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novel as in:  a novel situation

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  • He hesitates at this novel idea.   (source)
  • Kit had no idea that her methods were novel and surprising.   (source)
    novel = new
  • He wanted to find a "novel" item, something that people would wear that was not being sold in the stores.   (source)
    novel = pleasantly new and original
  • Holding the twenty up like it is novel.   (source)
    novel = new and original
  • She both fits in perfectly yet remains slightly novel.   (source)
  • My dad taught this to us by example, but he also looked for novel ways to teach it to others.   (source)
  • Something novel, original, daring and unique must be designed and built if American engineers are to retain their prestige and standing.   (source)
  • And she conceived the idea of a soldiers' center. It was a novel idea for its day and Tante Jans threw all the passion of her nature into it.   (source)
  • Clara grew like a wild plant, despite the recommendations of Dr. Cuevas, who had brought from Europe the novel idea of cold baths and electric shocks for the treatment of the insane.   (source)
  • It was not an isolated view then, and it isn't an isolated or novel view today.   (source)
  • "Yeah, and some of this other stuff," she says, lifting her fresh stack of books for Political Theory 101 and, for her freshman English seminar, The Sentimental Novel.   (source)
  • In fact, it made her look as if she had curves, which was sort of novel.   (source)
  • It was a novel experience not to be the object of people's curious stares and whispered comments.   (source)
  • To the British rank-and-file there was nothing novel about being a soldier.   (source)
  • And yet in its refusal, it passes toward novel order as a primary requisite for important experience.   (source)
  • What a novel idea.   (source)
  • Pipkin and Blackberry were waking, more at the stamping than the voice, which was thin and novel, not striking through their sleep to any deep instinct.   (source)
  • Another forceful personality, Brigadier General Bhangoo, had a more novel way of demonstrating his support for Mortenson.   (source)
  • To counter that, a search is under way for novel approaches, finding an "architecture" different from...   (source)
  • After so many years of being branded a radical revolutionary, to be perceived as a moderate was a novel and not altogether pleasant feeling.   (source)
  • Wall Street Journal called it "an attractive high-risk-high-gain investment with novel growth potential."   (source)
    novel = pleasantly new and original
  • He decided to offer Lorenzo a novel solution: "Next time somebody wants to fight you, pretend you're having a seizure."   (source)
    novel = new and original
  • They wrestled with the novel idea that a Deviation might not be disgusting and evil — not very successfully.   (source)
  • Later I realized what made the experience so novel: He was the first old person I'd spent time with who wasn't in my family.   (source)
  • This was all we could find in each other, this the novel language of our life.   (source)
  • And I'm sure the guy sitting across the table shouted, "Now, that's a novel idea!"   (source)
  • 5 This was a novel undertaking.   (source)
  • Your general design concept is novel but may work.   (source)
  • He had never served in an atomic-powered ship, and as much of the equipment was classified for security a great deal of it was novel to him.   (source)
    novel = new (not previously seen)
  • These were novel concepts to one who had been taught to believe that wolves were not only capable of catching almost anything but, actuated by an insatiable blood lust, would slaughter everything which came within their range.   (source)
    novel = new and original
  • Halting, truncated, the talk bewildered me and at the same time held me enthralled; in addition, the sexual frankness was so utterly novel that I experienced a phenomenon that I hadn't felt since I was about eight years old: my ears were burning.   (source)
  • But Raymond was in his study when I arrived, and remained there until it was time to eat; and my nervousness disappeared in the novel excitement I felt at seeing Yvette, so recently naked, corrupt with pleasure, in the role of wife.   (source)
    novel = new (not experienced before)
  • The children were still enjoying this novel experience, and wondering what was drawing them upwards, when they disappeared into the ship.   (source)
    novel = new and original
  • Of course, there's nothing novel in that.   (source)
  • It was daring, novel, exciting; a sudden display of ultra violet windows through clothes and flesh into the soul…   (source)
  • He sat for some time, meditatively frowning, then picked up his pen and wrote across the title-page: "The author's mathematical treatment of the conception of purpose is novel and highly ingenious, but heretical and, so far as the present social order is concerned, dangerous and potentially subversive."   (source)
    novel = original
  • Surely he had not placed it there, but there her head was and there was Scarlett helplessly sobbing against his thin chest, an exciting and novel sensation for him.   (source)
    novel = new and original
  • You've been thirteen for a month, so I suppose it doesn't seem such a novelty to you as it does to me.   (source)
    novelty = new experience
  • She liked his bringing her there to the eastward vision and the novel tricks of wind and water; it was all as new as they were to each other.   (source)
    novel = new and original
  • There were moments in life when one opened wide one's soul just as one might open wide one's purse if an evening's entertainment were proving unexpectedly costly but also unexpectedly novel.   (source)
  • ...the enemy is crafty and cunning and full of novel treacheries and stratagems.   (source)
  • Once more, this novel method of walking behind the scenes, adopted by the managers of our National Academy of Music, attracted attention; but the managers themselves thought of nothing but their twenty-thousand francs.   (source)
  • Dr. Ashmore, the new Rector of St. Matthew's, had been chosen because he was very "advanced": his sermons were considered bold in thought and novel in language.   (source)
  • Things might be different awake; maybe in looking for inner support he would do well to give Settembrini's novel nature a try—rebellious and critical, though sentimental and bombastic, too.   (source)
  • The Russian gentleman was so delighted with the strawberries that the three racked their brains to find some other surprise for him. But all the racking did not bring out any idea more novel than wild cherries.   (source)
  • The whole thing was so novel and surprising that the General was completely overcome with happiness.   (source)
    novel = pleasantly new and original
  • …always alike, filling all my nights and days, differentiated this period in my life from those which had gone before it (and might easily have been confused with it by an observer who saw things only from without, that is to say, who saw nothing), as in an opera a fresh melody introduces a novel atmosphere which one could never have suspected if one had done no more than read the libretto, still less if one had remained outside the theatre, counting only the minutes as they passed.   (source)
    novel = new and original
  • At the shoe factory she put in a long day, scarcely so wearisome as the preceding, but considerably less novel.   (source)
  • Granted that the great Life Force has hit on the device of the clockmaker's pendulum, and uses the earth for its bob; that the history of each oscillation, which seems so novel to us the actors, is but the history of the last oscillation repeated; nay more, that in the unthinkable infinitude of time the sun throws off the earth and catches it again a thousand times as a circus rider throws up a ball, and that the total of all our epochs is but the moment between the toss and the catch,…   (source)
  • There is something distinctly novel about some of the features.   (source)
  • All its phases were familiar enough to me, every characteristic, all the alternatives which were likely to face me on the high seas--everything! … except the novel responsibility of command.   (source)
    novel = new (not previously encountered)
  • CYRANO (coming nearer, passionately):
      Ay, a new tone!  In the tender, sheltering dusk
      I dare to be myself for once,--at last!
    (He stops, falters):
      What say I? I know not!--Oh, pardon me--
      It thrills me,--'tis so sweet, so novel. . .   (source)
    novel = pleasantly new and original
  • 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.   (source)
    novel = new and original
  • In after years such things became commonplace enough, but then they were in no slight degree novel and startling.   (source)
    novel = pleasantly new and original
  • Several sections of this book and its introduction had appeared in periodical publications, and other parts had been read by Sergey Ivanovitch to persons of his circle, so that the leading ideas of the work could not be completely novel to the public.   (source)
    novel = new and original
  • Some of the briefer articles, which contribute to make up the volume, have likewise been written since my involuntary withdrawal from the toils and honours of public life, and the remainder are gleaned from annuals and magazines, of such antique date, that they have gone round the circle, and come back to novelty again.   (source)
    novelty = quality of being new
  • He pronounced the last truly admirable word with the accent on the last syllable, not as unaware of vulgar usage, but feeling that this novel delivery enhanced the sonorous beauty which his reading had given to the whole.   (source)
    novel = pleasantly new and original
  • However novel and peculiar this testimony of attachment, I did not doubt the accuracy of the interpretation.   (source)
    novel = new and original
  • It was nearly twenty years since he had slept in a bed, and, although he had not undressed, the sensation was too novel not to disturb his slumbers.   (source)
  • To Jack the pleasure of hunting about in the hold, was novel and charming, and very soon a tremendous rattling and clattering heralded his approach with a wheelbarrow, in the highest spirits at his good fortune in having found such a capital thing in which to bring home potatoes.   (source)
  • I had this advantage, at least, in my mode of life, over those who were obliged to look abroad for amusement, to society and the theatre, that my life itself was become my amusement and never ceased to be novel.   (source)
  • Is the circumstance strange or novel?   (source)
  • Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy.   (source)
    novelty = newness
  • The sensations were novel; and regret, with the freshness of our better feelings, mingled with his triumph.   (source)
    novel = new and original
  • Akakiy Akakievitch gazed upon all this as upon a novel sight.   (source)
  • At such times there are always a multitude of men engaged in difficult or novel undertakings, which they follow alone, without caring for their fellowmen.   (source)
  • It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.   (source)
  • Since we don't have a television in our house, I assumed it would be fairly easy to find something entertaining, if only for the novelty.†   (source)
  • I joked with a buddy that if she had possessed a terrible personality, she would have made an excellent heroine in an Ayn Rand novel, but she had a great sense of humor and an extraordinarily direct way of speaking.†   (source)
  • He was looking pale, cutting his eyes between me and Mr. Brunner, like he wanted Mr. Brunner to notice what was going on, but Mr. Brunner was absorbed in his novel.†   (source)
  • The novelty of a pretrial capital defendant on death row seemed to motivate other prisoners to get in Walter's ear every day.†   (source)
  • All descriptions of artwork, architecture, documents, and secret rituals in this novel are accurate.†   (source)
  • It was full of chattering first and second years, and a few older students, who had obviously visited Hogsmeade so often the novelty had worn off "Harry!†   (source)
  • I wonder how long the novelty will last.†   (source)
  • I tired of anything that was not a novelty.†   (source)
  • The scene was novel, the spectators were an unusual element, but the dilemma was familiar enough: how to keep the peace and not humiliate her mother.†   (source)
  • The characters and events in this novel are fictional.†   (source)
  • I am under deadline for this novel.†   (source)
  • After four-to-six weeks of backbreaking slave labor, grueling homework assignments, and humiliating good behavior at school, a package arrived in George's mailbox from the Li'l Wiseguy Novelty Company.†   (source)
  • "An orange," Hannah echoed, pleased with the novelty.†   (source)
  • Some sort of Japanese novelty store.†   (source)
  • Fighting was novelty enough at our school.†   (source)
  • The place looked beautiful and cosy, with overgrown grass everywhere—a novelty to us.†   (source)
  • There was a novelty to it; she was good for morale.†   (source)
  • Jewelers will buy it, or rich folk who want it for the novelty.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it was because I was a novelty here, where novelties were few and far between.†   (source)
  • Two and a half millennia later, Albert Camus not only uses plague, he calls his novel The Plague (1947).†   (source)
  • Once, just once, when I was seven years old, my dad had caught me reading his novel before he had finished revising it.†   (source)
  • The first time you see a bear in the kennel it is a novelty, but when the same ones are there day after day, you wind up naming some of them (old Notch-Ear, Billy-Jo, etc.) There gets to be a too relaxed attitude.†   (source)
  • He had thought it was something old enough to be new, a play whose novelty alone might be enough to see it through a successful Broadway run: a tragedy in five acts.†   (source)
  • The theme of unrequited love was introduced as early as 1774 by Goethe in his novel The Sorrows of Young Werther.†   (source)
  • On her many journeys through the world, Fermina Daza had bought every object that attracted her attention because of its novelty.†   (source)
  • Everyone is in a good mood, giddy with the novelty of the whole activity.†   (source)
  • Norah had walked into each of her affairs with a sense of hope and new beginnings, swept up in the rush of secret meetings, of novelty and surprise.†   (source)
  • Question four: What is the significance of Jack London's choice in making Buck, the dog in The Call of the Wild, the focus of his novel?†   (source)
  • One of Adam's biggest concerns about getting the eye removed was that it might freak the kids out, and here it was, a novelty.†   (source)
  • Sometimes, unable to reach her and unable to reach the people in his novel, he stalked out and walked the summer streets alone.†   (source)
  • After a couple of hours, the novelty of having an American in the house wore off, and the men became fidgety and wandered off to do errands.†   (source)
  • On top of each book was a shiny new Pelikan pen, the Pelicano, every schoolkid's dream, along with cartridges—such a novelty.†   (source)
  • a few days before the Poles left, I had a novel experience.†   (source)
  • There was a new novelty I hadn't seen before: a small model of Cormac Limbs.†   (source)
  • They tried to get him to stay the night with them—they had been on the trail six weeks and a stranger was a welcome novelty.†   (source)
  • The novelty, I thought, would be in having this story of female violation revealed from the vantage point of the victims or could-be victims of rape—the persons no one inquired of (certainly not in 1965): the girls themselves.†   (source)
  • Meredith claims it'll settle down once the novelty wears off for the juniors, but I'm not holding my breath.†   (source)
  • In Part Three of this novel I told the tale of Sabina standing half-naked with a bowler hat on her head and the fully dressed Tomas at her side.†   (source)
  • There had been a long story in the paper this very morning about the novelty wedding of the sports guy and the weather girl, which went into detail about the mentoring relationship between Charlie Baker and the intern he'd taken under his wing during her first shaky days at the station.†   (source)
  • She was still marveling at the novelty of it all when she saw them move to the center of the yard.†   (source)
  • The last word was still a novelty in the speech of white people in 1944.†   (source)
  • I was fascinated with the novelty, with the fluttering Mrs. Cullinan and her Alice-in-Wonderland house.†   (source)
  • He was a brainy kid from a small south Florida town to whom hot showers were something of a novelty, who didn't have the right clothes or much spending money, and at Duke he had a couple of classmates whose father bought them a condominium so they wouldn't have to live in a dorm.†   (source)
  • This was an irresistible novelty, and soon we were laughing at each other, although Boo had refrained from being really mean at anyone's expense.†   (source)
  • He stuck his bookmark in the pages of his novel.†   (source)
  • The local newspapers highlighted the arrests until they grew so commonplace they were no longer a novelty; then they dropped Ira's scrapes with the law into the police log, with the rest of the petty-crime news.†   (source)
  • But eventually the novelty of the course would wear off and, because his academic life was not his only life, the pressure of other obligations or desires would create circumstances where he just would not be able to get an assignment in.†   (source)
  • Grandmama settles herself at the piano and bids us sing along to a rousing round of novelty songs.†   (source)
  • The novelty of newcomers had brought out almost all the men who were not on duty or asleep, so the cellar was crowded and warm.†   (source)
  • Every novel written has to do with choices.†   (source)
  • But novelty wasn't the strangest thing about her.†   (source)
  • I have an enormous and now unrepayable debt to Paul Peters, whose account of his experiences as an SOE wireless operator in occupied Holland urged me to write this novel.†   (source)
  • The table isn't set quite as fancy, which I'm happy about, because it means I'm not such a novelty this week.†   (source)
  • Apart from Knox, and later Leonard Woolf in his novel, A Village in the Jungle, very few foreigners truly knew where they were.†   (source)
  • May the readers and listeners of this novel be likewise blessed, watched over, and protected by their beloved ancestors.†   (source)
  • Lou looked at the titles there and immediately saw every novel and collection of short stories her father had written.†   (source)
  • And yet feeling truly settled was still a novelty.†   (source)
  • Nothing's final—nothing's ever final with these guys—but I think I've got him half snowed into the idea of making a picture out of that Lenormand novel.†   (source)
  • He said he was still getting them, said he thinks we'll both get them until there's more people like us—ones who wake up, anyway—and then maybe the novelty will wear off.†   (source)
  • And so I made a skirt for her, weaving bright colours into the white cotton that she might like it, and so she did for a time, wearing it gladly, twirling it about her as she spun round and round; but when the novelty had worn off, she became fractious and wanted to tear it from her.†   (source)
  • We walked up and down the quaint streets filled with novelty shops and tourists.†   (source)
  • There was a quality of sameness to the noise in the barracks as though the novelty of perversion was wearing off.†   (source)
  • New prisoners are largely of two kinds—there are those who for shame, fear or shock wait in fascinated horror to be initiated into the lore of prison life, and there are those who trade on their wretched novelty in order to endear themselves to the community.†   (source)
  • The novelty will do much to relieve the monotony.†   (source)
  • A few years ago, however, one of our number came to the rescue with a novel idea; he was a young fellow, a native of our valley, absolutely trustworthy and in fullest sympathy with our aims; but, like all the valley people, he was denied by nature the chance that comes more fortunately to those from a distance.   (source)
  • He had seen, for the first time in his life, the face of a girl whose cheeks were not the colour of chocolate or dogskin, whose hair was auburn and permanently waved, and whose expression (amazing novelty!) was one of benevolent interest.   (source)
  • He arranged for a number of novel features.   (source)
  • The porter took up his candle again, but slowly, for he was surprised by such a novel idea.   (source)
  • The situation was novel, strange to him.   (source)
  • He too returned to his old life at school and all his novel enterprises fell to pieces.   (source)
  • But the first of these was the more novel to him.   (source)
  • To Carrie, the sound of the little bells upon the horses-cars, as it was novel.   (source)
  • It was novel, strange, somehow exhilarating, and yet disturbing.   (source)
  • There was a sharp turn at every twenty or thirty yards, and at each turn a novel effect.   (source)
  • The night in prison was novel and interesting enough.   (source)
  • ...he who ponders over the perfume of some novel flower—   (source)
    novel = pleasantly new and original (not previously encountered)
  • Individualism *a is a novel expression, to which a novel idea has given birth.   (source)
    novel = new and original
  • We have penetrated into this community, full of those old practices which seem so novel to-day.   (source)
  • In him, therefore, the scene in the blockhouse awakened no very novel feelings.   (source)
  • The interior of the "castle" was as faultlessly neat as its exterior was novel.   (source)
  • Thus democratic nations have neither time nor taste to go in search of novel opinions.   (source)
  • The house grew accustomed to the novel ways of M. Fauchelevent.   (source)
  • He was the prey of a throng of novel sensations.   (source)
  • The second handling-machine was now completed, and was busied in serving one of the novel contrivances the big machine had brought.   (source)
  • In Gopher Prairie the only ardent new topics were prohibition, the place in Minneapolis where you could get whisky at thirteen dollars a quart, recipes for home-made beer, the "high cost of living," the presidential election, Clark's new car, and not very novel foibles of Cy Bogart.   (source)
  • The spectacular quality of my sensations was curious and novel, but for all that I was heartily tired and angry long before he had done his eating.   (source)
  • Shefford experienced again a feeling that had been novel to him—and it was that he was loose, free, unanchored, ready to veer with the wind.   (source)
  • This drifting from conjectures and broodings into a vague sort of enchanting reverie was a novel experience for Milly.   (source)
  • Phillotson was not really thinking of the arithmetic at all, but of her, in a novel way which somehow seemed strange to him as preceptor.   (source)
  • The only time she could remember ever having been alone like this was once when she had missed her maid and her train at a place outside of Versailles—an adventure that had been a novel and delightful break in the prescribed routine of her much-chaperoned life.   (source)
  • "Lord!" said Mr. Marvel, looking nervously about him, trying to count the money in his pockets by his unaided sense of touch, and full of a strange and novel idea.   (source)
  • She helped Rosemary choose a diamond for her mother, and some scarfs and novel cigarette cases to take home to business associates in California.   (source)
  • So novel?   (source)
  • In London nothing interested her but the theatres and the shops; and she found the theatres less exciting than the Paris cafes chantants where, under the blossoming horse-chestnuts of the Champs Elysees, she had had the novel experience of looking down from the restaurant terrace on an audience of "cocottes," and having her husband interpret to her as much of the songs as he thought suitable for bridal ears.   (source)
  • These kept their balance best in that environment, and what tone there was, beyond the apartment's novel organization of light values, came from them.   (source)
  • The following morning the train pulled safely into Montreal and they stepped down, Hurstwood glad to be out of danger, Carrie wondering at the novel atmosphere of the northern city.   (source)
  • He remembered every detail of the previous day and he knew that a perfectly novel experience had befallen him, that he had received an impression unlike anything he had known before.   (source)
    novel = pleasantly new and original
  • Each, in truth, felt that interest in the other which similarity of age, condition, mutual comeliness, and their novel situation would be likely to inspire in the young and ingenuous.   (source)
    novel = new and original
  • The reflections of the daughter were less melancholy, and mingled with a pleased astonishment at the novel scenery she met at every turn in the road.   (source)
  • Yet it is not wonderful that these conceptions are indefinite, since they have their origin in sources so utterly novel.   (source)
  • This Constitution, which may at first sight be confounded with the federal constitutions which preceded it, rests upon a novel theory, which may be considered as a great invention in modern political science.   (source)
  • Bathsheba's adventurous spirit was beginning to find some grains of relish in these highly novel proceedings.   (source)
    novel = pleasantly new and original
  • Hard-Heart listened like one in whom a train of novel ideas had been excited by the reasoning of the other.   (source)
    novel = new and original
  • Lastly, he was to wind them up by appearing in his favourite character of Mr. William Button, of Tooley Street, in 'the highly novel and laughable hippocomedietta of The Tailor's Journey to Brentford.'   (source)
  • Duncan obeyed, and soon found himself in a situation to command a view which he found as extraordinary as it was novel.   (source)
  • 'The daughter of a gentleman, though—ha—himself at one time comparatively far from affluent—comparatively—and herself reared in—hum—retirement, need not of necessity find this position so very novel.'   (source)
  • He looked about the room at the novel hangings and ingenious furniture with which she had surrounded herself.   (source)
  • To have all those noble Romans alive before me, and walking in and out for my entertainment, instead of being the stern taskmasters they had been at school, was a most novel and delightful effect.   (source)
  • I became aware of the figure of a youth about my own height, and habited in a white kerseymere morning frock, cut in the novel fashion of the one I myself wore at the moment.   (source)
    novel = pleasantly new and original
  • 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.   (source)
    novel = new and original
  • It was at length broken by the trapper, who, having been long accustomed to similar sights, felt less of its influence, or, rather, felt it in a less thrilling and absorbing manner, than those to whom the scene was more novel.   (source)
  • Thus Roger Chillingworth scrutinised his patient carefully, both as he saw him in his ordinary life, keeping an accustomed pathway in the range of thoughts familiar to him, and as he appeared when thrown amidst other moral scenery, the novelty of which might call out something new to the surface of his character.   (source)
    novelty = newness (in perspective)
  • The foundation of New England was a novel spectacle, and all the circumstances attending it were singular and original.   (source)
    novel = new and original
  • She had little Laura Martin home for the holidays; and my belief is, she made a confidante of her, and promised that Laura should come and live with her when she was married, and gave Laura a great deal of information regarding the passion of love, which must have been singularly useful and novel to that little person.   (source)
  • Darya Alexandrovna watched this luxury which was novel to her, and as a good housekeeper used to managing a household—although she never dreamed of adapting anything she saw to her own household, as it was all in a style of luxury far above her own manner of living—she could not help scrutinizing every detail, and wondering how and by whom it was all done.   (source)
  • Let it suffice, that among spendthrifts I out-Heroded Herod, and that, giving name to a multitude of novel follies, I added no brief appendix to the long catalogue of vices then usual in the most dissolute university of Europe.   (source)
  • …of the first of September, after his interview with Kutuzov, Count Rostopchin had returned to Moscow mortified and offended because he had not been invited to attend the council of war, and because Kutuzov had paid no attention to his offer to take part in the defense of the city; amazed also at the novel outlook revealed to him at the camp, which treated the tranquillity of the capital and its patriotic fervor as not merely secondary but quite irrelevant and unimportant matters.   (source)
  • At last he reached the summit, and a wide and novel prospect burst upon him with an effect almost like that of the Pacific upon Balboa's gaze.   (source)
  • The flash was almost too novel for its inexpressibly dangerous nature to be at once realized, and they could only comprehend the magnificence of its beauty.   (source)
  • This new pause was to enable Deerslayer to survey the singular edifice, which was of a construction so novel as to merit a particular description.   (source)
  • The circle of novel ideas is, however, soon terminated; the touch of experience is upon them, and the doubt and mistrust which their uncertainty produces become universal.   (source)
  • Then, as eye met eye, an expression of novel intelligence passed from one to the other, indicating that to them, at least, the appearance of this extraordinary tenant of the pavilion was as unexpected as it was incomprehensible.   (source)
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  • She was in the latter stages of the novel, where the young priest was doubting his faith after meeting a strange and elegant woman.   (source)
    novel = book with a made-up story
  • The author of that novel was so thin, so frail, so comparatively optimistic!   (source)
  • And the film was based on a novel by Philip K. Dick, one of Halliday's favorite authors.   (source)
  • He raised the subject of the novel that the farmer's son was reading, thinking that, he wrote, "if she liked books, she must understand the mind and hardship of human life."   (source)
  • He spent the soggy afternoons working on homework projects and reading a cowboy novel.   (source)
  • Back at home they drew the curtains and read, with disapproval, with relish, with avidity and glee — even the ones who'd never thought of opening a novel before.   (source)
  • Ruefully Josh says, "The guys from the graphic-novel club are going as different fantasy-book characters."   (source)
  • When I was a girl I wasn't so much as allowed to look at a novel.   (source)
  • Late one evening she took her first novel, Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, from Ma's bookshelf and read about love.†   (source)
  • One of their most heated debates in that first year was over a novel.†   (source)
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  • The novel was released in the summer of that following year, 1989, and the publisher sent me on a five-city book tour.†   (source)
  • Give him long enough and he'll write a novel.†   (source)
  • Handwritten in neat block letters on a page torn from a novel by Nikolay Gogol, it read: S.O.S. I NEED YOUR HELP.†   (source)
  • The first novel sold about six copies, but it got great reviews.†   (source)
  • This creature did not belong at a wedding but on the cover of a Stephen King novel.†   (source)
  • All of them were deep thinkers with novel points of view, and I felt that I was opening my mind through the exchanges.†   (source)
  • Admittedly, it takes a certain amount of discipline to sit in a chair and read a novel, even a seasonal one, when a beautifully wrapped present waits within arm's reach and the only witness is a one-eyed cat.†   (source)
  • Lale described it as like something out of a le Carre novel.†   (source)
  • Fortunately the crime novel she was translating from German was absorbing, a welcome distraction.†   (source)
  • He ate celery while he read a paperback novel.†   (source)
  • This is not so illogical if you realize three things: that a stint in India will beat the restlessness out of any living creature; that a little money can go a long way there; and that a novel set in Portugal in 1939 may have very little to do with Portugal in 1939.†   (source)
  • When I said Montgomery, they launched into a lecture about Monroeville's prominence as a result of Harper Lee and her famous novel.†   (source)
  • It was raining a lot and I was riding my bike to school to avoid having to take the bus, and each day when I'd get home, I'd retreat to my room, lose myself in a novel, and simply forget about collecting eggs.†   (source)
  • When, after two months, she reaches the novel's last line, she flips back to the first page and starts again.†   (source)
  • I mean, you read a novel that has the word 'spam' in it, and you know where that word comes from, right?†   (source)
  • He'd written a novel called Great Circle it was about ending up where one started.†   (source)
  • It turned, like a hidden passage from some mystery novel.†   (source)
  • Harry closed his eyes against the now blazing evening sky as the newsreader said, '— and finally, Bungy the budgie has found a novel way of keeping cool this summer.†   (source)
  • This is a murder mystery novel.†   (source)
  • She was reading a romance novel.†   (source)
  • When Matt called her Jo, it reminded her of Little Women, and although she was pretty sure Matt had never read the Alcott novel, secretly she was pleased to be associated with a character so strong and sure of herself.†   (source)
  • The couple cruised the neighborhood with the air of an entirely novel species—as if they were the first couple in New Hampshire to have given birth.†   (source)
  • "Done?" he asked, closing the novel he was reading.†   (source)
  • This morning if you had told me I'd be reading a romance novel to Dean Holder in my bed tonight, I'd tell you that you were crazy.†   (source)
  • The stack of folios before them looked like loose pages from a small paperback novel.†   (source)
  • And maybe ....you could do a novel-menu restaurant ....foods from fiction ....sandwiches from Lawrence Sanders murder mysteries, just desserts from Nora Ephron's Heartburn.†   (source)
  • Fifty pages had been written, but I still didn't think of it as a novel.†   (source)
  • I'm thinking she found a good shrink, or maybe she published that novel she's been writing since the earth cooled.†   (source)
  • When I am dead, and the Marshalls are dead, and the novel is finally published, we will only exist as my inventions.†   (source)
  • He's assisting me with my novel.†   (source)
  • I thought of sitting in a tub full of cold water reading a novel.†   (source)
  • They had no novelists-and would not have permitted anyone to read a novel if one were handy.†   (source)
  • The front seat was almost as big as Eleanor's bed, and the back-seat was an Erica Jong novel just waiting to happen.†   (source)
  • I read a bit of the latest Stephen King novel, showered and threw on a pair of jeans and a polo, then read for another couple of hours before glancing at the clock and realizing only twenty minutes had passed.†   (source)
  • But even so—the whole novel is in some ways about that moment.†   (source)
  • Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a novel about the Secret Annex.†   (source)
  • The Grapes of Wrath, the classic novel about the Dust Bowl and the migration of Oklahoma farmers to California, ends with death and a glimmer of renewed life.†   (source)
  • My dating life seems to rotate around three types of men: preppy Ivy Leaguers who believe they're characters in a Fitzgerald novel; slick Wall Streeters with money signs in their eyes, their ears, their mouths; and sensitive smart-boys who are so self-aware that everything feels like a joke.†   (source)
  • As he'd requested, I did not use Norman Bowker's name, instead substituting the name of my novel's main character, Paul Berlin.†   (source)
  • Or, he'd say, "I'll show you a mystery novel in which the first two letters of the first word of the first chapter hold the secret to the book!"†   (source)
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