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"Three-cornered" Quotes from Famous Books

... dignitary. The outlines beneath the black silk stockings would not have disgraced an athlete. The exquisite neatness of his clothes and person revealed an amount of care which a simple priest, and, above all, a Spanish priest, does not always take with his appearance. A three-cornered hat lay on the front seat of the carriage, which bore the ...

— Eve and David • Honore de Balzac

... with that a wave of keen excitement, for pinned to the dress of the victim—a drunken woman—had been found a three-cornered piece of paper, on which was written, in red ink, and in ...

— The Lodger • Marie Belloc Lowndes

... a little three-cornered note into the girl's hand, at the same time placing in it one of her own most valuable and very few ...

— Wild Kitty • L. T. Meade

... accepted as gifts from her son, and of these, in a little three-cornered library, she had a goodly store in the two languages which she read with equal facility, ...

— Miriam Monfort - A Novel • Catherine A. Warfield

... on with her work, shaking each thing out separately and beating it with her hand; she even stood two pairs of boots under the sofa; the few books, packet of papers, and tiny copy-book of verses she placed triumphantly upon a three-cornered table, calling it a writing and work table, while the other, a round one, she called a dining and tea table. Then she took up the copy-book of verses in both hands and, raising it on a level with her face, looked over the edge at ...

— Virgin Soil • Ivan S. Turgenev

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