Wuthering Heights vocabulary

"It's strange. Samoylenko has cabbage soup and Marya Konstantinovna has cabbage soup, and only I am obliged to eat this mawkish mess. We can't go on like this, darling."

Anton Chekhov. The Duel and Other Stories

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You’d hear of odd things if I lived alone with that mawkish, waxen face: the most ordinary would be painting on its white the colours of the rainbow, and turning the blue eyes black, every day or two: they detestably resemble Linton’s.

Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)

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Deriving his idiosyncrasies from both sides of the Channel, he showed at such junctures as the present the inelasticity of the Englishman, together with that blindness to the line where sentiment verges on mawkishness, characteristic of the French.

Thomas Hardy. Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)

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In this mawkish aura, Mrs. Haze gently touched the silver

Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita