Plornish

'Plornish' is not an attractive name, you must admit, said Laura, smiling.

The Girls of Central High on the Stage: or, The Play That Took the Prize 1914

And up sprang the little black figure of Pizotti, alias Plornish, and the next moment he had leaped to the ice!

The Girls of Central High on the Stage: or, The Play That Took the Prize 1914

Say, I ask Plornish as a matter of business for information.

Little Dorrit 2007

Plornish, going up this yard alone and leaving his

Little Dorrit 2007

Thus, in a prolix, gently – growling, foolish way, did Plornish turn the tangled skein of his estate about and about, like a blind man who was trying to find some beginning or end to it; until they reached the prison gate.

Little Dorrit 2007

It was plain enough, nevertheless, as Little Dorrit had said; over a lime – splashed gateway in the corner, within which Plornish kept a ladder and a barrel or two.

Little Dorrit 2007

It was nothing to her that Plornish had a habit of leaning against it as he smoked his pipe after work, when his hat blotted out the pigeon – house and all the pigeons, when his back swallowed up the dwelling, when his hands in his pockets uprooted the blooming garden and laid waste the adjacent country.

Little Dorrit 2007

Plornish declare she did believe there never was such a singer as Father, and wipe her eyes.

Little Dorrit 2007

Plornish took his fortune as smoothly as could be expected; but it was a rough one.

Little Dorrit 2007

Plornish, gave Mr Baptist just enough of this employment to keep the attention of the company fixed upon him.

Little Dorrit 2007