phiz
Example Sentences
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Theirs is a bouncy, jaunty take on Austen, with a 10-member cast taking on an assortment of roles that are always clearly defined, sometimes as graphically as caricatures by the Dickens illustrator Phiz.
From New York Times • Nov. 26, 2014
Sir John Falstaff's lowlife cronies have the spiky angularity of a Phiz illustration to a Dickens novel.
From The Guardian • Jul. 28, 2011
The frontispiece is a most ambitious work, but none the less successful, for "Phiz" has represented, in the space of a few square inches, all the leading events, humorous and pathetic, described in the novel.
From 'Phiz' (Hablot Knight Browne), a Memoir. by Kitton, Fred. G.
"Phiz" revelled in wild fun in the vignettes relating to the devilries of Mr. Daniel Quilp and the humours of Codlin and Short, and of Mrs. Jarley's waxwork show.
From 'Phiz' (Hablot Knight Browne), a Memoir. by Kitton, Fred. G.
On the 8th of July, 1882, the death occurred of the famous "Phiz."
From 'Phiz' (Hablot Knight Browne), a Memoir. by Kitton, Fred. G.
