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"Thriller" Quotes from Famous Books

... the attractiveness of the hero tale, the story of adventure, and the stirring historical narrative. The action should have the merit of artistic moderation. Stories in which there is a carnival of action, for example, the "dime thriller", under whose spell so many boys fall, must be avoided. Literature that leaves the mind so feverish that the pupil loses interest in other subjects is worse than no literature. The easiest way to prevent a taste for this injurious ...

— Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature • Ontario Ministry of Education

... Meanwhile, doing anything to-night? I hear that Polaire is on at the Folies Bergeres with her opium-den scene. A thriller, I'm told." ...

— Swirling Waters • Max Rittenberg

... in Ottawa—it was he who told me so much about her. He simply raved about her to me—it seems he was quite mad about her once, and probably it was a lover's quarrel or something that drove her away to the West to forget,—and now think of her meeting Bruce again. Isn't that a thriller?" ...

— The Black Creek Stopping-House • Nellie McClung

... heroic Judith. "What happened this afternoon is only an introduction. The real thriller is yet ...

— Jane Allen: Junior • Edith Bancroft

... five minutes, I suppose," Penny answered wearily. "She came in, her arm linked with Peter's, and laughing. Said she had found him reading a 'Deadwood Dick' thriller.... One of Tracey's hobbies—" she broke off to explain, "—is collecting old-fashioned thrillers, like the Nick Carter, Diamond King Brady, Buffalo Bill and Deadwood Dick paper-bound books. Of course he didn't take up that hobby until a lot of other rich men had done it first. ...

— Murder at Bridge • Anne Austin

Words linked to "Thriller" : heroic tale, adventure story, thrill