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Examples from Classical Literature
That is how Jesse Trefusis, a poor Manchester bagman, contrived to be come a plutocrat and gentleman of landed estate.
Trefusis objected that the epitaph was untrue, and said that he did not see why tombstones should be privileged to publish false statements.
Jansenius was glad to see Trefusis confirming her bad opinion and report of him by his conduct and language in the doctor's presence.
Trefusis and Agatha talking very lovingly to one another on the conservatory steps, newly engaged.
But by other persons it was so much admired that Trefusis hoped it would ensure the prosperity of its designer.
Her jealousy of these qualities was now barbed by the knowledge that they were much nearer akin than her own to those of Trefusis.
For a moment Trefusis felt a vagabond impulse to resume the language of Smilash and fable to the man of hampers of turkey and plum-pudding in the van.
Trefusis paid the money at once, and then set himself to find out how much a similar design would have cost from the hands of an eminent Royal Academician.
The porter who came to the carriage door reminded Trefusis by his manner and voice that the season was one at which it becomes a gentleman to be festive and liberal.
Trefusis retorted that the fact of a man paying a thousand pounds for a portrait proved that he had not earned the money, and was therefore either a thief or a beggar.
Well, Hetty, if I am to speak candidly, I must say that I have known Sidney Trefusis for a long time, and he is the easiest person to get on with I ever met.
Agatha, disgusted with herself and with Gertrude, and undecided whether to be disgusted with Trefusis or to trust him affectionately, followed the example of her host.
He had to content himself with setting the man to work again on mantelpieces and other decorative stone-work for use in house property on the Trefusis estate.
But Trefusis called to him to stop, and he dismounted reluctantly.
