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Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist
- “The child that was half-baptized Oliver Twist, is nine year old today.”
- “They’re all in one story, Mrs. Mann. That out-dacious Oliver had demogalized them all!”
Mary Shelly - Frankenstein
- I failed; yet still I clung to the hope which the next day or the next hour might realize.
- Henry rejoiced in my gaiety, and sincerely sympathized in my feelings:
King James Bible
- 40:003:006 And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.
Walter Scott - Ivanhoe
- which they certainly would never have gained had not the manners and style been in some degree familiarized to the feelings and habits of the western reader.
George Elliott - Middlemarch
these maybe from American version, check
- and are dispersed among hindrances, instead of centring in some long-recognizable deed.
- but of course he theorized a little about hisattachment.
- She would perhaps be hardly characterized enough if it were omitted
Jane Austin - Pride and Prejudice
- Miss Bennet was therefore established as a sweet girl; and their brother felt authorized by such commendation to think of her as he chose.
- I cannot be otherwise than concerned at being the means of injuring your amiable daughters, and beg leave to apologize for it
George Orwell - 1984
- He moved over to the window: a smallish, frail figure, the meagreness of his body merely emphasized by the blue overalls which were the uniform of the party.
Shakespeare
Much ado about nothing
- Well, you temporize with the hours. In the meantime, good Signior Benedick, repair to Leonato's:
King Lear
Then let them anatomize Regan; see what breeds about her heart.
Macbeth
- A woman's story at a winter's fire, Authorized by her grandam.