1 They made a specialty of sandwich-salad-coffee lap suppers, and they regarded Carol as their literary and artistic representative.
2 The others tried to look literary.
3 She felt triumphant and rather literary.
4 The rest of the association dropped into the theater every evening, and were literary and superior.
5 All members of the social, financial, scientific, literary, and sporting sets were at No.
6 The Commercial Club issued a booklet prepared by a great and expensive literary person from a Minneapolis advertising agency, a red-headed young man who smoked cigarettes in a long amber holder.
7 She was talking "books" with Mr. Gouvernail and trying to draw from him his opinion upon current literary topics.
8 The suave priest, her uncle, seated in his arm-chair, would hold the page at arm's length, read it smiling and approve of the literary form.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 9 By hell, I think that's a good literary expression.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 10 Though there was nothing wrong in these stories and though their intention was sometimes literary they were circulated secretly at school.
11 It was true that he wrote a literary column every Wednesday in The Daily Express, for which he was paid fifteen shillings.
12 But there is no literary public in England for anything except newspapers, primers, and encyclopaedias.
13 I myself used to have literary ambitions, but I gave them up long ago.
14 She ran after painters and novelists; but she did not charm them; and her bold attempts to pick up and practise artistic and literary talk irritated them.
15 You have moral and literary tastes in common.