Sylvester I
Americannoun
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“After I left Sylvester, I kind of felt like I was blacklisted for a long time,” she says.
From The Guardian • Feb. 11, 2019
"Sylvester, I do believe that you're right. I certainly do," he said, staring at Mr. Norton.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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With all respect for your uncle's grim humour," said Sylvester, "I think there was rather a systematic perseverance in the course of mystification involved in such a process of getting rid of a troublesome person.
From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm
"Mr. Sylvester," I began, "are you willing to assert that those finger-prints could have been made by no man in the world except Mr. Swain?"
From The Gloved Hand by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
"Those autumnal storms always make me thoroughly wretched," said Sylvester; "I always feel depressed and ill whilst they are going on; and I think you feel the same, Theodore."
From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm
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