182 adjectives to describe fictions

(In Astounding science-fiction, May-June 1938)

(In Detective fiction weekly, Feb. 23, 1929)

He purges the mind of uncleanness, just as he purged contemporary fiction.

This, however, turns out to be a mere fiction; and, it is well understood, that we know of no substances that will produce death at a determinate epoch.

A Syrian monk is said to have seen Mahomet sitting beneath a tree, and to have hailed him as a prophet; there is even a traditional account of an interview with Nestorius, but this must be set aside at once as pure fiction.

The first was full of unprobable romantic fictions, fitting the remoteness of the mission it goes upon; in the present I mean to confine myself nearer to truth as you come nearer home.

Of Goethe's prose works,I mean works of prose fiction,the most considerable are two philosophical novels, "Wilhelm Meister" and the "Elective Affinities.

Another doctor of divinity, speaking of the depraved state of the times, says, "It was the error, or rather folly, of some of the ancients, to think, that in writing the actions of illustrious men, the style must sink, unless they mixed up with it the ornaments, for so they called them, of poetical fiction, or something of this sort; and, consequently, thus blended truth with fable."

He attained success by the publication of "Les Derniers Chouans" in 1829, and he soon established his fame as the leader of realistic fiction.

Moreover, pieces which have been recovered show the wood to be live timber, and not petrified, as the poetic fiction has it.

She read very little contemporaneous fiction, and seldom any criticisms on her own productions.

Girls, if you think I am telling a bit of sensational fiction, I wish you would let me know.

In the first place I determined that the pieces of brief fiction which I included must first of all be not merely good stories, but good short stories.

Mrs. Hannah More has also written several works of religious fiction, and above all, some charming poems; Florio (1786,) and the Blue Stocking, or Conversation.

Then there was a slight breeze between Miss Jenkyns and Captain Brown over the relative merits of Dr. Johnson and the author of "Pickwick Papers"then being published in partsas writers of light and agreeable fiction.

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The diamonds are paste; the pearls are beads of glass filled with shining fishes' scales; and the love which we thought would be a practical reality for life, is nothing but a pleasing fiction, good for its day, and now dead and done with.

But who does not see, except this tinkling cymbal, that in that idle fiction of Genoese ancestry I was answering a fool according to his follythat Elia there expresseth himself ironically, as to an approved slanderer, who hath no right to the truth, and can be no fit recipient of it?

"So long as this entertaining fiction of brother-and-sister is thought worth while," he said with infuriated condescension, "it might be judicious not to indulge in inconsistent and unseemly demonstrations of affection within view of my officers and crew.

By the same token, he sometimes makes odd misentries, pious figurative fictions, in order to save the feelings of Mrs. Minimus, who is auditor-general and comptroller of the household.

Here, for instance, in A Naval Venture (BLACKIE) we do get the real thing, and boys would be well-advised to sample it and see if it is not preferable to the kind of adventurous fiction produced so prolifically for their amusement.

The admirers of romanticism cannot find any better books in historical fiction.

Outfield began to wonder if his pleasant fiction regarding Joel's finger was to lead to unpleasant results, when Mr. March relieved his mind somewhat by suddenly taking interest in the career of his son, who was trying to make an end run inside Dutton with half the scrub hauling, pushing, pulling, shoving him along.

182 adjectives to describe  fictions