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Example sentences for "novels"

Lexicographically close words:
novelettes; novelist; novelistic; novelists; novelization; novelties; novelty; novem; novena; novenas
  1. My story is fully told, but my friend who writes novels insists that I must not lay down the pen until I shall have gathered up what he calls the loose threads, and knitted them into a seemly and unraveled end.

  2. My friend who writes novels tells me that there is no other kind of exercise which so perfectly rests an over-tasked brain as riding on horseback does.

  3. Importance of the Title Nearly everything that has been written on the subject of titles for novels and short-stories applies quite as much to titles for "regular" plays and the photodrama.

  4. When reading novels and short-stories, copy any names that particularly strike you.

  5. All the many detective novels that have since appeared have been successful exactly in proportion as the solution of the mystery has been withheld from the reader until the end of the story.

  6. I trouble you to find such novels in the present day!

  7. Besides, women are more prone to read novels and stories relating to sex problems and the details of sex murder trials and the like which constitute ever-recurring sources of mental erethism.

  8. The reading of novels does well for a while, but the serious-minded man tires of them and then, while they may occupy a couple of hours, they have exactly the same objection as the newspaper.

  9. Most of the successful novels deal with the so-called sex problem, our plays are to a great extent sex problem plays and our newspapers are full of sex crimes and sexual divagations of many kinds.

  10. The reading of novels and newspapers is particularly likely to be a failure.

  11. I put a complete set of my wife's novels in each of the spare bedrooms only yesterday.

  12. The novels were published in the summer of 1613, with a dedication to the Conde de Lemos, the Maecenas of the day, and with one of those chatty confidential prefaces Cervantes was so fond of.

  13. Among modern novels there may be, here and there, more elaborate studies of character, but there is no book richer in individualised character.

  14. By the time Cervantes had got his volume of novels off his hands, and summoned up resolution enough to set about the Second Part in earnest, the case was very much altered.

  15. We do here as we do with novels written in the epistolary form.

  16. In this, as in many other things, they are analogous to the best novels of Smollett or Fielding.

  17. But honest, loyal love need not, I take it, be of that romantic kind which people write about in novels and poetry.

  18. You haven't read so many of their novels as I have.

  19. I suppose it's what the novels have called Melancholy.

  20. They will be found, in plot, incident, and management, to be superior to any other novels ever issued.

  21. This series will no doubt prove to be the most popular series of Novels ever issued in this country, as they are written by one of the most popular Female Novelists that ever lived.

  22. And as a result I read half a dozen novels that, as the Americans say, left me cold, although I must needs give them the credit of having whiled away the time.

  23. Our most up-to-date novels probe the labyrinths of sexual perversity at a shilling a time under the banner of an emancipated virility, and our Sunday newspapers reap the dung-hills for their headlines.

  24. Going to the devil isn't as it's painted in novels by homely old maids and by men too timid to go out of nights.

  25. So, when she, thinking only of a rich marriage with no matter whom, and contrasting herself with the fine women portrayed in the novels and plays, condemned herself as shameless and degraded, she did herself grave injustice.

  26. It is only in detective novels that the heaven-born Vidocq can guess the truth on a few stray clues.

  27. She had published several novels under the nom-de-plume of "Rowena.

  28. Cuthbert nearly fulfilled this requirement, as he read little, save novels and newspapers.

  29. But it must not be inferred that his novels and other literary work have been by any means exclusively concerned with the reconstruction of the social order.

  30. Myra had read plenty of old, rubbishy novels when she was a girl.

  31. Novels were better treated usually than they deserved.

  32. About the nature of the novel Jane was undecided, except that it would be more unlike the novels of Leila Yorke than any novels had ever been before.

  33. It might be in one of your mother's novels or your father's papers.

  34. Those solemn and childish novels about public schools, for instance, written by young men.

  35. I'm afraid I'm hopeless about novels just now, that's the fact.

  36. I wish the execution of the novels better justified the generous view you take.

  37. Many delightful hours were spent together in the evenings listening to one or other of the two poets reading aloud their verse, or parts of the novels they had in process.

  38. He deliberately set himself to write the two novels Wives in Exile and Silence Farm, because he felt W.

  39. But what a literary and artistic gold-mine his letters, papers, manuscripts of unfinished novels have proved to men like Casimir Stryienski and the rest.

  40. It is not through lack of technique that the structure of the France novels is so simple, his tales plotless, in the ordinary meaning of the word.

  41. The feminine characters in his novels and tales are drawn from life.

  42. His books are not so much novels as chronicles of designedly simple structure; his essays are confessions; his confessions, a blending of the naïve and the corrupt, for there are corroding properties in these novel persuasive disenchantments.

  43. The loop that ensnares this quartet of novels is the simple motive of ecclesiastical ambition.

  44. My elders used to read novels aloud; and I can still remember four different passages which I heard, before I was ten, with the same keen and lasting pleasure.

  45. They are issuing under the above general title a Monthly Series of Novels by popular authors at the price of Sixpence.

  46. One of the brightest, wittiest, and most entertaining novels published this spring.

  47. Many of these Novels have never been published before.

  48. It is a romance on realistic lines, and will certainly be one of the most important novels of the last ten years.

  49. It was true, he decided; though the novels he had read had led him to believe otherwise.

  50. Imagine Mr. Butler living up to social etiquette and enunciating his views on Paul Verlaine or the German drama or the novels of D'Annunzio.

  51. His idea, for which the novels were responsible, had been that only formal proposals obtained in the upper classes.

  52. Listed as one of the six best selling novels in England.

  53. One of the most striking novels of the year.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "novels" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.