George Eliot

Anyway, the books I got were Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen and Middlemarch by George Eliot, which is one heck of a tome I can tell you.

rouflaquette Diary Entry rouflaquette 2006

It is in this region that nature with lavish hand bestows her flowers, which, unlike their compeers in other lands, are not born to waste their fragrance on the desert air or to die "like the bubble on the fountain," but rather (to paraphrase George Eliot's lofty words) to die, and live again in fats and oils, made nobler by their presence.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 Various

If there is any meaning in that splendid passage from George Eliot, that is so trite because it is so fine,

Our Unitarian Gospel 1879

We are so beyond enough, actually, but to paraphrase George Eliot, "It's never too late to be the country -- the awake and moral citizenry -- we might have been."

Sacramento for Democracy 2010

In addition to explosive material, the packages contain books such as George Eliot's "The Mill on the Floss" and Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations."

Postscript 2010 Stephen Lowman 2010

"George Eliot" is unmentionable, but clearly has to be mentioned--so she winds up being demoted to Lewes' maybe-paramour.

The unmentionable 2010

Some of them, however, such as George Eliot and Charlotte Brontë, created works of lasting acclaim and value, and even earned that contested accolade,

Feminist Aesthetics Korsmeyer, Carolyn 2008

He wants us all to be novelists, such as George Eliot, or historians such as C. Vann Woodward, or, presumably, psychoanalysts and psychohistorians such as himself.

An Exchange on Psychohistory Mazlish, Bruce 1973

"'George Eliot' (Mary Ann Evans), the gifted Warwickshire authoress, who wrote 'Adam Bede' and several other popular works."

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 29, 1919 Various

"George Eliot" was revealed, and Joe Liggens found himself treated as an impostor by those who had thrust upon him undeserved honors.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 Various