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  • Roger is Fosca: strange that her name should echo the Fosco of that other 19th-century sensation, The Woman in White.

    Hamlet; Passion; Beautiful Burnout; Wanderlust Susannah Clapp 2010

  • Fosco, the Tibetan artist, might be included, although Fosco had been often withdrawn and enigmatic, and as for Wiggs Dannyboy, well, he just wasn't sure about Dannyboy.

    La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth 2010

  • Unless she is mistaken, it is Fosco, the calligrapher from the Samye lamasery.

    La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth 2010

  • Fosco, the plump little poem painter, had looked into Alobar's uncomprehending eyes and said:

    La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth 2010

  • Fosco put down his brush, folded his inky hands upon his belly, and regarded Alobar affectionately.

    La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth 2010

  • Fosco withheld any explanation, however, and soon Alobar was winding down the mountainside, pausing every few hundred yards to glance back at the placid walls of Samye.

    La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth 2010

  • As I was leaving the next morning, one of them, Fosco, a painter of poems, whispered to me that I might get what I was looking for from the Bandaloop doctors.

    La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth 2010

  • She found it difficult to concentrate on Count Fosco and Marian with Elspeth fluttering pages only a few feet away.

    Her Fearful Symmetry AUDREY NIFFENEGGER 2009

  • Most interesting of all is the relationship between Fosco and Marian, an unusually capable and dynamic for fiction of this type.

    Archive 2007-12-01 Tim Stretton 2007

  • The novel proceeds to its happy resolution, recounted by a number of narrators, incluing, at the end, Fosco himself.

    Archive 2007-12-01 Tim Stretton 2007

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