C13. Catchphrases and verbal tics. Count

Dialogue and voice. One line per book. Open a book for the full answer, charts and cited lines.

Book	Genre	Result
Treasure Island	Thriller and adventure	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
The Thirty-Nine Steps	Thriller and adventure	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
The Prisoner of Zenda	Thriller and adventure	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
Around the World in Eighty Days	Thriller and adventure	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
King Solomon's Mines	Thriller and adventure	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
The Hound of the Baskervilles	Crime and mystery	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
A Study in Scarlet	Crime and mystery	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes	Crime and mystery	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
The Moonstone	Crime and mystery	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
The Woman in White	Crime and mystery	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
Pride and Prejudice	Romance	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
Persuasion	Romance	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
Emma	Romance	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
Jane Eyre	Romance	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
Dracula	Gothic and horror	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
Frankenstein	Gothic and horror	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde	Gothic and horror	No phrase of three or four words repeats four times or more in speech.
The Picture of Dorian Gray	Gothic and horror	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
Wuthering Heights	Gothic and horror	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
The Turn of the Screw	Gothic and horror	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
The Time Machine	Science fiction	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
The War of the Worlds	Science fiction	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
The Invisible Man	Science fiction	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	Fantasy and children's	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz	Fantasy and children's	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
The Secret Garden	Fantasy and children's	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
The Wind in the Willows	Fantasy and children's	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
Great Expectations	Literary	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
A Christmas Carol	Literary	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
The Great Gatsby	Literary	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
Heart of Darkness	Literary	No phrase of three or four words repeats four times or more in speech.
Kidnapped	Thriller and adventure	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
The Count of Monte Cristo	Thriller and adventure	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
The Three Musketeers	Thriller and adventure	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
The Riddle of the Sands	Thriller and adventure	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
The Scarlet Pimpernel	Thriller and adventure	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
The Lost World	Thriller and adventure	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
Captain Blood	Thriller and adventure	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
Lady Audley's Secret	Crime and mystery	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
The Murders in the Rue Morgue	Crime and mystery	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
The Innocence of Father Brown	Crime and mystery	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
The Big Bow Mystery	Crime and mystery	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
The Leavenworth Case	Crime and mystery	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
The Red Thumb Mark	Crime and mystery	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
The Amateur Cracksman	Crime and mystery	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
The Secret Agent	Crime and mystery	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
Sense and Sensibility	Romance	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
North and South	Romance	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
Far from the Madding Crowd	Romance	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
The Enchanted April	Romance	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
The Sheik	Romance	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
Daddy Long Legs	Romance	No phrase of three or four words repeats four times or more in speech.
Carmilla	Gothic and horror	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
The Castle of Otranto	Gothic and horror	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
The Phantom of the Opera	Gothic and horror	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
The Great God Pan	Gothic and horror	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
The Yellow Wallpaper	Gothic and horror	No phrase of three or four words repeats four times or more in speech.
The Call of Cthulhu	Gothic and horror	No phrase of three or four words repeats four times or more in speech.
The Island of Doctor Moreau	Science fiction	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
Journey to the Centre of the Earth	Science fiction	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
A Princess of Mars	Science fiction	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
Herland	Science fiction	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
Flatland	Science fiction	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
Erewhon	Science fiction	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
The Last Man	Science fiction	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
Through the Looking Glass	Fantasy and children's	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
A Little Princess	Fantasy and children's	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
The Jungle Book	Fantasy and children's	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
Five Children and It	Fantasy and children's	No phrase of three or four words repeats four times or more in speech.
The Railway Children	Fantasy and children's	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
The Princess and the Goblin	Fantasy and children's	No phrase of three or four words repeats four times or more in speech.
Peter and Wendy	Fantasy and children's	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
The Worm Ouroboros	Fantasy and children's	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
Anne of Green Gables	Fantasy and children's	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
Black Beauty	Fantasy and children's	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
Middlemarch	Literary	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles	Literary	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
Mrs Dalloway	Literary	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
To the Lighthouse	Literary	No phrase of three or four words repeats four times or more in speech.
Anna Karenina	Literary	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
Crime and Punishment	Literary	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
Madame Bovary	Literary	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
The Age of Innocence	Literary	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
Silas Marner	Literary	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Literary	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
Hamlet	Plays	No phrase of three or four words repeats four times or more in speech.
Macbeth	Plays	No phrase of three or four words repeats four times or more in speech.
Romeo and Juliet	Plays	No phrase of three or four words repeats four times or more in speech.
Othello	Plays	No phrase of three or four words repeats four times or more in speech.
A Midsummer Night's Dream	Plays	No phrase of three or four words repeats four times or more in speech.
Twelfth Night	Plays	No phrase of three or four words repeats four times or more in speech.
Doctor Faustus	Plays	Phrases of three or four words repeated most often inside speech.
The Importance of Being Earnest	Plays	No phrase of three or four words repeats four times or more in speech.
A Doll's House	Plays	No phrase of three or four words repeats four times or more in speech.
Hedda Gabler	Plays	No phrase of three or four words repeats four times or more in speech.
Pygmalion	Plays	No phrase of three or four words repeats four times or more in speech.
The School for Scandal	Plays	No phrase of three or four words repeats four times or more in speech.

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