We had heard much of Lochbuy's being a great roaring braggadocio, a kind of Sir John Falstaff, both in size and manners; but we found that they had swelled him up to a fictitious size, and clothed him with imaginary qualities.
Why, sir, we may suppose any fictitious character.
Now, as it is impossible to define what are novels and what are not, so as to include one class of fictitious writings and exclude every other, it is impossible to lay down any rule respecting them.
If your uncle were at home he would send his best love, but I will not impose any base fictitious remembrances on you.
Naturally, as in the case of produce, a fictitious business, purely speculative, grows up around the legitimate dealing in stocks and bonds.
Unless a fictitious value be given to such land for purposes of taxation, as sometimes happens with reference to non-resident land-holders, no government could be maintained.
Some time after I collected my Scènes historiques into two volumes a paper noticed it, and accused me of having literally copied the principal scenes of my fictitious historical book from the fine drama by MM.
But at least a conscientious author in assigning a rôle to his historical personages in a fictitious case or rather action should so apply it as not to calumniate them; the realistic school is bolder and has few scruples.
Berryer, there to take coach with her fictitious passport, and, travelling right through France, to go out of it by the Mont Cenis route.
Gregorio's fictitious reputation as a strictly honourable man had helped him, together with the fact that his wife was the ward's own aunt, which was a strong presumption in favour of her honesty as a guardian.
At all events, she was enough of an Italian to know how often in Italy such extraordinary ideas of fictitious treachery find their way into the brains of timid people.
To them we owe the Erotic Elegy, whether personal or mythological, and all the pedantic ornament of fictitious passion which such writings generally display.
But we might naturally ask; Does it not point to an actual correspondence which is lost, the traditional remembrance of which gave rise to its later fictitious reproduction?
To utilise fictitious situations as a vehicle for individual conviction or lofty declamation on ethical commonplace, was considered quite legitimate even in the Augustan age.
He adhered to truth in so far as he did not insert fictitious speeches; he conformed to Greek taste so far as to insert his own.
To Mamurra he was implacably hostile, but satirised him under the fictitiousname of Mentula to avoid offending Caesar.
Whatever view we may hold as to their appearance in the Aeneid, there can he no doubt that in the Odes these deities have a purely fictitious character.
The original idea had suggested itself to him of dramatising episodes in French history without adding anything fictitious whatever; his imagination was allowed to do nothing but vitalise history, and it succeeded most admirably in doing so.
He did not only write his stories, he lived them; his fictitious characters were so vividly present to him that he spoke of them to his acquaintances as if they actually existed.
Read this: "We have included in the constitution rights for the people that are fictitiousand not actual rights.
And the strongest motive in opposing this most obvious betterment is that so much wealth counted in New York is not wealth at all, but fictitious values depending solely on New York remaining New York.
If the pressure alters as the water tank empties, a discontinuity occurs in the trace when the tank is refilled, and a fictitious element may be introduced into the diurnal variation.
For public affairs it was, by the time of Cicero, superseded by the fictitious observation of lightning.
The action of the collector is opposed by the leakage through imperfect insulation, or natural dissipation, and this may introduce a fictitious element into the apparent annual or diurnal variation.
The more our government pays to that company, or their fictitious agent, the more means they will have to carry on their opposition to American commerce and enterprise on this coast.
It is always more or less difficult to trace the course of a false or fictitious object.
A legendary glamour hovers around all the details of this conflict and invests it with fictitious importance.
Kersaint declared that "the credit of England rests upon fictitious wealth: .
This Joseph Sell, dear reader, was a fictitiouspersonage who had just come into my head.
Werther is a fictitious character, and by no means a felicitous one; I am no admirer either of Werther or his author.
I had never even heard of the name, but just at that moment it happened to come into my head; I would write an entirely fictitious narrative, called the Life and Adventures of Joseph Sell, the great traveller.
Durant was probably too respectable a name to be published, and hence the fictitious one.
Have women, conscious of inferior strength, woven this notion of mystery about themselves as a defense, or have men simply idealized them for fictitious purposes?
They seem to take a brutal delight in making it as unpleasant as possible for their fictitious people.
The modern spirit of consideration for fictitious characters that prevails with regard to dress ought to extend in a reasonable degree to their weather.
Also, he forced himself upon the notice of officers and stewards, giving them his name, and making inquiries concerning the non-appearance of fictitious baggage.
You will probably by this course of action obtain, before the crime is committed, exact information with regard to the apartments which so many lovers rent in the city underfictitious names.
How many merchants who have nothing but a fictitious capital shall we admit?
Hence a fictitious name assumed for other purposes.
The poor wretch had got his place under, as it turned out, a fictitious character.
You fancy they are dead or only fictitious characters--mythical representatives of strength, cruelty, stupidity, and lust for blood?
Actions described in novels are judged by a romantic system of morals as fictitious as the actions themselves.
That is exactly what I have been called by readers of your novel; and that, indeed, is exactly what I am, judged by the fictitious and feminine standard of morality.
His erratic career has been the subject of much cheap romancing, but the simple facts are of sufficient interest in themselves without the aid of fictitious embellishment.
There is, however, a gratifying retribution in Davies' treatment of Rochefort, for the work of the latter was fictitious in every part which was not purloined from authors whose knowledge furnished him with all in his treatise which was true.
The fraudulent character of this work, which is itself an altered translation of a fictitious history by Rochefort, is noted by Buckingham Smith (Letter of Hernando de Soto, p.
Real pictures will replace in my brain the fictitious pictures which I compose with great difficulty.
Similar extraordinary entertainments continue the evening, which concludes in a distribution of largesse by the fictitious sultan.
In the last paper, the conclusion of the work is made to depend on a fictitious accident which is supposed to have happened to the author and occasioned his death.
Manfred confessed, in his terror, that Alonzo had been poisoned by his grandfather, and a fictitious will had accomplished his treacherous end.
