Novels

Examples

• It has been made the ground-work of one or two novels and an opera by Wagner. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• My sisters used to subscribe to little circulating libraries in the neighbourhood, for the common novels of the day; but I always hated these. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Another says, 'It's one of the best American novels which has appeared for years. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The first impulse is to abolish all lobster palaces, melodramas, yellow newspapers, and sentimentally erotic novels. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• You'd have nothing but horses, inkstands, and novels in yours, answered Meg petulantly. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Your mind is poisoned with French novels. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Well, he is a lofty man of genius, and admires the great and heroic in life and novels; and so had better take warning and go elsewhere. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• They talked in English, not in bad French, as they do in the novels. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Plays and novels have indeed an overwhelming political importance, as the moderns have maintained. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Pleasure in our cities has become tied to lobster palaces, adventure to exalted murderers, romance to silly, mooning novels. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I said 'Magazines and novels. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• In her absence Miss Crawley solaced herself with the most sentimental of the novels in her library. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Mr. Serjeant Snubbins was a lantern-faced, sallow-complexioned man, of about five-and-forty, or--as the novels say--he might be fifty. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• A vague common tradition is in the air about us--it expresses itself in journalism, in cheap novels, in the uncritical theater. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I then returned with all the old magazines and novels I had not been able to sell, thinking perhaps this would be too much for them. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In novels, the girls show it by starting and blushing, fainting away, growing thin, and acting like fools. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I believe it does in novels; but I'm certain it don't in real life. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Much of the time, I am sorry to say, was devoted to novels, but not those of a trashy sort. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• So this old philanthropist used to make her equal run of her errands, execute her millinery, and read her to sleep with French novels, every night. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• She found time also to read the best novels, and even the second best, and she knew much poetry by heart. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

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