ellauri100.html on line 868: I’ll bring you plums to-morrow
ellauri151.html on line 161: The book was a huge commercial success, quickly going through two editions. Reviews were favourable, but not all so. In an unsigned piece in The Times the reviewer opined, "We owe it to literature to protest against this last production of Mr. Dickens. Shades of Fielding and Scott! Is it for such jargon as this that we have given your throne to one who cannot estimate his eminence?" However, William Makepeace Thackeray enjoyed the book immensely: "To us, it appears it is a good Christmas book, illuminated with extra gas, crammed with extra bonbons, French plums and sweetness.This story is no more a real story than Peerybingle is a real name!
ellauri160.html on line 48: Came trotting in circles and throwing green plums. You walked about my seat, playing with blue plums.
ellauri313.html on line 167: Tällänen "han/de jagar mig, jag sitter fast" on naistrillereille ominainen kauhukuva. Sä hoppade Aida plums i den kalla Östersjön. Adjö Aida, invandrare.
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