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She was a simpering, but masculine creature. Old romances produce that effect when rubbed against the imagination of cook-shop woman.
Victor Hugo • Les Misérables (English language)
‘Quietly as a lamb!’
Emily Bronte • Wuthering Heights
in early childhood, the daughter of some obscure deacon, who grew up in the rich house of her benefactress,
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
reverenced.
Charlotte Brontë • Jane Eyre: (Annotated Edition)
and they sank beneath the unnatural devotion of their youthful energies to their dry old books?
CHARLES DICKENS • THE PICKWICK PAPERS (illustrated, complete, and unabridged)
But he was set right there by Mrs. Bennet, who assured him with some asperity that they were very well able to keep a good cook, and that her daughters had nothing to do in the kitchen.
Jane Austen • Pride and Prejudice
what an incipient Hell was breeding here!
Charles Dickens • Nicholas Nickleby: By Charles Dickens : Illustrated
It puzzled her to account for all this. It could not be General Tilney’s fault. That he was perfectly agreeable and good-natured, and altogether a very charming man, did not admit of a doubt, for he was tall and handsome, and Henry’s father.
David M. Shapard • The Annotated Northanger Abbey
