Middlemarch

My brother Solomon tells me it's the talk up and down in Middlemarch how unsteady young Vincy is, and has been forever gambling at billiards since home he came.

It's pretty good authority, I think—a man who knows most of what goes on in Middlemarch.

I pass at Middlemarch. I am not afraid of talking to our old neighbors.

Mr. Vincy was mayor of the old corporation in Middlemarch

Most of those who saw Fred riding out of Middlemarch in company with Bambridge and Horrock, on his way of course to Houndsley horse-fair, thought that young Vincy was pleasure-seeking as usual;

I suppose they are legatees from a distance, or from Middlemarch.

The residue of the property was to be devoted to the erection and endowment of almshouses for old men, to be called Featherstone's Alms-Houses, and to be built on a piece of land near Middlemarch already bought for the purpose by the testator, he wishing—so the document declared—to please God Almighty.

Lydgate also, finding that his sum of eight hundred pounds had been considerably reduced since he had come to Middlemarch, restrained his inclination for some plate of an old pattern which was shown to him when he went into Kibble's establishment at Brassing to buy forks and spoons.

What the opposition in Middlemarch said about the New Hospital and its administration had certainly a great deal of echo in it.

While Lydgate, safely married and with the Hospital under his command, felt himself struggling for Medical Reform against Middlemarch, Middlemarch was becoming more and more conscious of the national struggle for another kind of Reform.

or a dialogue with a Middlemarch voter, from which he came away with a sense that he was a tactician by nature

Gentlemen—Electors of Middlemarch!

a man whose acquaintance with Bulstrode seemed to imply passages in the banker's life so unlike anything that was known of him in Middlemarch

He preferred using his time in pleasant conversation with the bailiff and the housekeeper, from whom he gathered as much as he wanted to know about Mr. Bulstrode's position in Middlemarch.

Poor thing! she did not even know whether Will Ladislaw was still at Middlemarch, and there was no one whom she dared to ask...

Lydgate's preeminence in Middlemarch society, and could go on imaginatively tracing still more agreeable social effects when his talent should have advanced him;

Other prints, and afterwards some paintings, were sold to leading Middlemarchers who had come with a special desire for them

It was generally known in Middlemarch that a good deal of money was lost and won in this way; and the consequent repute of the Green Dragon as a place of dissipation naturally heightened in some quarters the temptation to go there.

if you return to Middlemarch, if you use your tongue in a manner injurious to me, you will have to live on such fruits as your malice can bring you, without help from me.

foreshadowed what was soon to be loudly spoken of in Middlemarch as a necessary 'putting of two and two together.'

having now made up his mind that he need not quit Middlemarch

and associating this with some new urgency on Lydgate to make immediate arrangements for leaving Middlemarch and going to London