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Behold your future, Cavendish the Younger. You will not apply for membership, but the tribe of the elderly will claim you. Your present will not keep pace with the world’s.
David Mitchell • Cloud Atlas: A Novel
I'll take the opportunity, if you please, of entering your name in our Callers' Book for the day.' Young Blight made another great show of changing the volume, taking up a pen, sucking it, dipping it, and running over previous entries before he wrote. As, 'Mr Alley, Mr Balley, Mr Calley, Mr Dalley, Mr Falley, Mr Galley, Mr Halley, Mr Lalley, Mr
... See moreCharles Dickens • Our Mutual Friend: Premium Edition (Unabridged, Illustrated, Table of Contents)
On her fourteenth birthday, he gives her a bowdlerized translation of Ovid’s Metamorphosis.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
only vestiges left in Mr L. Prosser of his mighty ancestry were a pronounced stoutness about the tum and a predilection for little fur hats.
Douglas Adams • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Then, Max wrote, S. S. Van Dine called “to give notice” that he would bring in his newest manuscript—
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
Apart from his dinners and his coursing, Mr Vincy, blustering as he was, had as little of his own way as if he had been a prime minister: the force of circumstances was easily too much for him, as it is for most pleasure-loving florid men; and the circumstance called Rosamond was particularly forcible by means of that mild persistence which, as we
... See moreRosemary Ashton • Middlemarch
Flipping backward through the photos, Nicholas feels the years peel off like steamed wallpaper. Always the animals.