In Northanger Abbey and in Sense and Sensibility she satirizes the popular romances of the period, with their Byronic heroes, melodramatic horrors and perpetual harping on some pale heroine's sensibilities.
— from Outlines of English and American Literature An Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by William J. (William Joseph) Long
Page 24 : of steps pursuing her.” of steps pursuing her.
— from Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 4 (of 4) by Charles Robert Maturin
He published his first volume of the History of the Saracens in 1708; and, ardently pursuing his oriental studies, published his second, ten years afterwards, without any patronage.
— from Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli
The sitter, too, if a woman, enjoys the privilege of sacrificing one-half her good looks in a bad light, to favour the other side which is presented to the artist's view, and the third person, if there be one, has a provoking habit of so placing himself as to receive the least flattering impression.
— from Don Orsino by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
He spoke of his devotion to his family, his business integrity, his high ideals; and ended with the plea that in this day of corruption in high places, his own State preserve her prestige by maintaining in office one who had been found able and incorruptible in discharging his duties as judge of the Supreme Court of the State of Montana.
— from A Man of Two Countries by Alice Harriman
e-headed hound of hell, who night and day kept watch beside the gate to see that no one passed in save those who had died upon earth, and that those who had passed him once should pass him never again.
— from Children of the Dawn : Old Tales of Greece by E. F. (Elsie Finnimore) Buckley
From far away came the piercing howl of some prowling hungry wolf, familiar enough to the ears that heard it, but its ravening intimations curdled the blood.
— from The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Mary Noailles Murfree
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