I couldn't warm my feet, to which the damp cold seemed riveted, as the iron was riveted to the leg of the man I was running to meet.

I couldn’t warm my feet, to which the damp cold seemed riveted, as the iron was riveted to the leg of the man I was running to meet.

– Charles Dickens

Great Expectations, Chapter 3. Using a simile Pip compares the damp cold “riveted” to his feet to the leg-iron shacked to the escaped prisoner he is running to meet. The leg-iron symbolizes justice.

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