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NOVELISTS > novelist, dramatist > Charles Dickens
Dollars! All their...
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Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars.
Source: Martin Chuzzlewit, ch. 16 (1844), remarking on a company of New Yorkers.
-- Charles Dickens, (Feb 7 1812-1870), English novelist, dramatist; He was one of most prolific and popular English novelists, e.g., A Christmas Carol, 1843 & Tale of Two Cities, 1859.