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  • That Newcome's type might have been infinitely better presented is indeed most true.

    Writer's Recollections Ward, Mrs Humphry 1918

  • For a ghastly bankruptcy overwhelmed the Bundeleund Bank, and with its failure went all Colonel Newcome's savings, and all Mrs. Mackenzie's money and her daughter's.

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction Various 1910

  • Here the whiskered gentleman, Newcome's father, strode across the room to the table where we sat, and held out his hand to me.

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction Various 1910

  • Newcome's frigid reception, and is hurt by it as by a poisoned arrow shot by the hill tribes in far India; he can not tolerate foul thought or speech, burns hot with righteous wrath against Captain Costigan when he sings a vile song, thundering, "Silence!"

    A Hero and Some Other Folks 1892

  • A flush of something like sombre resentment passed over Newcome's face.

    Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885

  • Elsmere's affectionate, sensitive nature took such things hardly, especially as he knew that Newcome's life was becoming increasingly difficult end embittered.

    Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885

  • Newcome's type might have been infinitely better presented is indeed most true.

    A Writer's Recollections — Volume 2 Humphry Ward 1885

  • And down it swept upon him, a hurricane of words hot from Newcome's inmost being, a protest winged by the gathered passion of years against certain 'dangerous tendencies' the elder priest discerned in the younger, against the worship of intellect and science as such which appeared in Elsmere's talk, in Elsmere's choice of friends.

    Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885

  • He caught Newcome's hand with a kind filial eagerness.

    Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885

  • Newcome's quick eye ran over the companions, he responded stiffly, and his step grew more rapid.

    Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885

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