10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MALEFACTRESS»
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malefactress in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
malefactress and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Nourishing Vocabulary: Balancing Words and Learning
augured contrivance demeanor abashed culprit ascended malefactress manifest
magistrate ponderous portal pillory edifice flagrant ensue evanescent illustrious
inauspicious indubitably infamy infliction impropriety ignominy quaint repute ...
Shira Lubliner, Judith A. Scott, 2008
2
King, "By the grace of God.": An historical romance
... instrument in the hands of the Lord to deliver up the malefactress he had
brought into the camp this morning. " ' What malefactress V he asked, and I saw
the veins in his forehead beginning to swell. I THE EXAMINATION. 233.
3
Balzac: A Nineteenth-Century Novelist with Lessons for America
... pure wickedness; it is excessively hard to render it human; and if the difficulty is
not increased, it is certainly not much lessened by the artist's determination to
represent the malefactress as undiscovered and even unsuspected throughout .
4
Britains Historical Drama; a Series of National Tragedies ...
Hnnm'r. Blessed saints, Preserve me pure from sin !—what do I see? A branded
malefactress ! a false woman, With her vile wantonness stampt on her brow In
characters of shame! ELGIVA. No, no, I am No wanton—no, by you bright heaven
!
J ..... F ..... Pennie, 1832
5
Memoirs of the illustrious House of Medici, from Giovanni, ...
honours due to a sovereign, Bianca with the ignominy and contempt of a
malefactress, and a beggar. Her body was carried upon men's shoulders, and
thrown into the receptacle appropiated for the remains of the meanest of the
people.
Mark NOBLE (Rector of Barming.), 1797
6
The Works of Honoré de Balzac ...
... not increased, it is certainly not much lessened by the artist's determination to
represent the malefactress as undiscovered and even unsuspected throughout.
Balzac, however, has surmounted these difficulties with almost complete success
.
Teachers, girls, servants, and Madame herself, seemed to regard me as if I were
guilty of some crime, and shunned me as a malefactress. Vainly I denied having
done any wrong when at times my schoolmates would question me. It was not to
...
Mary Elizabeth Braddon, 1870
8
The Journal of the Michigan State Medical Society
... have accused the moon of influences on events in nature of which she is
innocent, and compares the role the moon is made to play with the role of the cat
accused of having broken dishes, while the kitchen maid is the malefactress.
9
Belgravia, a London magazine, conducted by M.E. Braddon
Teachers, girls, servants, and Madame herself, seemed to regard me as if I were
guilty of some crime, and shunned me as a malefactress. Vainly I denied having
done any. wrong when at times my schoolmates would question me. It was not to
...
Belgravia, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, 1866
... pure wickedness ; it is excessively hard to render it human ; and if the difficulty
is not increased, it is certainly not much lessened by the artist's determination to
represent the malefactress as undiscovered and even unsuspected throughout.
Honoré de Balzac, George Saintsbury, 1898
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