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Example sentences for "novelty"

Lexicographically close words:
novelistic; novelists; novelization; novels; novelties; novem; novena; novenas; novi; novice
  1. Sam, after sitting for some time, regardless of the novelty of the scene; his hands in his pockets, plunged in the deepest thought.

  2. Several cases of the first appearance of a horticultural novelty have been recorded: this has always happened in the same way; it appeared suddenly and unexpectedly without any definite relation to previously existing variability.

  3. It came to Bensington's mind with a complete novelty of realisation that in all probability the man had been killed and eaten, at least in part, by the monster that now lay dead there in the darkling.

  4. The feeling had been lurking in her mind during the whole day, but the novelty of all she had seen had distracted her attention.

  5. She was not sorry, however, when her mamma proposed ordering the carriage; for the novelty of everything did not quite make up for the restraint she was under.

  6. You are at least not a novelty in human wisdom, whatever you may be in character; for you are far from the only one proud of being ignorant, and pitying those who are not so.

  7. Novelty was the darling of wit, and antiquity of learning.

  8. To this day, when I look upon the fat black letters in the primer, the puzzling novelty of their shapes and the easy good-nature of O and Q and S seem to present themselves again before me as they used to do.

  9. For several days they travelled together, and despite the wearisome way the child found much novelty and interest in the wandering life.

  10. She will be a novelty to our neighbourhood and an animation of the Hall.

  11. Her station was among the beeches on the flank of the boy's return; and while waiting there the novelty of her waiting to waylay anyone--she who had played the contrary part!

  12. They "came with freshness and alacrity to the business; and being encouraged both by the novelty of these subjects and by the success of their arms, would naturally ingraft some new kind of fruit on the ancient stock.

  13. It thus appears that the orthography of the name adopted by his son, and which will be found to have been so much the subject of dispute, was not a novelty to the family.

  14. Holland has the beauties of novelty to a stranger, as being so much different from all the other parts of the world; but not those of diversity, for every part of it is like another.

  15. You have doubtless many times experienced this fact, and you know that when a thing has the interest of novelty you work harder upon it.

  16. By saying that the novel effects of imagination come by way of industry, we do not mean to imply that one should strain after novelty and eccentricity.

  17. None of the younger generation can realize the sense of novelty it produced in us who were then in our prime.

  18. Then again there is the marvellous exuberance and novelty of the fauna and flora.

  19. Five hundred feet covered, old Dobbin seemed to enjoy the novelty of the occasion, and kept up a very fair gait.

  20. Puzzled spectators wondered if the strange appearance above was part of some new novelty change in the programme.

  21. Andy had heard one of the workers describe to a new hand all the excitement, bustle and novelty attending a jump from one town to another.

  22. The Woman's Declaration of Independence" issued from those conventions startled and amused her, and she laughed heartily at the novelty and presumption of the demand.

  23. The one who escorted us asked several questions, and discovered, by our accent, that we were foreigners, a sufficient excuse for the novelty of our proceeding.

  24. The novelty and solemnity of the surroundings roused all our religious emotions and thrilled every nerve in our being.

  25. The large house, the society of so many girls, the walks about the city, the novelty of everything made the new life more enjoyable than I had anticipated.

  26. The ludicrous is wearing away, and disgust is taking the place of pleasurable sensations, arising from the novelty of this new phase of hypocrisy and infidel fanaticism.

  27. Then, too, the novelty of housekeeping had passed away, and much that was once attractive in domestic life was now irksome.

  28. There was no novelty in this and Chares became the target for good-natured reproaches, which he received smilingly.

  29. In 1746 A Bowl of Punch appears as a novelty in the bill of a corporation dinner.

  30. But, to be sure, tents and warriors are no novelty on Surrey commons, as will be shown in the next chapter.

  31. But she came forward without hesitation after the first moment, pulling off her hood, and stood before her visitor, blushing, in a way that perhaps Mrs. Carleton looked at as a novelty in her world.

  32. The main elements of novelty in Bridge, as distinguished from Whist, may be classed under the following heads:-- 1.

  33. The novelty of the design probably contributed a large share of this result.

  34. He has not, with hurried enthusiastic zeal, which often defeats its end, pushed forwards any novelty that struck him at the moment, but he has given his consent and countenance to any proposal backed by respectable persons.

  35. From the sensations which I experienced I can well imagine what those are, which travellers in unexplored countries must feel at every step—at every novelty which comes under their view.

  36. I had never seen a man of his class before, and to me the charm of novelty and romance surrounded him with a sort of glory.

  37. He had been so long excluded from this form of social life that it had all the charm of novelty to him; but the least wish of his wife was enough to change all this, and he became only anxious to get her safely home again.

  38. The novelty has worn away, and this profusion of roses satiates me.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "novelty" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.