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But a spirit had been with them from the first which fenced, with a hundred quaint customs and legal fictions, the way of a man who wished to walk nameless and alone.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
Something in her proud, honourable soul had crystallised out hard as rock.
D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence • Sons and Lovers
banal
Andrew Child • In Too Deep
even here in the heart of great, hand-made London
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle • Sherlock Holmes
dudgeon;
Charles Dickens • David Copperfield
of Homer, which perhaps was improperly gilded, and this I trust a soldier of our camp has found by this time. I am convinced, that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. These take place only in communities where some have got more than is sufficient while others have not enough. The Pope's Homers wo
... See moreHenry David Thoreau • Walden (Illustrated)
On life and death this old man walked.