Lazarus

Examples

• One Sunday night my mother reads to Peggotty and me in there, how Lazarus was raised up from the dead. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The house of Lazarus is a three-story edifice, of stone masonry, but the accumulated rubbish of ages has buried all of it but the upper story. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I think instead of Lazarus at the gate, we should put the pigsty cottages outside the park-gate. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• And they showed us also a large Fountain of Lazarus, and in the centre of the village the ancient dwelling of Lazarus. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He would not deny himself one enjoyment; not his opera-stall, not his horse, not his dinner, not even the pleasure of giving Lazarus the five pounds. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Lazarus appears to have been a man of property. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I don't owe any man a shilling: on the contrary, I lent my old college friend, Jack Lazarus, fifty pounds, for which my executors will not press him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Ere you are aware you stand face to face with a shrouded and unthought-of calamity--a new Lazarus. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• My hook and gloves are like the St. Lazarus rattle of the leper, warning the world to get out of the way of a sight that would sadden them. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• They showed us the tomb of Lazarus. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It is because they get him confused with that Lazarus who had no merit but his virtue, and virtue never has been as respectable as money. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Others toil and moil all their lives long--and the very dogs are not pitiful in our days, as they were in the days of Lazarus. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• If Lazarus was only half as far gone, that was the greatest of all the miracles. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

Edited by Davy