Dombey

You are not to suppose that I am anything but disconcerted to-day, in the agitation of my soul concerning Christmas; but I have been brooding, like Dombey himself, over _Dombey_ these two days, until

The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete John Forster 1844

Florence Dombey is the Tiny Tim of Dombey and Son, and here's a description of her: Florence was little more than a child in years -- not yet fourteen -- and the loneliness and gloom of such an hour in the great house where Death had lately made its own tremendous devastation might have set an older fancy brooding on great terrors.

Canonical Writers 2008

Presumably this was an unrelated short novel in Nicholson†™ s top-drawer, a project he managed to publish by substituting the name Dombey for whatever name he†™ d originally given his ‘Benign Old Rich Man†™ character.

The Valve 2009

Presumably this was an unrelated short novel in Nicholson†™ s top-drawer, a project he managed to publish by substituting the name Dombey for whatever name he†™ d originally given his ‘Benign Old Rich Man†™ character.

The Valve 2009

The next morning Miss Blimber called Dombey to her and gave him a great pile of books.

Ten Boys from Dickens Kate Dickinson Sweetser 1903

Cornelia called Dombey to her to hear the analysis of his character that she was about to send to his father.

Ten Boys from Dickens Kate Dickinson Sweetser 1903

'Dombey's obsession with Paul's future obliterates all regard for Paul's present.'

My First Serial Killer 2009

Would Snatchett and Brothers cast an eye on their compatriot's scrawled and blotted quires, when they had just run the pen-knife through a new "Dombey," for which fifty compositors waited stick-in-hand, and which the million expected with insatiable greediness?

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Various

By the way, how incredible is all the Carker episode in "Dombey"!

Essays in Little Andrew Lang 1878

But "Dombey" is very different work, and the first five numbers especially, which carry the story to the death of little Paul, contain passages of humour and pathos, and of humour and pathos mingled together and shot in warp and woof, like some daintiest silken fabric, that are scarcely to be matched in the language.

Life of Charles Dickens 1876