1. 12 In his coat, Winchell looks like a Dickensian undertaker; he embarrasses me.

2. ‘Superficially, his novel resembles those grand Dickensian and Balzacian novels of sudden social rise

3. It was the only way to keep you from being such a huge Dickensian.

4. 6 The Dickensian workhouse mentality still exists, but you don't need to subscribe to it.

5. 28 They knew that, like the Dickensian waif, a good wash and new clothes would reveal an angelic face.

6. Threshold described the developments as “21st-century Bedsits with a glossy makeover”, while Green Party Cllr Ciarán Cuffe said the scheme was “Dickensian” in nature

7. ‘Throughout, the characteristically intrusive Balzacian narrator pushes in.’ ‘Superficially, his novel resembles those grand Dickensian and Balzacian novels of sudden social rise or fall.’ ‘The movie moves slowly, cuts out Balzacian dialogue and adds new dialogue of its own.’

8. Victorian London's Brattiest wit, Wilde once remarked, of Dickens' "The Old Curiosity Shop," that "one must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing." It would be stone-hearted to laugh at "The Happy Prince," but its level of sentimentality is nearly Dickensian.

9. She’s into the Dickensian Cryptonyms in a big way (if anyone asks, I’ll tell the story of Tyndale cutting the Peter Pettigrew name exegesis out of Looking for God in Harry Potter because they were convinced that Christian book stores wouldn’t carry the book with a penis reference in it — oh, I guess I’ve told that story now…).