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Middlemarch
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  • An hour later, Spencer sat at the kitchen table reading Middlemarch—a book on the English AP "suggested reading" list—when she began to sneeze.†   (source)
  • They had finished Middlemarch in a week and it had given them plenty to discuss.†   (source)
  • "If you two don't mind, I'll continue reading him some Middlemarch," she said.†   (source)
  • Spencer pretended to study Middlemarch's boring back cover.†   (source)
  • Her bookmark was soon ahead of his in Middlemarch, and she was on Zola before he was done.†   (source)
  • He stopped and turned to see the Agent pointing decisively at Middlemarch.†   (source)
  • Middlemarch.†   (source)
  • She was by way of being terrified of him—he was so fearfully clever, and the first night when she had sat by him, and he talked about George Eliot, she had been really frightened, for she had left the third volume of MIDDLEMARCH in the train and she never knew what happened in the end; but afterwards she got on perfectly, and made herself out even more ignorant than she was, because he liked telling her she was a fool.†   (source)
  • For if PRIDE AND PREJUDICE matters, and MIDDLEMARCH and VILLETTE and WUTHERING HEIGHTS matter, then it matters far more than I can prove in an hour's discourse that women generally, and not merely the lonely aristocrat shut up in her country house among her folios and her flatterers, took to writing.†   (source)
  • But they were not granted; they were withheld; and we must accept the fact that all those good novels, VILLETTE, EMMA, WUTHERING HEIGHTS, MIDDLEMARCH, were written by women without more experience of life than could enter the house of a respectable clergyman; written too in the common sitting-room of that respectable house and by women so poor that they could not afford to buy more than a few quires of paper at a time upon which to write WUTHERING HEIGHTS or JANE EYRE.†   (source)
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  • The box was full of things he had been waiting for impatiently; a new volume of Herbert Spencer, another collection of the prolific Alphonse Daudet's brilliant tales, and a novel called "Middlemarch," as to which there had lately been interesting things said in the reviews.†   (source)
  • In "Romeo and Juliet" Juliet has to be important, just as, in "Adam Bede" and "The Mill on the Floss" and "Middlemarch" and "Daniel Deronda," Hetty Sorrel and Maggie Tulliver and Rosamond Vincy and Gwendolen Harleth have to be; with that much of firm ground, that much of bracing air, at the disposal all the while of their feet and their lungs.†   (source)
  • Elmos/ and ten /Ivanhoes/, but only one /Middlemarch/.†   (source)
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  • Brooke standing for Middlemarch?   (source)
    Middlemarch = George Eliot novel that portrays a web of social interaction and is described by many as one of the greatest novels of all time (1871)
  • Probably some of Mr. Farebrother's Middlemarch hearers may follow him to Lowick sometimes.   (source)
  • I've been in the Levant, where some of your Middlemarch goods go—and then, again, in the Baltic.   (source)
  • Do you subscribe to our Middlemarch library?   (source)
  • And now I find he's in everybody's mouth in Middlemarch as the editor of the 'Pioneer.'   (source)
  • But I shall not marry any Middlemarch young man.   (source)
  • Yes, and you will find Middlemarch very tuneless.   (source)
  • It was the pleasantest family party that Lydgate had seen since he came to Middlemarch.   (source)
  • Go to Middlemarch to ax for your charrickter.   (source)
  • "What can you expect with these peddling Middlemarch papers?" said the Rector.   (source)
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  • What is the use of my leaving my work in Middlemarch to go where I have none?   (source)
  • For who of any consequence in Middlemarch was not connected or at least acquainted with the Vincys?   (source)
  • People will not make a boast of being methodistical in Middlemarch for a good while to come.   (source)
  • "The best in Middlemarch, I'll be bound," said Mr. Featherstone, "let the next be who she will."   (source)
  • But this gossip about Bulstrode spread through Middlemarch like the smell of fire.   (source)
  • But I always think Middlemarch a very healthy spot.   (source)
  • "Not more than in Middlemarch," said Rosamond.   (source)
  • "I see Vincy, the Mayor of Middlemarch; they are probably his wife and son," said Sir James,   (source)
  • It's pretty good authority, I think—a man who knows most of what goes on in Middlemarch.   (source)
  • No young man in Middlemarch was good enough for her: I have heard her mother say as much.   (source)
  • If we left Middlemarch? there would of course be a sale, and that would do as well.   (source)
  • Surely now at last you have given up the idea of staying in Middlemarch.   (source)
  • That recoil had at last urged him to make preparations for quitting Middlemarch.   (source)
  • Well, my dear, you will not find any Middlemarch young man who has not something against him.   (source)
  • Middlemarch, in fact, counted on swallowing Lydgate and assimilating him very comfortably.   (source)
  • "I assure you my mind is raw," she said immediately; "I pass at Middlemarch."   (source)
  • The day after to-morrow I shall leave Middlemarch.   (source)
  • At Middlemarch in those times a large sale was regarded as a kind of festival.   (source)
  • But it is a pity that young Lydgate should have married one of these Middlemarch girls.   (source)
  • "You will not like us at Middlemarch, I feel sure," she said, when the whist-players were settled.   (source)
  • An' there's them i' Middlemarch knows what the Rinform is—an' as knows who'll hev to scuttle.   (source)
  • They are rich, and it is not often that a good house is vacant in Middlemarch.   (source)
  • Middlemarch is a little backward, I admit—the freemen are a little backward.   (source)
  • And it occurred to him that Dorothea was the real cause of the present visit to Middlemarch.   (source)
  • I know a little too much about Middlemarch elections.   (source)
  • Who was it that sold his bit of land to the Papists at Middlemarch?   (source)
  • They said the last unsuccessful candidate at Middlemarch—Giles, wasn't his name?   (source)
  • How could he go silently away from Middlemarch as if he were retreating before a just condemnation?   (source)
  • Let us have a sale and leave Middlemarch altogether.   (source)
  • But here—in such a place as Middlemarch—there must be a great deal to be done.   (source)
  • "I have not yet been pained by finding any excessive talent in Middlemarch," said Lydgate, bluntly.   (source)
  • But we are not going to leave Middlemarch.   (source)
  • This second cousin was a Middlemarch mercer of polite manners and superfluous aspirates.   (source)
  • "The standard of that profession is low in Middlemarch, my dear sir," said the banker.   (source)
  • If we are to live in that way let us at least leave Middlemarch.   (source)
  • Does it seem incongruous to you that a Middlemarch surgeon should dream of himself as a discoverer?   (source)
  • "Middlemarch has not a very high standard, uncle," said Rosamond, with a pretty lightness, going towards her whip, which lay at a distance.   (source)
  • It is very clear to me that I must not count on anything else than getting away from Middlemarch as soon as I can manage it.   (source)
  • There are tremendous sarcasms against a landlord not a hundred miles from Middlemarch, who receives his own rents, and makes no returns.   (source)
  • Of course, I wish you to make discoveries: no one could more wish you to attain a high position in some better place than Middlemarch.   (source)
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