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
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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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