A dreadful day it was for young Dobbin when one of the youngsters of the school, having run into the town upon a poaching excursion for hardbake and polonies, espied the cart of Dobbin & Rudge, Grocers and Oilmen, Thames Street, London, at the Doctor's door, discharging a cargo of the wares in which the firm dealt.
We call him Figs because his father is a Grocer--Figs & Rudge, Thames St., City--I think as he fought for me you ought to buy your Tea & Sugar at his father's.
[7] If the invasion of the legitimate sphere of prose in England by the spirit of poetry, weaker or stronger, has been something far deeper than is indicated by that tendency to write unconscious blank verse, which has made it feasible to transcribe about one-half of Dickens's otherwise so admirable Barnaby
Rudge in blank-verse lines, a tendency (outdoing our old friend M.
I liked 'David Copperfield,' and 'Barnaby
Rudge,' and
It is altogether a place that you won't forget, a place to open a man's soul, and make him prophesy, as he looks down on that great Vale spread out as the garden of the Lord before him, and wave on wave of the mysterious downs behind, and to the right and left the chalk hills running away into the distance, along which he can trace for miles the old Roman road, "the Ridgeway" ("the
Rudge," as the country folk call it), keeping straight along the highest back of the hills--such a place as Balak brought Balaam to, and told him to prophesy against the people in the valley beneath.
And far enough they might have looked for poor Mr
Rudge the steward, whose body--scarcely to be recognised by his clothes and the watch and ring he wore--was found, months afterwards, at the bottom of a piece of water in the grounds, with a deep gash in the breast where he had been stabbed with a knife.
PC Cheryl
Rudge - who had a 21-year unblemished record - resigned days before a misconduct hearing at Dyfed-Powys Police headquarters in Carmarthen yesterday.
WEST Brom Basketball Club captain Cash Evans believes players have 'bought in' to coach Tim
Rudge's philosophy as he hopes to push on this season.
JOHN
RUDGE turned the flat cap into a symbol of protest as well as a fashion statement when he was Port Vale boss.
Perverted Luke
Rudge was sentenced to 14 month - and a further EIGHT YEARS on licence following his release - after being dubbed a high risk to the public.
Luke
Rudge then followed up that bizarre behaviour at Leamington library by sniff-sniffing the woman's boots, which she had taken off, telling her she had beautiful feet.
MEZZO?SOPRANO Kathryn
Rudge will have the memory of her dad firmly in her thoughts when she sings at the Royal Liverpool Hospital's charity carol concert.