Novelties

Examples

• The obvious novelties of machinery and locomotion, phonographs and yellow journalism slake the American thirst for creation pretty thoroughly. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• No such importation of novelties could enrich their intellectual stores at present. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Why, you see, commander, says Phil, I ain't acquainted with anythink else, and I doubt if I ain't a-getting too old to take to novelties. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Thus easily do even the most startling novelties grow tame and spiritless to these sight-surfeited wanderers. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• She cast about among her little ornaments to see if she could sell anything to procure the desired novelties. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It had been one of the first novelties and pleasures of his freedom, and was equally the delight of his wife. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• They ran some danger of adding two or three months' imprisonment to the other novelties of their Holy Land Pleasure Excursion. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I like all the novelties, said the ancestress, lifting the stone to her small bright orbs, which no glasses had ever disfigured. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.

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