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" 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 193
1907
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Shepp's Giant Library: Eight Great Books in a Single Volume, an Unrivalled ...

Daniel B. Shepp - 1897 - 542 pages
...Spenlow to distraction ! On my next visit to Yarmouth, I found my old friend Barkis rapidly sinking. "People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, "except when the MR. MICAWBER tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in — not properly...
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The American Journal of Psychology, Volume 10

Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener, Karl M. Dallenbach, Madison Bentley, Edwin Garrigues Boring, Margaret Floy Washburn - 1899 - 640 pages
...Barkis. " People can't die along the coast," said Mr. Peggoty, ' except when the tide's pretty near out. They can't be born unless its pretty nigh in — not properly born, till flood. He's a goin' out with the tide. Its ebb at half arter three, slack water half-an-hour. If he lives till...
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Hydro-psychoses

Frederick Elmer Bolton - 1899 - 66 pages
...Barkis. " People can't die along the coast," said Mr. Peggoty, ' except when the tide's pretty near out. They can't be born unless its pretty nigh in — not properly born, till flood. He's a goin' out with the tide. Its ebb at half arter three, slack water half- an- hour. If he lives till...
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The king of the wood. The perils of the soul

James George Frazer - 1900 - 510 pages
...I'olkenkuniit van NederlanJsfh fuJu; ME James in Folklore, ix. (18981, xlv. (1895), p. 499. p. 189. can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, "except...tide's pretty nigh out They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in — not properly born till flood."1 The belief that most deaths happen at ebb tide...
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The World's Great Masterpieces: History, Biography, Science ..., Volume 10

Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 420 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 'sa going out with the tide. It 's ebb at...
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The personal history of David Copperfield, illustr. by W. Rainey

Charles Dickens - 1904 - 630 pages
...to 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 iu — not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide. It's ebb at...
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Leaves from the Note-books of Lady Dorothy Nevill

Lady Dorothy Nevill - 1907 - 394 pages
...From this East Anglian legend was it that Dickens drew his beautiful picture of the death of Barkis. " People can't die along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty,...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...
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Leaves from the Note-books of Lady Dorothy Nevill

Lady Dorothy Nevill - 1907 - 392 pages
...From this East Anglian legend was it that Dickens drew his beautiful picture of the death of Barkis. " People can't die along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty,...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...
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The Works of Charles Dickens in Thirty-four [i.e. Thirty ..., Volume 15, Issue 2

Charles Dickens - 1868 - 632 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,"...except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be bom, unless it's pretty nigh in — not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide....
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King Henry the Fifth

William Shakespeare - 1908 - 256 pages
...12-13. It is an °ld belief that persons at the point of death pass as the tide begins to ebb. " ' People can't die along the coast,' said Mr. Peggotty, ' except when the tide 's pretty nigh out. . . . He 'sa going out with the tide.'" — Davtd Copperfield, Chapter XXX....
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