Charles Dickens, Hard Times

"He had not much hair. One might have fancied hehad talked it off; and that what was left, all standing up in disorder, was in that condition from being constantly blown about by his windy boastfulness" (narrator, describing Josiah Bounderby)

"This, again, was one of the fictions of Coketown. Any capitalist there, who had made sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, always professed to wonder why the sixty thousand nearest hands didn't each make sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, and more or less reproached them every one for not accomplishing the little feat. What I dod you cna do. Why don't you go and do it?" (117)

Words
Commodious
Peremptory
Bolus
Conchology
Vaunt
Chandler
Supercilious
Dudgeon
Inveigle
Stolid
Simoom
Truckle Bed
Cutlass
Carbine
Improvident
Enervate
Whelp