 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 - 1928 - 858 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.... | |
 | Deborah Kirklin, Ruth Richardson - 2001 - 182 pages
...acknowledged the tidal metaphor of life and death, when Mr Peggorty said: People can't die along the coast, except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't...pretty nigh in - not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide.29 These plaintive lines show Dickens's knowledge of Shakespeare, and also... | |
 | Gardner Dozois - 2001 - 466 pages
...distraction. Until someone's trapped and dying in the dark, that is. . . . "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. ... If he lives... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 2006 - 462 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,'...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 halfarter... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1874 - 576 pages
...only expression it had. 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 half... | |
 | 582 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... | |
 | 1865 - 616 pages
...Dickens' David Copperfield. Looking over that novel, I find in chapter xxx. the following passage: "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 (speaking of a sick man) a going out with... | |
 | 1881 - 438 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... | |
 | 1882 - 506 pages
...children were born on the incoming, or flood tide. In Dickens David Copperfield, Chap, xxx, we find that "People can't die along the coast, said Mr. Peggotty, except when the tide is pretty uigh out. BIRTH-TIME IN EACH TWENTY-FOUR HOURS. 267 They can't be born unless it's pretty... | |
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