A dangerous quality, if real; and a not less dangerous one, if feigned.

Bleak House The beating of my heart was so violent and wild that I felt as if my life were breaking from me. Barnaby Rudge Mrs. Varden was a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper -- a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable. Oliver Twist Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. Martin Chuzzlewit With affection beaming in one eye and calculation shining out of the other. Bleak House "Think! Ive got enough to do, and little enough to get for it, without thinking." David Copperfield I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going let the other be where he may. Oliver Twist There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. A Christmas Carol, Stave I Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. Bleak House A word in earnest is as good as a speech. Dombey and Son But what was a girl to Dombey and Son! In the capital of the House's name and dignity, such a child was merely a piece of base coin that couldn't be invested -- a bad Boy -- nothing more. David Copperfield "When a man says he's willin'," said Mr. Barkis, "it's as much as to say, that man's a-waitin' for a answer." Bleak House It's my girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.