How To Use Micawber In A Sentence
- He was more than just a drunk, the father; he was a kind of Micawber, a lawyer with big ideas and inventions that didn't sell. Undefined
- Aristide threw back his head, and laughed at the exquisite humour of the hypothesis, and gaily disclosed his Micawberish situation. The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol
- They need to learn Micawber economics - earn nineteen shillings, spend twenty shillings - result unhappiness. Earn twenty shillings spend nineteen shillings - result happiness. Simples.
- A certain nervous expectation, incipient disappointment mitigated by professional Micawberism, is a more accurate description.
- It is sufficient to know that the name to which I do myself the honour to refer, will ever be treasured among the muniments of our house (I allude to the archives connected with our former lodgers, preserved by Mrs. Micawber), with sentiments of personal esteem amounting to affection. David Copperfield
- Richards, known as much for his high-living lifestyle as for his hard-driving guitar style, is famed for his love of Fender Telecasters--including the early '50s "Micawber" shown here, which he uses as a five-string tuned to an open-G. Guitars Of The Stars © Getty...
- Everyone knows Oliver and Fagin, not to mention David Copperfield, Mr. Micawber, Edwin Drood, Mr. Pickwick and the rest of the troop. Our Dickens
- Nobody likes Micawber less for his follies; and Dickens liked his father more, the more he recalled his whimsical qualities. Criticisms and Interpretations. II. By John Forster
- It would be great when Dom was back for the Easter vac and could point out the financial pitfalls to their Mr Micawber-inclined father. TICKLED PINK
- To use a burning consciousness of one’s own misery, of the shackles that cut one’s own limbs, to quicken one’s sense of life in general, as Dickens did, to shape out of the murk which has surrounded one’s childhood some resplendent figure such as Micawber or Mrs. Gamp, is admirable: but to use personal suffering to rivet the reader’s sympathy and curiosity upon your private case is disastrous. The Common Reader, Second Series
