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  • The Herberts were a silent family with their troubles, but somehow every one who knew them always knew everything that happened.

    Three Lives Stories of The Good Anna, Melanctha and The Gentle Lena Gertrude Stein 1910

  • The Herberts were a silent family with their troubles, but somehow every one who knew them always knew everything that happened.

    Melanctha: Each One as She May: Paras. 1-100 1909

  • 'Do you know, Austin,' said Villiers, as the two friends were pacing sedately along Piccadilly one pleasant morning in May, 'do you know I am convinced that what you told me about Paul Street and the Herberts is a mere episode in an extraordinary history?

    The House of Souls Arthur Machen 1905

  • "Do you know, Austin," said Villiers, as the two friends were pacing sedately along Piccadilly one pleasant morning in May, "do you know I am convinced that what you told me about Paul Street and the Herberts is a mere episode in an extraordinary history?

    The Great God Pan Arthur Machen 1905

  • The group is expected to sell for at least $5 million combined, and the Herberts said they plan to use to proceeds to finance construction of their own private museum and art archive in their hometown of Ghent.

    Pop Art to Take Center Stage at Christie's Kelly Crow 2011

  • The playwright had a chip on his own Caroline shoulder because his mother was a tradesman's daughter, his relative poverty made him an Oxford dropout and he had strained relations with his father's noble patrons, the Herberts.

    A Frugal Family Rich in Satire Paul Levy 2011

  • She speaks as she finds people and it is hard to imagine her not causing some almighty bust-up with the complicated clerical Herberts who shimmer 'round the Papacy and have in recent centuries been better accustomed to ambassadors who were bookish, restrained and maybe just a little dull.

    The U.K.'s Most Terrifying Spinster 2010

  • She speaks as she finds people and it is hard to imagine her not causing some almighty bust-up with the complicated clerical Herberts who shimmer 'round the Papacy and have in recent centuries been better accustomed to ambassadors who were bookish, restrained and maybe just a little dull.

    The U.K.'s Most Terrifying Spinster 2010

  • So, anyway, there I was after lunch, standing in the tiny parking lot in the scorching heat chatting with one of the Herberts.

    Deborah Schoeberlein: Just Call Me Sweetheart 2010

  • She speaks as she finds people and it is hard to imagine her not causing some almighty bust-up with the complicated clerical Herberts who shimmer 'round the Papacy and have in recent centuries been better accustomed to ambassadors who were bookish, restrained and maybe just a little dull.

    The U.K.'s Most Terrifying Spinster 2010

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