| 单词 | dime novel |
| 例句 | She slipped some dime novels from behind her back. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I found that the dime novels were easier stuff because they had simple words and ideas. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z She touched her precious pile of dime novels. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I rounded up some cutlery and found the table, which had been buried under a stack of dime novels and Shakespeare’s plays. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Rarely did a murder involve the mysterious elements of dime novels and mystery stories. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z One of Thompson's critics has called him without disparagement "a dime novel Dostoevsky" and there are elements of traditional tragedy in Lou's story of small-town desperation and madness. The Killer Inside Me 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z His tales of youth led astray and destroyed by smut are as visceral and exciting as the very dime novels by such authors as George Thompson that Comstock often burned. Utah and the war on porn: Our long national history of condemning “obscenity” as public enemy #1 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z “Like the Kid, Hansen revels in the lingo of tabloid and tale, of dime novel and detective story.” Paperback Row 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z No wonder the dime novels and yellow press of the day exaggerated the facts surrounding the western gangs and gunfighters: Too often those facts won’t stand on their own. Behind the Legend of Butch Cassidy 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z Yet Lansdale has pulled out all the stops to deliver a rip-roaring tale completely in keeping with dime novel traditions and the cinematic hyperbole of "Blazing Saddles" or "Django Unchained." 'Paradise Sky' a rip-roaring tale about Western legend Nat Love 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Rather, it reads as an epic prank, a dime novel grown to the size of one of those limestone discs once used for trade in Micronesia. Books of The Times: Rick Moody?s ?Four Fingers of Death? Dips Into Absurd 2010-08-16T22:24:00Z He styled himself after the Depression-era outlaws who filled the dime novels he grew up reading. A Septuagenarian Bank Robber Goes from The New Yorker to the Big Screen 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Yet self-consciousness is also a hallmark of this genre; Douglas Fairbanks’s would-be cowboy reads dime novels in the 1917 film “Wild and Woolly.” Review: The Sidekick as Hero in ‘The Ballad of Lefty Brown’ 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z In an earlier era long ago, "Becoming Superman" would be part of the penny press or dime novels, sold to kids and young adults alongside "The Horatio Alger Myth." Comics and sci-fi powerhouse J. Michael Straczynski has an incredible origin story of his own 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z By the 1880s, though, the genre was dominated by the newly translated works of French detective story pioneer Émile Gaboriau and by American dime novels featuring such masters of disguise as Old Sleuth. ‘Blockbuster!’: The strange tale of the best-selling crime novel of the 19th century 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z These headlines then became fodder for plots in popular dime novel fiction, further linking the image of an abortionist with a melodramatically drawn picture of "an atrocious woman." How 19th-century literature spread the archetype of the "evil abortionist" 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z Like Hollywood Westerns and dime novels, these theme parks propagate a particular myth of “the West.” Old West theme parks paint a false picture of pioneer California 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z It was an easy way for publishers of dime novels and tabloid newspapers to make a quick buck. How 19th-century literature spread the archetype of the "evil abortionist" 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z "In his bedroom I saw all these dime novels about cowboys and detectives, right next to a picture of Confucius." Hitler satire arrives in West End 2013-09-25T07:29:10Z All Jeremiah knows of the West are the romantic myths that he has learned from tattered dime novels, some of which feature fictionalized tales right out of Lefty’s past. Review: The Sidekick as Hero in ‘The Ballad of Lefty Brown’ 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Carson’s life as a fur trapper, scout and courier was chronicled in dime novels and newspapers accounts that made him a legend in his own time. Sabotage damages monument to frontiersman ‘Kit’ Carson, who led campaigns against Native Americans 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z In the latter half of the nineteenth century, nickelodeons and dime novels had featured the “lawless towns” of the West, and stories of cowboys, saloons, gunfights, and outlaws had become part of the collective imagination. The Wild West Meets the Southern Border 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z Even in the United States, dime novels popularized the western frontier during the Civil War and in the years after. West Texas: military history buff enjoys WWII books 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z There are plenty of tales to tell about how church reality came to resemble a dime novel, yet most are essentially stories of individual malfeasance, of depraved molesters seeking the camouflage of priestly celibacy. Opinion | What would Jesus do? Clean house in the Catholic Church. 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z This vision found support in movies such as “Winchester ’73” and “Colt .45,” which lionized firearms much as the dime novels of the 1800s did. Guns in America were no big deal, until big business made us love them 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Sickles began committing crimes in his teens and read dime novels describing the exploits of outlaws of the day. Modern theft of vintage gun revives 1927 Sultan murder tale 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z Its library’s special collections house everything from 1920s “dime novel” reviews to T-shirts that were auctioned off in protest of the 2002 Farscape cancellation. 10,000 zines and counting: a library's quest to save the history of fandom 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z The story of Boaz and Ruth is only fit for a dime novel. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z The vulgar impulse which generated rag-time cannot arouse a noble impulse in response any more than "dime novels" can awaken the instincts of gentlemanliness or ladyship. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z A grimy dime novel protruded rakishly from his hip pocket, and his right cheek was swollen as with the toothache, due, probably, to a generous "chaw" of Seaman's Delight. The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan 2012-03-15T02:00:21.153Z "I've heered them called the weaker sex," said the purser's yeoman, who was fond of literature of the dime novel variety. Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z One of the principal causes of the development of the outlaw was, as I said above, the publication of fiction and falsehood in such papers as the New York Weeklys and dime novels. The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid 2011-11-06T02:00:13.167Z Mr. Beadle, of dime novel fame, told me he helped Cooper lay the plot of the story, and that Mr. Towner Savage was the original "Ben Boden." Pioneer Day Exercises 2011-10-19T02:00:21.770Z It’s just like a dime novel, or a five-cent library plot.” The Heroes of the School or, The Darewell Chums Through Thick and Thin 2011-09-03T02:00:19.963Z These men usually don a costume like that of the hero of a dime novel. Frontier Folk 2011-08-19T02:00:11.653Z The moral standards of the dime novel are always of the highest. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z It's just the sort of thing you can find in any old dime novel. The Son of his Father 2011-06-01T02:00:21.287Z Under the red light of a camp fire, with the vast night of the Barranca yawning below, the tales had been spun—tales that had outdone the dime novels of Seyd’s youth. The Mystery of The Barranca 2011-05-25T02:00:16.720Z Of course you don't believe this; it reads too much like a dime novel. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z This was beating my dime novel, for sensation, all hollow. Hoosier Mosaics 2011-05-20T02:00:35.173Z The dime novel," Mr. Hay said, "is only a rude form of the story of adventure. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z Hence the phrases dime novels, dime museums, &c. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z You’ll soon be scouring the plain like the heroine of a dime novel.” The Delafield Affair 2011-01-19T03:00:21.497Z Nezer, however, took to her as a duck to water, and her story, which he soon heard, became a real dime novel to him, and not content with one telling, he insisted on repetition. The Girl From Tim's Place That sounds too much like a dime novel, my dear. Lefty Locke Pitcher-Manager This set us talking of the dime novel, a little group of us assembled in front of the fire. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z The character of the books in this establishment was of a singular mixture, running from the higher classics down to a dime novel, and from the Encyclopædia Britannica to Mother Goose's Melodies. Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands To make wholesome literature more accessible than dime novels would save many boys and girls from ruin, rouse many dormant intellects to higher life, and supply effective rivals to the saloons and other low resorts. The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses "Instead of which, here I am rescuing beleaguered damsels, like the hero of a dime novel, on two thousand a year." The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop Why, just to contemplate it was better than reading a dime novel! Campmates A Story of the Plains Some one started the talk by saying that the dime novel was an entirely innocent and a very necessary form of literature. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z Every moment when he is not working he is either vigorously walking, or poring over some book, a lurid dime novel I should judge from its appearance. Within Prison Walls being a narrative during a week of voluntary confinement in the state prison at Auburn, New York The idea of calling me a coward, and telling me I was like a boy in a dime novel because I ran away! Harper's Round Table, October 8, 1895 You ran away like a boy in a dime novel, just because you couldn't stand having anything go wrong. Harper's Round Table, October 1, 1895 If you want that story, you can go and buy yourself a dime novel. Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Ten Christmas stories If Scott's novels had been sufficiently condensed to be sold at the price, they would have been dime novels of the most successful sort. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z I turn, and it is my young friend of the dime novel. Within Prison Walls being a narrative during a week of voluntary confinement in the state prison at Auburn, New York He had a dime novel in one pocket, an English sixpence in another—And what was this? Dorothy at Oak Knowe "Humph, not much of a name," said Monty in a disappointed tone, for he had been an assiduous reader of dime novels. Si Klegg, Book 6 (of 6) Si And Shorty, With Their Boy Recruits, Enter On The Atlanta Campaign There was something fascinatingly mysterious in his tones and actions to that youth, who devoured dime novels on the sly. Si Klegg, Book 5 (of 6) The Deacon's Adventures At Chattanooga In Caring For The Boys "But dime novels corrupt the morals of boys," suggested some one of the company. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z Literature, the reading of Mother Goose Rhymes in shorthand, and the writing of dime novels for the literature of the 20th century. Silver Links He wouldn’t do for the hero of a dime novel—he isn’t melancholy in his mien, nor Byronic in his morals. Threads of Grey and Gold "Well, all the same, it's got to go for the scene of a cord o' dime novels," said Shorty. Si Klegg, Book 6 (of 6) Si And Shorty, With Their Boy Recruits, Enter On The Atlanta Campaign Those European expectations had been founded almost entirely upon the translations of dime novels and moving picture thrillers of the Wild West and comedy variety. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" There is never anything unclean in the dime novel, never anything that even squints at toleration of immorality. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z “I thought it belonged to the dime novel.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) "An Hour with a Lunatic," by Harry B. Sadik, is a very short and very thrilling tale of the "dime novel" variety. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 "It sounds good enough for a dime novel," answered the girl from the West. Dave Porter At Bear Camp or, The Wild Man of Mirror Lake Our heroes and villains are plucked alive from dime novels and is everything but true to life. Kid Scanlan He had never before read a dime novel, and this opened a new world to him. Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective What are we to do about the Flying Scud and the dime novel?” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) Get out your pen, and ink, and paper, and get busy;––eight dime novels of thirty thousand words apiece––two hundred and forty thousand words a day for five days! The Spoilers of the Valley "That knocks out all the dime novels ever written," said Ben. Dave Porter At Bear Camp or, The Wild Man of Mirror Lake One was deep in the blood-curdling pages of a dime novel, straining his eyes in the fitful light of the lamps. The Night Riders A Romance of Early Montana Close to the vilest of dime novels is an autograph copy of a book which you might not find at Brentano’s. The Book of Khalid “Nothing wrong with the dime novel, only that things happen thicker than they do in life, and the practical seamanship is off colour.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) I would rather write a ‘dime novel’ every day in my life, than this.” The Spoilers of the Valley "See here, Benny, have you been reading dime novels, and made up your mind to go West?" Harper's Young People, October 26, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly We kids thought he was the greatest thing outside a dime novel; and I tell you, he was a fine chap all through. Treasure Valley Occasionally, too, he indulges himself in a dime novel, the more sensational the better, and is sometimes induced to read therefrom to a group of companions whose attainments are even less than his own. Ben, the Luggage Boy; or, Among the Wharves “O, dime novels are right enough,” returned the captain. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) “And two years ago I was Captain Mayne Plunkett of dime novel repute––or disrepute––with glazed pants and a celluloid collar.” The Spoilers of the Valley With any old history book staring them in the face, they treated Jane Shore precisely as though she were the heroine of a dime novel. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 Great Scott, you talk like Sherlock Holmes or a dime novel. The Ocean Wireless Boys And The Naval Code Men read dime novels in proportion as their lives are staid and mechanical. The Lost Art of Reading “They cabled him to come up and illustrate this dime novel.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) Jim was reading to them from one of his most bloody dime novels, and the wonderful elocution he possessed never displayed itself with greater zest. The Spoilers of the Valley I wish I had something to read," he thought,—"some nice dime novel like 'The Demon of the Danube.' The Young Outlaw or, Adrift in the Streets Between the dime novel and the stern documents of the Lexow Committee there is room for history and fiction of every kind. American Sketches 1908 Men whose lives are their own dime novels are bored by printed ones. The Lost Art of Reading Many excellent books of what we have called the fiction type and the realistic type have a charming spirit of outdoor life and adventure that makes them pleasing substitutes for the objectionable dime novel. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Of course, you might write forty dime novels at fifty dollars apiece and make it that way:––that means just eight a day for five days.” The Spoilers of the Valley But there was no library in Sam's room, and it was very doubtful whether there were any dime novels in the house. The Young Outlaw or, Adrift in the Streets They said I'd been reading too many dime novels—I never read any! Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest I might add that one of our neighbor boys was to decamp with me, and the dime novel had been our guide. Twenty Years of Hus'ling Such an attempt would almost certainly result in a more or less surreptitious reading of a mass of unwholesome books which have come to be known as "dime novels." Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes The paper is not of dime novel order, but its serials and short stories are instructive, moral and entertaining. Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892 That he should have read or studied anything beyond drill and dime novels was not to be expected. A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike "She means dime novels," said one of the girls. Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life It’s only in dime novels that youngsters like you are generals and captains and famous detectives.” Tom Slade on a Transport There's no dime novel or any other kind of a novel to this affair, Colonel Ward. The Rainy Day Railroad War Pomeroy confessed that he had always been a great reader of 'blood and thunder' stories, having read probably sixty dime novels, all treating of scalping and deeds of violence. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries "That's a very pretty story," remarked the orderly, "but doesn't it sound almost too much like a dime novel?" George at the Fort Life Among the Soldiers His great ambition was to acquire a "mustang pony," for all the adventurous spirits of the dime novels he had known carried revolvers and rode mustangs. The Eagle's Heart At a desk near the entrance, a slovenly office boy sat reading a dime novel. The Easiest Way A Story of Metropolitan Life I've read about such critters as you be," said the colonel slowly, "but it was in a dime novel and it was a good many years ago and I didn't believe it. The Rainy Day Railroad War The wide prevalence of the dime novel evil appeared in the report of the reading of 1,000 boys in a western New York city. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries "I'd like to have told that fellow that if we had been reading dime novels, we wouldn't have had time to learn the Morse code," said Roy. Tom Slade at Temple Camp I have never read a dime novel in my life, and therefore couldn't undertake to rival them in highway robbery, scalping Indians, and bowie-knives and revolvers. Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside It is simply a sublimated "dime novel" which, by reason of increased demand for easy reading, on the part of the tired brain, has been put into a little better cover, and published by Harpers. Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O "Now, I'll tell you all something that sounds like fiction or a dime novel," volunteered the irrepressible Fuchsia. The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma This sounds like a dime novel tale, doesn't it? Crayon and Character: Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear Or, Ten-Minute Talks with Colored Chalks It was merely a rehearsal of a cheap bit of dime novel sort of bar-room, rough-house black-guardism that no doubt in various other places you have got away with and emerged the swaggering hero. The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police The maid was sentimental, and delighted to play a part smacking of those dime novels she spoiled her brains with. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man "Bosh, you talk as if you were in a dime novel," came from Jackson. The Rover Boys in Camp or, The Rivals of Pine Island I suppose you think by this time, bub, that I'm in my second childhood, and playing dime novel. The Ramrodders A Novel It was of the dime novel variety entitled "Conclusive Evidence," just the thing to appeal to the imaginative Willie. Cape Cod and All the Pilgrim Land, June 1922, Volume 6, Number 4 A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Interests of Southeastern Massachusetts He was down again in a moment with two dime novels and a story-paper of the same stamp. Elsie's New Relations A number of things, such as smoking, swearing, impurity, etc., were given, and finally one of the small boys piped up "reading dime novels." Camping For Boys They are written by the best authors, and are intended to supplant the dime novel and Buffalo Bill style of juvenile books. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 6, March, 1885 Blind as he might be, Dr. Armstrong was not blind to the geniality of Miss Durant's greeting the next morning, or the warmth of her thanks for the cheap-looking dime novel. Wanted—A Match Maker Abstractly considered, the thing seemed preposterous enough for the plot of a dime novel, while in the light of her sweet presence the development of his love seemed as logical as an algebraic problem. Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories "Go ahead; I'm more interested than if it was a dime novel." The Wild Olive Who could preach a sermon that would hold attentive the man saturated with Buckle, Mill, Spencer, Thackeray, Emerson, Humboldt, and Agassiz, and the man whose only literary recreation is the dime novel? Famous Americans of Recent Times A great librarian in one of our eastern cities has said that he would rather have children read dime novels than to have them read nothing. How to Teach A sublimated dime novel like "Treasure Island" came at the psychologic moment; the year before "The New Arabian Nights" had offered the same sort of pabulum, but had been practically overlooked. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities "You're going to say, I suppose, that the man is just some freak escaped from the pages of a dime novel?" demanded Harry. The Young Engineers in Colorado Or, At Railwood Building in Earnest Already several of our young men are reading dime novels and taking lessons in banditry; but the sheriff has stated that this parole will not be considered a precedent. Vandemark's Folly "Wrote dime novels an' drank whisky an' wore a bearskin vest," he added presently. Darrel of the Blessed Isles Yet on the strength of such dime novel rubbish an anthropologist assures us that savages are capable of feeling pure romantic love! Primitive Love and Love-Stories The way to good taste in reading is not, as some curiously declare, through the mire of the dime novel and the sensational story, but straight along the clean, bright path of decent literature. Library Work with Children Harry, you came west expecting to find the Colorado of the dime novels. The Young Engineers in Colorado Or, At Railwood Building in Earnest No, F-l-x, we would not call Treasure Island or the Pilgrim's Progress dime novels. The Golden Road "You seem to wish to make this steamer of yours the mise-en-scene of a dime novel, Captain," he observed. The Box with Broken Seals But love had to do with sweethearts and dime novels and plays on the stage. Calvary Alley Had it been the most imaginative chapter of a dime novel, things could not have happened more opportunely than they did. Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense He had also clothed himself in the extravagant clothes of the dime novel scout and beautiful girl-rescuer of the Indian country. Remarks These old derelicts—and some of the younger seafaring men—were better than dime novels to us boys, for we could always question them and draw out another story. Out of the Fog It is a boyish, melodramatic horror, such as immature minds seek in "movies," dime novels, secret societies, detective stories and "thrillers" at the circus. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived It must be confessed that this story sounds a good deal like an episode in a dime novel, and may well be taken with a grain of allowance. John James Audubon The dime novel and melodrama, with hackneyed situations, once provocative, are so easily nitro-bromidic that they become sulphitic in burlesque and parody. Are You a Bromide? The Sulphitic Theory Expounded and Exemplified According to the Most Recent Researches into the Psychology of Boredom Including Many Well-Known Bromidioms Now in Use "I pack my grandfather's trunk with a pair of spectacles, a silk hat and a dime novel." Entertainments for Home, Church and School Because," said the Boy Chief fiercely, "I am again without my regular dime novel—and I thought he might have one in his pack. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers I do hate to go about looking like the hero of a dime novel. The Long Chance Now, had Tom been the hero of some dime novel he would have shouted at once, "I refuse your offer—do your worse, base villain that you are!" The Rover Boys out West Or, The Search for a Lost Mine Miss Crown is the girl I wrote you about, the one with the dime novel history back of her. Quill's Window I should be writing dime novels instead of living the respectable life I do. Green Fancy "We do not allow dime novels, or, eatables, or other things that might harm our pupils." The Rover Boys at School People cannot be found by thousands who will pay a dollar and seventy-five cents for a dime novel or a religious tract. Taken Alive Will prefers dime novels, if he must sit still, and there was none. The Eye of Zeitoon Two or three clerks were in the outer office when she arrived, but the office boy, laying down a dime novel, rose to meet her and informed her that Mr. Bennett was alone. The Exploits of Elaine It's the awful secret of my life that I'm considering laying bare to you, just like a dime novel. The Unspeakable Perk Because," said Gavin, "we're living in the twentieth century and in real life, not in the dark ages and in a dime novel. Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story "If you do I'm going to start writing dime novels founded on that interminable history of your life you gave me last night." Flappers and Philosophers The condition of the Police Department sounds more like a chapter from a dime novel gone mad, than from any real state of things which could exist in a modern city. Theodore Roosevelt It was not unlike a dime novel of my youth. The Firefly of France For instance, I was not allowed to read dime novels. Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography It was the story of two boys who ran away and shipped aboard an Australian sailing packet, and contained more first-class horrors than any one of his beloved dime novels. Cap'n Eri "I seem to have walked right into the thick of a dime novel," said our visitor. The Hound of the Baskervilles My other reading-matter at that time consisted mainly of dime novels, borrowed from the hired men, and newspapers in which the servants gloated over the adventures of poor but virtuous shop-girls. The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii Because," said the Boy Chief, fiercely, "I am again without my regular dime novel, and I thought he might have one in his pack. Drift from Two Shores His odd literary fancy for Don Quixote, for Scott's poems and romances she encouraged, quietly eliminating the dime novels he had read indiscriminately with these. The Vision Splendid I fancy you got it out of a dime novel, didn't you? The White Moll "I thought it belonged to the dime novel." The Wrecker "Nothing wrong with the dime novel, only that things happen thicker than they do in life, and the practical seamanship is off-colour." The Wrecker "They cabled him to come up and illustrate this dime novel." The Wrecker "O, dime novels are right enough," returned the captain. The Wrecker |
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