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  • On the same night that Silas Heap’s seventh son, Septimus, is pronounced dead at birth, Silas comes across an abandoned baby in the Forest.

    Magyk by Angie Sage: Questions 2005

  • I think Graves went a bit too overboard on the shell shock, perhaps believing it necessary to make it more obvious for the viewing audience since much of Septimus is internal in the book.

    Mrs. Dalloway the Movie « So Many Books 2004

  • We still tend to chide her, like her friend Charles Sanger, for contemplating the lives of the idle rich; or waver between Lytton Strachey’s belief that the sombre Septimus is the central character of Mrs. Dalloway, and Gerald Brenan’s feeling that he is an awkward intrusion into the design.

    Mrs. Dalloway and Celtic Mythology « So Many Books 2004

  • We still tend to chide her, like her friend Charles Sanger, for contemplating the lives of the idle rich; or waver between Lytton Strachey’s belief that the sombre Septimus is the central character of Mrs. Dalloway, and Gerald Brenan’s feeling that he is an awkward intrusion into the design.

    Mrs. Dalloway and Celtic Mythology Redux « So Many Books 2004

  • Odhainat in the portico, as was Odhainat himself, was known as Septimus

    Historic Girls Elbridge Streeter Brooks 1874

  • "Septimus," she said, "I would rather you would not go to that woman's party."

    Ayala's Angel 1881

  • Whether he was "Septimus," or whether he was "Darts," he had always committed the same atrocities.

    Little Novels Wilkie Collins 1856

  • She called him "Septimus"; she called him "Darts"; and she despised him occasionally for being a "common sailor."

    Little Novels Wilkie Collins 1856

  • "Septimus," she said, I would rather you would not go to that woman's party. "

    Ayala's Angel 1993

  • "Septimus," she said, "in these matters a woman must judge by her own heart, and you see Barbara is a woman now.

    Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales Henry Rider Haggard 1890

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