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Beety Buggit
Mrs. Buggit is Jack’s wife and the mother of Jesson and Dennis. She’s intensely loyal and loving to her family even though this means she lives in a near constant state of anxiety over their wellbeing, as her husband and both sons earn at least part of their living at sea. Like many of the other women in and around Killick-Claw, she’s a devoted crafter who fills her home with useful and decorative objects like doilies, tassels, and other knitted and knotted things.
Mrs. Buggit Quotes in The Shipping News
The The Shipping News quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Buggit or refer to Mrs. Buggit. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 26: Deadman
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Everything in the house tatted and doilied in the great art of the place, designs of lace waves and floe ice, whelk shells and sea wrack, the curve of lobster feelers, the round knot of cod-eye, the bristled commas of shrimp and fissured sea caves, white snow on black roc, pinwheeled gulls, the slant of silver rain. Hard, tortured knots encased picture frames of ancestors and anchors, the Bible was fitted with sheets of ebbing foam, the clock’s face peered out like a bride’s from a wreath of worked wildflowers. The knobs of the kitchen dresser sported tassels like a stripper in a bawd house, the kettle handle knitted over in snake-ribs, the easy chairs wore archipelagoes of thread and twine flung over the reefs of arms and backs.
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Mrs. Buggit Quotes in The Shipping News
The The Shipping News quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Buggit or refer to Mrs. Buggit. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 26: Deadman
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Everything in the house tatted and doilied in the great art of the place, designs of lace waves and floe ice, whelk shells and sea wrack, the curve of lobster feelers, the round knot of cod-eye, the bristled commas of shrimp and fissured sea caves, white snow on black roc, pinwheeled gulls, the slant of silver rain. Hard, tortured knots encased picture frames of ancestors and anchors, the Bible was fitted with sheets of ebbing foam, the clock’s face peered out like a bride’s from a wreath of worked wildflowers. The knobs of the kitchen dresser sported tassels like a stripper in a bawd house, the kettle handle knitted over in snake-ribs, the easy chairs wore archipelagoes of thread and twine flung over the reefs of arms and backs.
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