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Sentences ending with novel

Have you finished your novel? [4]
It is really what would have occurred if this were a novel. [5]
Certain people who were living in St. Louis during the Civil War have been mentioned as the originals of characters in "The Crisis," and there are houses in that city which have been pointed out as fitting descriptions in that novel. [9]
We did not understand why a country that admits our beef and grain and cheese should seem to seek protection against a literary product which is brought into competition with one of the great British staples, the modern novel. [4]
In any case, this tale has no claim to be called a historical novel. [11]
This is pre-eminently the age of the novel. [4]
It is just that--" "Oh, I see," Mrs. Mavick interrupted, with good-humor, "it's about the novel. [4]
Ah, you were reading--that novel. [4]
I've got another rattling good character for my novel! [5]
This was scarcely permissible in a novel. [10]

Short sentences using novel

To write a novel? [5]
Is it the novel? [4]
Not the domestic novel. [4]
He writes a novel. [11]
So this novel approached completion. [10]
No novel. [4]

Sentences containing novel two or more times

It is true that no novel has been written, and we dare say no novel will be written, that is, or will be, an epitome of the manifold diversities of American life, unless it be in the form of one of Walt Whitman's catalogues. [4]
Even for these purposes, that novel is the best which shows us the best possibilities of our lives--the novel which gives hope and cheer instead of discouragement and gloom. [4]
When the poor novel sells vastly better than the good novel, the poor will be produced to supply the demand, the general taste will be still further lowered, and the power of discrimination fade out more and more. [4]
That was Bishop--Bishop had just burst handsomely upon the world with a most acceptable novel, which had appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, a place which would make any novel respectable and any author noteworthy. [5]
Charley Steele is going to be a novel of one hundred thousand words or one hundred and twenty thousand--a real bang-up heartful of a novel. [11]
Falchion' was my first real novel, as I have said, though it had been preceded by a short novel called 'The Chief Factor', since rescued from publication and never published in book form in England. [11]

More example sentences with the word novel in them

There were literary young ladies, who had read everything of Dickens and Thackeray, and something at least of Sir Walter, and occasionally, perhaps, a French novel, which they had better have let alone. [6]
It might give you a novel sensation to walk in at any time. [4]
If I were writing a novel, instead of a veracious chronicle, I should not have introduced it, for it is an anachronism. [4]
Set up originally with the bark on, the worms worked underneath it in secret, at a novel sort of decoration, until the bark came off and exposed the stems most beautifully vermiculated, giving the effect of fine carving. [4]
He is curled with a novel in his grandfather's easy chair by the window. [9]
My dear Charmian, who wrote the successful novel of last year, do you not already repent your rash act? [4]
I had hoped when I planned the series to bring down this novel through the stirring period which ended, by a chance, when a steamboat brought supplies to Jackson's army in New Orleans--the beginning of the era of steam commerce on our Western waters. [9]
In this company were a couple of gallants, lately come over, Gabriel Beadle and John Russell, proper gentlemen, but unused to hardships, whom Smith has immortalized by his novel cure of their profanity. [4]
Alice liked society well enough, she thought, but there was nothing exciting in that of Fallkill, nor anything novel in the attentions of the well-bred young gentlemen one met in it. [5]
Her spacious house was always open, and her efforts, in charity enterprises and novel entertainments, were untiring to stimulate a circulation in the languid body of society. [4]
It would cost very little to adjust the novel in this way to any season. [4]
There is a very celebrated novel, "Madame Bovary," the work of M. Flaubert, which is noted for having been the subject of prosecution as an immoral work. [6]
They are of two sorts: the domestic story, entirely unidealized, and as flavorless as water-gruel; and the spiced novel, generally immoral in tendency, in which the social problems are handled, unhappy marriages, affinity and passional attraction, bigamy, and the violation of the seventh commandment. [4]
You have to turn back to Shakespeare for any talk of peasants and clowns and shepherds to compare with the conversations in this novel, so racy are they of the soil, and yet so touched with the finest art, the enduring art. [4]
It is, perhaps, too much to say that all the American novel needs for its development is an audience, but it is safe to say that an audience would greatly assist it. [4]
Indeed Miss Bronte told me that, before publication, she had sent those parts of the novel in which these remarkable persons are introduced, to one of the sons; and his reply, after reading it, was simply that "she had not drawn them strong enough. [14]
We are accustomed to think that with the advent of the genuine novel of society, in the first part of this century, a great step forward was taken in fiction. [4]
Every novel is, to some extent, a compound of truth and fiction, and he has done his best to picture conditions as they were, and to make the spirit of his book true. [9]
Then their pleasure--not to say delirium--was so fresh and novel and inspiring that the sight of it paid me well for the interruptions which my sleep had suffered. [5]
I had gone to Quebec to start the thing in the atmosphere where Charley Steele belonged, and there it was borne in upon me that it must be a three- decker novel, not a novelette. [11]
Thackeray never pretended to make ideals, and if the best novel is an idealization of human nature, then he was not the best novelist. [4]
This was a time when the historical novel was having its vogue. [11]
And above all," thought Prince Andrew, "one believes in him because he's Russian, despite the novel by Genlis and the French proverbs, and because his voice shook when he said: 'What they have brought us to! [2]
But here in this novel is one which seems to promise. [5]
We went down there, later, and saw that novel congress of the wild peoples, and plowed here and there through it, and concluded that it would be worth coming from Calcutta to see, even if there were no Kinchinjunga and Everest. [5]
At the entrance the water is illuminated, and there is a pleasant, mild light within: one has there a novel subterranean sensation; but it did not remind me of anything I have seen in the "Arabian Nights. [4]
For, no doubt, the reader winces often because the novel reveals to himself certain possible baseness, selfishness, and meanness. [4]
She greatly desired the novel to be turned into a play, and so it was. [11]
The importation into the novel of the vulgar, sordid, and ignoble in life is always unbearable, unless genius first fuses the raw material in its alembic. [4]
In this case the novel itself was recognized as being, without extraneous help, respectable. [5]
Rousseau's Contrat-Social and the novel Emile were published in 1761. [4]
I confess that the morning is a very good time to read a novel, or anything else which is good and requires a fresh mind; and I take it that nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind. [4]
Its finest street, the Maximilian, built by the late king of that name, is of a novel and wholly modern style of architecture, not an imitation, though it may remind some of the new portions of Paris. [4]
The first of the letters published in The House of Harper, however, was apparently written immediately after my return to London when the novel was well on its way. [11]
The scene of the last novel was laid in part in Warner's early home in Charlemont. [4]
The novelist knows the deep significance of every article of toilet, and nature teaches him to array his characters for the summer novel in the airy draperies suitable to the season. [4]
We forget that the creation of the novel should be, to a certain extent, a synthetic process, and impart to human actions that ideal quality which we demand in painting. [4]
The novel is the common recreation of ladies of rank, and where is the young woman in this country who has not tried her hand at a romance or made a cast at a popular magazine? [4]
I've thrown away the chance of the biggest kind of a novel of American life. [4]
Equally baseless is the assumption that it is inartistic and untrue to nature to bring a novel to a definite consummation, and especially to end it happily. [4]
I cannot say that you may not exhaust everything else: we may get all the secrets of a nature into a book by and by, but the novel is immortal, for it deals with men. [4]
I often thought that this novel might perhaps share the fate of my Poem of the World, and find its way into the fire. [10]
He knows, also, that the characters in the winter novel must be adequately protected. [4]
But he knew that if his novel ever got published the critics would call it a romance, and not a transcript of real life. [4]
All which proves that I, as an individual of the human family, could write one novel or story at any rate, if I would. [6]
Is not the system of the paper altogether a novel one? [14]
Pierre was greatly surprised by his wife's view, to him a perfectly novel one, that every moment of his life belonged to her and to the family. [2]
I want to suggest to you the scene of a novel, one that would be bound to be a good seller. [4]
I shall be sufficiently grateful if this series of tales does no more than make ready the way for the novel of Egyptian life on which I have been working for some years. [11]
No startling headlines such as we see now, but a continued novel among the advertisements on the front page and verses from some gifted lady of the town, signed Electra. [9]
The tourist can step in and view this novel spectacle if he chooses. [5]
One evening, however, soon after we had left Aden, we were sitting in my cabin, and the conversation turned upon a recent novel dealing with the defection of a clergyman of the Church of England through agnosticism. [11]
It was a somewhat novel way of, visiting resorts of this nature; there are those to whom it will seem altogether more agreeable than would be the visiting of them in person. [4]
Bret Harte has sold his novel (same size as mine, I should say) to Scribner's Monthly for $6,500 (publication to begin in September, I think,) and he gets a royalty of 7 1/2 per cent from Bliss in book form afterwards. [5]
Their tongues fell silent, but the radiant interest in their faces remained, and their gratitude for the blessing of a new sensation and a novel experience still beamed undimmed from their eyes. [5]
Even if it should turn out reasonably well, still I regard it as ruin to the prosperity of an ephemeral book like a novel, to be much talked of beforehand, as if it were something great. [14]
But I may say that this book was gravely important to me, because it was to test all my capacity for writing a novel with an historical background, and, as it were, in the custom of a bygone time. [11]
But as a rule, we get only the more obvious saliencies, the bones of the novel, fitted in or clothed with stage "business. [4]
His novel, The Rise of Silas Lapham, which was running as a Century serial during the summer of 1882, attracted wide attention, and upon its issue in book form took first place among his published novels. [5]
I began to reflect how novel all this was in a political speech--although what I have quoted was in the nature of a preamble. [9]
It was not really the first attempt at handling a theme belonging to past generations, because I had written for Good Words, about the year 1890, a short novel which I called The Chief Factor, a tale of the Hudson's Bay Company. [11]
You and I read a novel or a poem to help our imaginations to build up palaces, and transport us into the emotional states and the felicitous conditions of the ideal characters pictured in the book we are reading. [6]
Will it survive rapid transit and bridge and Woman's Rights, the modern novel and modern drama, automobiles, flying machines, and intelligence offices; hotel, apartment, and suburban life, or four homes, or none at all? [9]
An interview was published in which the Celebrity had declared that a new novel was to appear in a short time. [9]
Many of these prints, and a rare and authentic map of Wolfe's operations against Quebec are now reproduced in this novel, and may be considered accurate illustrations of places, people, and events. [11]
It was a place for shopping, for a day in a picture exhibition, for an evening in the theatre, no more a part of her existence than a novel or a book of travels: of the life of the town she knew nothing. [4]
Lamb remained there philosophically in the enjoyment of his novel adventure, until a passing watchman rescued him from his ridiculous situation. [4]
By this time Philip's novel had been submitted to a publisher, or, rather, to state the exact truth, it had begun to go the rounds of the publishers. [4]
Of course many persons experienced at least temporary relief from the strong impression made upon their minds by this novel and marvellous method of treatment. [3]
Nor has he particularly chosen for the field of this novel a state of which he is a citizen, and for which he has a sincere affection. [9]
As the greater part of this reading is admitted to be fiction, we have before us the relation of the novel to the common school. [4]
When tea was over, however, and the bridge had begun, her spirits rose; or rather, a new and strange excitement took possession of her that was not wholly due to the novel and revolutionary experience of playing, for money--and winning. [9]
As he betrayed or revealed his personality in his first novel, so in this first effort in another department of literature he showed in epitome his qualities as a historian and a biographer. [6]
Occasionally a novel or a play was the subject of their talk, and then they took a delight in drawing her out, in appealing to a spontaneous judgment unhampered by pedagogically implanted preconceptions. [9]
I was not only struck by the clearness of his views--some of which were distinctly novel, at least to me--but by the felicity and effectiveness with which they were put. [4]
The only occasion on which I have not preceded a very long novel of life in a new field, by a very short one, is in the writing of 'The Judgment House'. [11]
He now walked on for hours undisturbed, free to yield to his longing to collect his thoughts, analyze the new and lofty emotions which had ruled his soul during the past few days, and accommodate himself to his novel and terrible position. [10]
At a turn of the wrist, as it were, the elements of society had taken a perfectly novel shape here. [4]
What is true of the novel is true of all other literature. [4]
This novel view of the matter excited many smiles, and was stored away in many heads to be repeated about the Court as evidence of Tom's originality as well as progress toward mental health. [5]
Not a novel of society, assuredly, for a hermit is not the person to report the talk and manners of a world which he has nothing to do with. [6]
In a novel of mere action and adventure, a lower order of fiction, where all the interest centres in the unraveling of a plot, of course this does not so much matter. [4]
In that group of impassioned individualities, March felt him a refuge and comfort--with his harmless dilettante intention of some day writing a novel, and his belief that he was meantime collecting material for it. [8]
A novel feeling of anger against the foe made him forget his own sorrow. [2]
The experiences are novel, I grant you, and entertaining, too, after a fashion, but they are not judiciously distributed. [5]
It was a novel with a religious problem. [4]
It was so novel in its character that it naturally took a good deal of time to adjust it in such a way as to be fair to both parties. [6]
It was a novel idea, but of course an effect which had been produced once could be produced again. [5]
I experienced a novel discomfiture when Ralph kissed Nancy.... [9]
The position was novel and artistic, but beyond the reach of the artist. [4]
I shipped the novel ("Margaret") to you from here a week ago. [5]
If you do not write a better novel this year, will not the public flout you and jeer you for a pretender? [4]
Unfortunately Honora's novel no longer exists, or the world might have discovered a second Evelina. [9]
Nothing can be more crude as a novel, nothing more disappointing, than "Morton's Hope. [6]
Every novel of mine written until 1893 was published in two or three volumes, and the sale to the libraries was greater than the sale to the general public. [11]
The novel of mere adventure or mere plot, it need not be urged, is of a lower order than that in which the evolution of characters and their interaction make the story. [4]
The fantastic, the melodramatic, the emotional, were huddled here in too marked a prominence; it all seemed, for an instant, like the tale of a woman's first novel. [11]
It is a medicated novel, and if she wished to read for mere amusement and helpful recreation there was no need of troubling herself with a story written with a different end in view. [6]
Do not misunderstand me to mean that common and low life are not fit subjects of fiction, or that vice is not to be lashed by the satirist, or that the evils of a social state are never to be exposed in the novel. [4]
Incidentally the novel may teach, encourage, refine, elevate. [4]

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