; but I repeated in a whisper, " outh boatmen having put off in a gale of wind with...the nautical case the advocate in the clergyman's ca a going out with the tide. It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half-an-hour. If he lives 'till... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1878 - 564 pages
...Peggotty's ; bat I repeated in a •whisper, "With the tide?" " People can't die, along the coast," mid Mr. Peggotty, "except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in — not properly born, till flood. He 'sa going out with the tide. It's ebb at... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1879 - 376 pages
..." " People can't die, along the coast," eaid Mr. Peggotty, "except when the ode's pretty nigh oat. They can't be born, unless its pretty nigh in — not properly born, till flood. He's a going ont with the tide. It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half-an-hour. If he lives 'till... | |
 | William Henderson - 1879 - 424 pages
...Peggotty explained to David Copperfield by poor Barkis's bedside, " People can't die along the coast except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born unless it's pretty nigh in — not properly born till flood. He's agoing out with the tide — he's agoing... | |
 | William George Black - 1883 - 250 pages
...Civilisation, pp. 317-318. A " My eyes were dim, and so were Mr. Peggotty's ; but I repeated in a whisper, ' With the tide ?' " ' People can't die, along the coast,'...tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in — not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide. It's ebb at... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1883 - 666 pages
...me, behind his hand. My eyes were dim, and so were Mr. Peggotty's ; but I repeated in a whisper, " With the tide?" " People can't die, along the coast,"...Mr. Peggotty, " except when the tide's pretty nigh put. They can't be born, unless its pretty nigh in—not properly born, till flood. He's a going out... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1884 - 890 pages
...me, behind his hand. My eyes were dim, and so were Mr. Peggotty's ; but I repeated in a whisper, " With the tide ? " " People can't die, along the coast,"...tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in — not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide. It's ebb at... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer - 1884 - 580 pages
...Peggotty explained to David Copperfield, by poor Barkis's bedside, that " people can't die along the coast except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born unless it's pretty nigh in — not properly born till flood. He's a-going out with the tide — he's a-going... | |
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