There was a literary gentleman present who had dramatised in his time two hundred and forty-seven novels as… — Charles Dickens
There was a literary gentleman present who had dramatised in his time two hundred and forty-seven novels as fast as they had come out—and who was a literary gentleman in consequence.
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The plot was most interesting. It belonged to no particular age, people, or country, and was perhaps the more delightful on that account, as nobody’s previous information could afford the remotest glimmering of what would ever come of it.
Formalities, formalities, must not be neglected in civilized society.
He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.
