Novelty

Examples

• He was as much awake to the novelty of attention in that quarter as Elizabeth herself could be, and unconsciously closed his book. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Even in 1847 few of these things had lost their novelty, most of them were in the earlier stages of development. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• All children were so: a little anxious for novelty, and--no, not selfish, but self-willed. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The novelty of my doing anything in the least useful, had its charms. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It has become quite a novelty to see her here. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I quite envy you the novelty: first impressions, you know, are so pleasant. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He walked out of the yard as quickly as he could, in some amazement at the novelty of his situation. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• They would have over-emphasized the novelty of the adventure, trying to make him feel in it the zest of an escapade. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• At all events there is novelty in being an object of disgust to any man, just when Worcester has so cloyed me with sweets! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Every Christmas Day he presented himself, as a profound novelty, with exactly the same words, and carrying the two bottles like dumb-bells. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Such evidence is to be received with great caution, and the presumption of novelty arising from the grant of the patent is not to be overcome except upon clear and convincing proof. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He was about to show the ladies graces of action possessing at least the charm of novelty. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I mean that it has become no novelty to me to hear from your lips what I would rather not hear. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I so far go along with them for a novelty, that _I_'ll have nothing to do with you either. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• A singular novelty, muttered the knight, to advance to storm such a castle without pennon or banner displayed! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• 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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