Dickens

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    The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer’s shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked to death in dusty corners of the window.
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    A baked leg of mutton, with potatoes to correspond.
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    It was not exactly a hairdresser’s; that is to say, people of a coarse and vulgar turn of mind might have called it a barber’s; for they not only cut and curled ladies elegantly, and children carefully, but shaved gentlemen easily.
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)