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As William Plomer once felt it necessary to remind highbrow readers, 'To be a man of the world, to be acquainted with all sorts of different people, to be tolerant, to be curious, to have a capacity for enjoyment, to be the master of a clear and unaffected prose style -- these are advantages.'
Style in Fiction 2009
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"And a lovely day it has been, soft, warm and sunny," records the clergyman Francis Kilvert in Kilvert's Diary 1870-79, selected by William Plomer Jonathan Cape.
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The ground was still wet and shining with the rain, and the gigantic shadow of the gate projected by the moonlight was cast far up the avenue in huge bars upon the shining ground, he reports in Kilvert's Diary 1870-79, selected and edited by William Plomer Jonathan Cape.
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"And a lovely day it has been, soft, warm and sunny," records the clergyman Francis Kilvert in Kilvert's Diary 1870-79, selected by William Plomer Jonathan Cape.
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The Plomer family recipe flavours the biscuits with caraway seeds, nutmeg, sack or sherry and rosewater.
Archive 2007-05-01 2007
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The Plomer family recipe flavours the biscuits with caraway seeds, nutmeg, sack or sherry and rosewater.
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He novels are: Waiting for Leila (1981, which won the Mofolo-Plomer Prize), Kafka's Curse (1997, winner of the Herman Charles Bosman Prize) and Bitter Fruit (2003).
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Chief-Justice of the Common Pleas; and Plomer, who, near twenty years later, successfully conducted in the same high court the defence of
The Ontario High School Reader A.E. Marty
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Bench; the more humane and eloquent Dallas, afterward Chief Justice of the Common Pleas; and Plomer, who, near twenty years later, successfully conducted in the same high court the defense of Lord
The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III Various 1885
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Plomer, beyond which loomed the misty blue outline of Captain Cook's
Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 Louis Becke 1884
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