Petra
08-13-2004, 09:53 AM
Here's ten of 'em:
1. "Mrs Glegg had doubtless the glossiest and crispest brown curls in her drawers, as well as curls in various degrees of fuzzy laxness." (George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss)
2. "She touched his organ, and from that bright epoch even it, the old companion of his happiest hours, incapable as he had thought of elevation, began a new defined existence." (Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit)
3. "'Oh, I can't explain,' cried Roderick impatiently, returning to his work. 'I've only one way of expressing my deepest feelings - it's this.' And he swung his tool." (Henry James, Roderick Hudson)
4. "Thus rendered bold by frequent intercourse, I dared to take her hand." (edited by F M Reynolds, The Keepsake)
5. "I'll come no more behind your screnes, David, for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities." [Samuel Johnson in converstaion with David garrick in Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson)
6. "Prince of the school, he had gained an easy dominion over the old Greek master by the fascination of his parts." (Walter Pater, Marius of Epicurean)
7. "Mrs. Goddard was the mistress of a school ... where young ladies for enormous pay might be screwed out of health and into vanity." (Jane Austen, Emma)
8. "You think me a queer fellow already. It's not easy to tell you how I feel, not easy for so queer a fellow as I to tell you in how many ways he's queer." (Henry James, Passionate Pilgrim)
9. "Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations" (George Herbert's subtitle to his famous book of poems The Temple)
10. "Mrs Ray declared that she had not found it all hard and then, with an laudable curiosity, seeing how little she had known about balls, desired to have an immediate account..." (Anthony Trollope, Rachel Ray)
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1. "Mrs Glegg had doubtless the glossiest and crispest brown curls in her drawers, as well as curls in various degrees of fuzzy laxness." (George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss)
2. "She touched his organ, and from that bright epoch even it, the old companion of his happiest hours, incapable as he had thought of elevation, began a new defined existence." (Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit)
3. "'Oh, I can't explain,' cried Roderick impatiently, returning to his work. 'I've only one way of expressing my deepest feelings - it's this.' And he swung his tool." (Henry James, Roderick Hudson)
4. "Thus rendered bold by frequent intercourse, I dared to take her hand." (edited by F M Reynolds, The Keepsake)
5. "I'll come no more behind your screnes, David, for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities." [Samuel Johnson in converstaion with David garrick in Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson)
6. "Prince of the school, he had gained an easy dominion over the old Greek master by the fascination of his parts." (Walter Pater, Marius of Epicurean)
7. "Mrs. Goddard was the mistress of a school ... where young ladies for enormous pay might be screwed out of health and into vanity." (Jane Austen, Emma)
8. "You think me a queer fellow already. It's not easy to tell you how I feel, not easy for so queer a fellow as I to tell you in how many ways he's queer." (Henry James, Passionate Pilgrim)
9. "Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations" (George Herbert's subtitle to his famous book of poems The Temple)
10. "Mrs Ray declared that she had not found it all hard and then, with an laudable curiosity, seeing how little she had known about balls, desired to have an immediate account..." (Anthony Trollope, Rachel Ray)
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