"Effectuality" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... from the start, and never kills anything within those limits except a poor little tame wolf-cub which is going (very sensibly) to fly at him. He is altogether too much in appearance and too little in effectuality of the stage Spaniard—black garments, black upturned moustache, hook-nose, navaja, and all the rest of it. But he does not spoil the thing, though he hardly does it much good; and if he is badly treated he has ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 - To the Close of the 19th Century • George Saintsbury |
