Orlick plunged at the furnace, drew out a red-hot bar, made at me with it as if he were going to run it through my body, whisked it round my head, laid it on the anvil, hammered it out, – as if it were I, I thought, and the sparks were my spirting blood.
– Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, Chapter 15. The day laborer at Joe’s forge Dolge Orlick shows his capacity for violence with threatening behavior towards Pip. This is after Pip is given a half-holiday and Orlick demands one as well, but Joe refuses to entertain this until Orlick is in better temper. Foreshadowed here is Orlick’s attempt to murder Pip later in the novel.