Sentence examples for old novels from inspiring English sources

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Old novels would sometimes use the verb "ejaculate" with them, which we found hilarious at school.

King said he wanted to stop writing before he had to recycle his old novels.

Bell: "Why did old novels all end with 'And they lived happily for ever after?"' Nell: "Because the New Woman was not known then".

No one bothers to pick up the old novels, so they're scattered all over, as we know, backing up in storm drains.

Much of the time she saunters, strides, leans forward, shuffles and kicks, or stands quite still on long, well-formed (as they said in old novels) legs.

I had filled up on old novels and movies, and somehow thought that this is how it would be -- all glamor and thrilling sophistication.

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What's more, it wasn't just any old novel.

O.K. "The Exorcist" — this old novel he'd found in his dormitory lounge.

O.K. "The Exorcist"—this old novel he'd found in his dormitory lounge.

Currently I'm reading this old novel written in medieval Japan by Murasaki Shikibu.

They reminded me of fallen women from an old novel; I had never seen prostitutes acting ashamed before.

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