English "novelist, dramatist".
"He was one of most prolific and popular English novelists, e.g., "A Christmas Carol," 1843 & "Tale of Two Cities," 1859."
Take example by your father, my boy, and be wery careful o' vidders all your life, specially if they've kept a public house, Sammy."
"I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together."
"Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation."
"If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers."
"'If the law supposes that,' said Mr. Bumble . . . , 'the law is a ass - a idiot.'"