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‘That means mischief, eh?’ said Mr Hawley. ‘He’s got the freak of being a popular man now, after dangling about like a stray tortoise.
Rosemary Ashton • Middlemarch
O’Connor’s “Good Country People,”
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
The girl in cotton bodice and her jeans gone fugitive at the knees.
David Foster Wallace • The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel
Alas! it is the fate of Clara Wieland to fall into the hands of a precipitate and inexorable judge.
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
The oldest among them, the humble elder, a tall, stooped man worn fine as a clean, well-used rag by his years of service, so that the mildness of his temperament shone through all his looks and gestures,
Sofia Samatar • The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain
Lilla Cabot Perry,
Natalie Dykstra • Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
"This is no savage country, my friend. But no men? Boys, it behooves us to go forward most politely."