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five unfortunate souls who had died in gaol: Ann Foster, Sarah Osborne, Lydia Dustin, Roger Toothaker, and Mercy Good, who was born in prison and died before her mother was hanged.
Deborah Harkness • The Black Bird Oracle
Vladimir Nabokov • Laughter in the Dark (Vintage International)
The old woman, Marguerite, who had given her lessons in poverty, was a pious woman, a person of genuine devotion, poor and charitable to the poor, and even to the rich, knowing how to write just enough to sign Margeritte, and believing in God, which is knowledge.
Victor Hugo • Les Miserables (Les Misérables)
‘You are a poem – and that is to be the best part of a poet – what makes up the poet’s consciousness in his best moods,’ said Will, showing such originality as we all share with the morning and the spring-time and other endless renewals.
Rosemary Ashton • Middlemarch
‘Well then, it’s certain I told him the truth, for I’d never tell lies to the constable.’ I couldn’t help smiling. ‘Me neither.’ ‘See then,’ he said with a nod of approval, ‘and did I not say that you were an O’Cleary?’