Raffles

Examples

• That's a pity, now, Josh, said Raffles, affecting to scratch his head and wrinkle his brows upward as if he were nonplussed. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Raffles opened wide eyes, and gave a long whistle of surprise, before he said, Well then, I've no objection. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• No, I must say good evening, said Will, dashing up a passage which led into Lowick Gate, and almost running to get out of Raffles's reach. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Perhaps he might deliver a different opinion, and think that Raffles was getting into a less hopeful state. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Raffles was worse, would take hardly any food, was persistently wakeful and restlessly raving; but still not violent. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Here Raffles again winked slowly. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• This time Raffles declined to be seen off the premises, as he expressed it--declined to quit Middlemarch under Bulstrode's eyes. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Raffles, recovering quickly, returning to the free use of his odious powers--how could Bulstrode wish for that? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But, sir--I am obliged to believe that this Raffles has told me the truth. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Mr. Raffles ended with a jocose snuffle: no man felt his intellect more superior to religious cant. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Five days after the death of Raffles, Mr. Bambridge was standing at his leisure under the large archway leading into the yard of the Green Dragon. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Raffles, John Raffles, said Bulstrode, who hoped that whatever became of Raffles, Lydgate would never know any more of him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Hereupon Raffles, who had lifted his hat with the last words, turned himself round with a swing of his leg and walked away. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• To say that Mr. Raffles' manner was rather excited would be only one mode of saying that it was evening. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Raffles on his side had not the same eagerness for a collision which was implied in Ladislaw's threatening air. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

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