 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
 | Charles Dickens - 1910 - 868 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... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1911 - 668 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... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1911 - 568 pages
...me, 3° 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 35 born, unless it's pretty nigh in — not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide.... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1912 - 258 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 in — not properly born, till flood. He's a-going out with the tide. It's ebb at... | |
 | 1915 - 280 pages
...Peggotty 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,'...born unless its pretty nigh in — not properly born 'til flood. He's agoing out with the tide. It's ebb at half arter three, slack water half an hour.... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1919 - 916 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.... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...Death is only an incident in Life." WILLIAM DE MORGAN — Joseph Vance. Ch. XI. (See also BARRIE) 7 pened its gates; the bed of thy repose is there. The waves come, it's pretty nigh in — not properly born, till flood. He's a-going out with the tide." DICKENS—... | |
 | Lillian Eichler Watson - 1924 - 912 pages
...peoples, for he has Mr. Peggotty say (in "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." Shakespeare must have been familiar with this... | |
 | 1926 - 560 pages
...superstition in ' David Copperfield,' Ch. xxx. , as the following extract bears evidence: "People •onn't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, "except...pretty nigh in — not properly born, till flood. He's agoing out with the tide." The moon's influence, however, was in olden times not limited to the human... | |
 | 1880 - 870 pages
...born when the tide was coming in. Dickens, in his novel, " David Copperfield," writes as follows : '' People can't die along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, " except when the tide's pretty near out. They can't be born unless it's pretty nigh in, not properly born, till flood. He's a going... | |
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