Hamlet

Examples

• Quito, which had been but a miserable hamlet of Indians, is represented by the same author as in his time equally populous. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• You would think it romantic to be walking with a person fat and scant o' breath if I were Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• When Camargo was reached, we found a city of tents outside the Mexican hamlet. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He walked as softly as the Ghost in Hamlet, and more slowly. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I felt it would be degrading to faint with hunger on the causeway of a hamlet. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• President Cleveland was born in that quiet hamlet. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Or stop still and meditate, like the Hamlet you compare yourself to, if I go too fast. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I and Dr. Boultby intend to erect one in the hamlet of Ecclefigg, which is under our vicarage of Whinbury. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Mr. Waterbrook went down with Hamlet's aunt. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• You're out in your reading of Hamlet when you get your legs in profile. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• You can teach me, and then when we play _Hamlet_, you can be Laertes, and we'll make a fine thing of the fencing scene. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• He was conscious that he was at Winthorpe hamlet, but quite unconscious how he had got there. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• At the time of its first occupancy by United States troops there was a small Mexican hamlet there, containing probably less than one hundred souls. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• His questions made him famous in many a hamlet, where such inquisitiveness had never been known before. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• With new courage, therefore, I pressed on, and in two days arrived at a wretched hamlet on the seashore. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Four raw new towns, and many ugly industrial hamlets were crowded under his dependence. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• But in upland hamlets the transition from a-bed to abroad is surprisingly swift and easy. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• They were the bonfires of other parishes and hamlets that were engaged in the same sort of commemoration. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• We voyaged by steamer down the Lago di Lecco, through wild mountain scenery, and by hamlets and villas, and disembarked at the town of Lecco. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The people in at least one of these hamlets lived underground for protection against the Indians. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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