"Brand-new" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the Taming of the Shrew. As few, I hope, are prepared to follow the fantastic and confident suggestions of every unquiet and arrogant innovator who may seek to append his name to the long scroll of Shakespearean parasites by the display of a brand-new hypothesis as to the uncertain date or authorship of some passage or some play which has never before been subjected to the scientific scrutiny of such a pertinacious analyst. The more modest design of the present study has in part been already indicated, and will explain as it proceeds ...
— A Study of Shakespeare • Algernon Charles Swinburne
... the young Millennium's years, Whereof they loudly boomed the birth, Promising by the lips of seers New Heavens and a brand-new Earth, We find the advertised attraction In point of novelty is small, And argument by force of action Would seem ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, March 17, 1920 • Various
... brand-new Dresden clock on the mantel-piece chimed the three-quarters. The post leaves at eleven. I took up the pen ...
— The Reflections of Ambrosine - A Novel • Elinor Glyn
... a little delay, the reformed hobo came into the room. Sure enough, he was holding a brand-new five-dollar bill in his extended hand, and there was a look of actual pleasure to be seen ...
— The Chums of Scranton High Out for the Pennant • Donald Ferguson
... Constance had asked him whether he would not like to begin cycling. He received the suggestion with careless good-humour. At Rivenoak, Constance returned to it, insisted upon it, and, as he had little to do, Dyce went into Hollingford for lessons; in a week's time he could ride, and, on a brand-new bicycle of the most approved make, accompanied his nominally betrothed about the country ways. Constance evidently enjoyed their rides together. She was much more amiable in her demeanour, more cheerful ...
— Our Friend the Charlatan • George Gissing
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