Hulks
[hʌlks]
Examples
- Then, as I looked up at it, while it dripped, it seemed to my oppressed conscience like a phantom devoting me to the Hulks. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Now, the Hulks has got its gentleman again, through me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The hue and cry going off to the Hulks, and people coming thence to examine the iron, Joe's opinion was corroborated. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I tell you they are rascals: men fit to send to the hulks. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- From the Hulks! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Those among you who were prisoners in England can tell their comrades what frightful torments they suffered on board the English hulks. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- People are put in the Hulks because they murder, and because they rob, and forge, and do all sorts of bad; and they always begin by asking questions. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- And there's gentlemen in this town says they'd as soon dine with a fellow from the hulks. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Hulks are prison-ships, right 'cross th' meshes. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- And please, what's Hulks? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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