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There were three brothers Paris: Andrew, Charles, Simon. - Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson, One Increasing Purpose [1925] (pt. 1, ch. 1) Rosalie's earliest apprehension of the world was of a mysterious and extraordinary world that revolved entirely about her father and that entirely and completely belonged to her father. Under her father, all males had proprietory rights in the world and dominion over it; no females owned any part of the world or could do anything with it. - Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson, This Freedom [1922] (part I, ch. I) BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK It had all been arranged by telegram, Jeremy Pordage was to look out for a coloured chauffeur in a grey uniform with a carnation in his button-hole; and the coloured chauffeur was to look out for a middle-aged Englishman carrying the Poetical Works of Wordsworth. In spite of the crowds at the station, they found one another without difficulty. - Aldous Huxley, After Many a Summer [1939], later editions titled as After Many a Summer Dies the Swan A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY. - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World [1932] Along this particular stretch of line no express had ever passed. All the trains--the few that there were--stopped at all the stations. Denis knew the names of those stations by heart. Bole, Tritton, Spavin Delawarr, Knipswich for Timpany, West Bowlby, and, finally, Camlet-on-the-Water. - Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow [1921] The snapshots had become almost as dim as memories. - Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza [1936] "You won't be late?" There was anxiety in Marjorie Carling's voice, there was something like entreaty. - Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point [1928] They were to have met in the garden of the Chapelle Expiatoire at five o'clock in the afternoon, but Julio Desnoyers with the impatience of a lover who hopes to advance the moment of meeting by presenting himself before the appointed time, arrived an half hour earlier. The change of the seasons was at this time greatly confused in his mind, and evidently demanded some readjustment. - Vicente Blasco Ibanez, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse [1918] (pt. 1, ch. 1), (Charlotte Brewster Jordan translation) [The following Tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker, an old gentleman of New York, who was curious in the Dutch history of the province, and the manners of the descendants from its primitive settlers. His historical researches, however, did not lie so much among books as among men; for the former are lamentably scanty on his favorite topics; whereas he found the old burghers, and still more their wives, rich in that legendary lore, so invaluable to true history. . . .] - Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle [1819], (from The Sketch Book) In the bosom of one of those spacious coves which indent the eastern shore of the Hudson, at that broad expansion of the river denominated by the ancient Dutch navigators the Tappan Zee, and where they always prudently shortened sail and implored the protection of St. Nicholas when they crossed, there lies a small market town or rural port, which by some is called Greensburgh, but which is more generally and properly known by the name of Tarry Town. - Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow [1819], (from The Sketch Book) I was always fond of visiting new scenes, and observing strange characters and manners. Even when a mere child I began my travels, and made many tours of discovery into foreign parts and unknown regions of my native city, to the frequent alarm of my parents, and the emolument of the town-crier. - Washington Irving, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [1819] I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. - Christopher Isherwood, Goodbye to Berlin [1939], first sentence of second paragraph Strether's first question, when he reached the hotel, was about his friend; yet on his learning that Waymarsh was apparently not to arrive till evening he was not wholly disconnected. - Henry James, Jr., The Ambassadors [1903] On a brilliant day in May, in the year 1868, a gentleman was reclining at his ease on the great circular divan which at that period occupied the centre of the Salon Carre, in the Museum of the Louvre. - Henry James, Jr., The American [1877] Save when it happened to rain Vanderbank always walked home, but he usually took a hansom when the rain was moderate and adopted the preference of the philosopher when it was heavy. On this occasion he therefore recognized, as the servant opened the door, a congruity between the weather and the 'four-wheeler' that, in the empty street, under the glazed radiance, waited and trickled and blackly glittered. - Henry James, Jr., The Awkward Age [1899] (ch. 1) "Olive will come down in about ten minutes; she told me to tell you that." - Henry James, Jr., The Bostonians [1886] The Prince had always liked his London, when it had come to him; he was one of the modern Romans who find by the Thames a more convincing image of the truth of the ancient state than any they have left by the Tiber. - Henry James, Jr., The Golden Bowl [1904] "No, my lord," Banks had replied, "no stranger has yet arrived. But I'll see if any one has come in--or who has." - Henry James, Jr., The Outcry [1911] Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. - Henry James, Jr., The Portrait of a Lady [1881] "Oh yes, I daresay I can find the child, if you would like to see him," Miss Pynsent said; she had a fluttering wish to assent to every suggestion made by her visitor, whom she regarded as a high and rather terrible personage. - Henry James, Jr., The Princess Casamassima [1886] She waited, Kate Croy, for her father to come in, but he kept her unconscionably, and there were moments at which she showed herself, in the glass over the mantel, a face positively pale with the irritation that had brought her to the point of going away without sight of him. - Henry James, Jr., The Wings of the Dove [1902] There was something about the coast of Dunnet which made it seem more attractive than other maritime villages of eastern Maine. - Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs [1896] The day was Thursday; the month, October, rushing to its close; and the battered alarm-clock on the red mantel stood at precisely one o'clock. - Owen McMahon Johnson, The Salamander [1914] (ch. 1) The valley lay like a ribbon thrown into the midst of the encompassing hills. The grass which grew there was soft and fine and abundant; the trees which sprang from its dark, rich mould were tall and great of girth. A bright stream flashed through it, and the sunshine fell warm upon the grass and changed the tassels of the maize into golden plumes. - Mary Johnston, Audrey [1901] (ch. 1) The tobacco-roller and his son pitched their camp beneath a gum tree upon the edge of the wood. - Mary Johnston, Lewis Rand [1908] Displaying page 21 of 98 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 [21] 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98
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