Romances
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Examples
- For them stage-coaches will have become romances--a team of four bays as fabulous as Bucephalus or Black Bess. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The fables we meet with in poems and romances put this entirely out of the question. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- My dear, romances are pernicious. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The most romantic of romances! Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Jo had never tried this style before, contenting herself with very mild romances for _The Spread Eagle_. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- So she made her wedding gown herself, sewing into it the tender hopes and innocent romances of a girlish heart. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Oh yes, I heard all the romances about him in London; and no doubt one story is as true as another. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He did not yet know how many commenced life-romances are doomed never to get beyond the first, or at most the second chapter. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Caliphronas has inoculated us with his antique dreaMs Well, when one is in fairyland, one must dream romances. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
Typist: Portia