Theme: class
Pride and Prejudice / Longing and Separation
They were confined for the evening at different tables; and she had nothing to hope, but that his eyes were so often turned towards her side of the ro...
Pride and Prejudice / Social Dynamics
Collins’s triumph, in consequence of this invitation, was complete. The power of displaying the grandeur of his patroness to his wondering visitors, a...
Pride and Prejudice / Civility and Class
“I have no reason, I assure you,” said he, “to be dissatisfied with my reception. He answered me with the utmost civility, and even paid me the compli...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Social Observation
“There is no mystery, my dear madam,” said he, smiling. “The left arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven places. There is no v...
Dracula / Social Dynamics
We once carried out a small matter of renting some chambers for him when he was the Honourable Arthur Holmwood. If you will let me have his lordship’s...
Pride and Prejudice / Colonels Arrival
Darcy had brought with him a Colonel Fitzwilliam, the younger son of his uncle, Lord ----; and, to the great surprise of all the party, when Mr.
Pride and Prejudice / Societal Judgment
She was shown into the breakfast parlour, where all but Jane were assembled, and where her appearance created a great deal of surprise. That she shoul...
Pride and Prejudice / Reputation and Silence
Darcy and his relation Colonel Fitzwilliam, I was ignorant of the truth myself. And when I returned home the ----shire was to leave Meryton in a week ...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Voyage to Yokohama
“Is your honour looking for a boat?” “Have you a boat ready to sail?” “Yes, your honour; a pilot-boat—No. 43—the best in the harbour.” “Does she go fa...
Pride and Prejudice / Marriage and Class
Collins arrived on Tuesday, addressed to their father, and written with all the solemnity of gratitude which a twelve-month’s abode in the family migh...
The War of the Worlds / Urban Dichotomy
The church bells were ringing for evensong, and a squad of Salvation Army lassies came singing down Waterloo Road. On the bridge a number of loafers w...
Pride and Prejudice / Wealth and Matrimony
Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Class and Deceit
James Ryder, upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess of Morcar ...
Pride and Prejudice / Social Hierarchies
Collins; and as they walked down the garden, he was commissioning her with his best respects to all her family, not forgetting his thanks for the kind...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Deductive Curiosity
“Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and tha...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Cultural Encounters
“Well, we are really in America,” thought Passepartout, “and the conductor is a gentleman of the first order!” So muttering, he followed his master. T...
Pride and Prejudice / Class and Perception
They have at least that advantage.” “The country,” said Darcy, “can in general supply but few subjects for such a study. In a country neighbourhood yo...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Hotel Dynamics
The ground floor of the hotel was occupied by a large bar, a sort of restaurant freely open to all passers-by, who might partake of dried beef, oyster...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Social Dynamics
You need not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which would, I s...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Colonial Tensions
it’s you, is it, Englishman?” cried the colonel; “it’s you who are going to play a spade!” “And who plays it,” replied Phileas Fogg coolly, throwing d...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Epicurean Delight
“There is something in what the fellow says about outdoor work,” he remarked, “so I think, Watson, that I must leave you to your papers for a little.”...
Pride and Prejudice / Emotional Transformation
As for Elizabeth, her thoughts were at Pemberley this evening more than the last; and the evening, though as it passed it seemed long, was not long en...
Pride and Prejudice / Social Class Conflict
It was the favourite wish of _his_ mother, as well as of hers. While in their cradles we planned the union; and now, at the moment when the wishes of ...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Identity Transformation
He was the keeper of a low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings tr...
Dracula / Perception and Myth
And that’s all I know for certing.” “Did any one else see anything?” “One of our gard’ners was a-comin’ ’ome about that time from a ’armony, when he s...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Charismatic Intrigue
He was a remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached—evidently the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a great hurry, shouted to...
Dracula / Business Acumen
Is it not so?” “Of course,” I replied; and “such is often done by men of business, who do not like the whole of their affairs to be known by any one p...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Urban Deception
Then with a red head of hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as...
Dracula / Everyday Interactions
The workman took off his coat leisurely and hung it on one of the spikes of the rail, saying something to a policeman who just then sauntered along. T...
Pride and Prejudice / Wickhams Motivations
Wickham’s chief object was unquestionably my sister’s fortune, which is thirty thousand pounds; but I cannot help supposing that the hope of revenging...
Pride and Prejudice / Marriage Aspirations
His being such a charming young man, and so rich, and living but three miles from them, were the first points of self-gratulation; and then it was suc...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Betting Culture
This article made a great deal of noise, and, being copied into all the papers, seriously depressed the advocates of the rash tourist. Everybody knows...
Pride and Prejudice / Inheritance Dynamics
And so, I suppose, they often talk of having Longbourn when your father is dead. They look upon it quite as their own, I dare say, whenever that happe...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Social Dynamics
At last, when nothing else would do, he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be ou...
Pride and Prejudice / Social Tension
Elizabeth had not before believed him quite equal to such assurance; but she sat down, resolving within herself to draw no limits in future to the imp...
Pride and Prejudice / Social Dynamics
I have scarcely any hesitation in saying that she will include you and my sister Maria in every invitation with which she honours us during your stay ...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Trust and Betrayal
But how shall I prevent his departure, if that should turn out to be my last resource?” Fix made up his mind that, if worst came to worst, he would ma...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Family and Obligation
“‘Here we are, Jack,’ says he, touching me on the arm; ‘we’ll be as good as a family to you. There’s two of us, me and my son, and you can have the ke...
Pride and Prejudice / Contrasting Friendships
the principal rooms, satisfied with what the owner said in its praise, and took it immediately. Between him and Darcy there was a very steady friendsh...