Charles Dickens

er að lesa Great Expectations eftir hann og þar er þessi fína lýsing á áti, 3.kafli:

"I had often watched a large dog of ours eating his food; and I now
noticed a decided similarity between the dog's way of eating, and
the man's.  The man took strong sharp sudden bites, just like the
dog.  He swallowed, or rather snapped up, every mouthful, too soon
and too fast; and he looked sideways here and there while he ate,
as if he thought there was danger in every direction, of somebody's
coming to take the pie away.(...) In all of which particulars he was very like the dog."

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