"Yes, indeed," he said; "and our proverbs, though made by men, express this truth with a sharpness in which there is little exaggeration.

As to the statements themselves, they have, ever since the appearance in 1848 of Lord Houghton's Life of Keats, been regarded as very gross exaggerations: indeed, I think the tendency has since then been excessive in the reverse direction, and the vexation occasioned to Keats by hostile criticism has come to be underrated.

This was a slight exaggeration.

It has been objected to them with great warmth, and urged with much rhetorical exaggeration, that they assist the enemies of their country, that they prolong the war, and defeat those advantages which our situation and commerce have given us; imputations sufficiently atrocious, if they were founded upon truth.

What protects such words from the imputation of mere Eastern exaggeration?

This may be a pardonable exaggeration; but there are certainly distinct marks of haste in the composition of the play.

Just before Macaulay, with monstrous exaggeration, says that Gibbon, 'forced by poverty to leave his country, completed his immortal work on the shores of Lake Leman.'

By some most extraordinary exaggeration, the number of these churches has been stated to be above forty-five thousand.

What we (or rather a phantom substituted in the place of us) were sometimes, by a ridiculous exaggeration, called by others, namely a "school," some of us for a time really hoped and aspired to be.

'I am inclined to think,' he writes, 'that he did injustice to his own opinions by the unconscious exaggerations of an intellect emphatically polemical; and that when thinking without an adversary in view, he was willing to make room for a great portion of the truths he seemed to deny.'

I have already said that the real damages to repair do not exceed 40 milliards of gold marks and that all the other figures are pure exaggerations.

The teacher may forget the incident or pass it over as trivial, but in many such cases a sensitive boy has been wounded, and he broods over the words and ends by imagining all sorts of foolish exaggerations.

Lamartine, in his sentimental and rhetorical exaggeration, speaks of him as "the Ossian of France,an aeolian harp, producing sounds which ravish the ear and agitate the heart, but which the mind cannot define; the poet of instincts rather than of ideas, who gained an immortal empire, not over the reason but over the imagination of the age.

This is doubtless an exaggeration, but indicates great progress in naval architecture.

But with all his probable exaggeration, we are forced to feel that but few women, even in the highest class, except those converted to Christianity, showed the virtues of a Lucretia, a Volumnia, a Cornelia, or an Octavia.

And, as the entire number fell short of two thousand, Lord Shelburne's expression of fear for the liberties and religion of Englishmen was an absurd exaggeration.

" Page dissented with a grave irony from the romantic exaggeration of this generalization.

The number of the slain was said to be 80,000 or even 120,000, which must have been, however, an incredible exaggeration.

The work teems with unjust, incorrect opinions; is full of crass ignorance and grotesque exaggerations, which lead the unlearned astray, injure Germany's cause, and annoy those who know betterso far as they do not excite ridicule.

Great was the wonder at the sudden and simultaneous disappearance of so many "prime hands," roughly estimated, though probably with considerable exaggeration, as worth in the market not less than a hundred thousand dollars,and all at "one fell swoop" too, as the District Attorney afterwards, in arguing the case against me, pathetically expressed it!

Walpole describes the hill with humorous exaggeration.

It is true that there are indubitable signs of insanity in the document, but it is the insanity of a diseased mind manifesting itself by fantastic exaggeration of sentiment, rather than of a mind confiding to itself its own delusions as to matters of fact.

That is no picturesque exaggeration about a man's hair standing when he is terrified.

Every one is familiar with that imaginative exaggeration which fills the world with miracles.

Again, on July 28, 1911, in the midst of the Morocco crisis, Baron Guillaume, Belgian Ambassador at Paris, writes: I have great confidence in the pacific sentiments of the Emperor William, in spite of the too frequent exaggeration of some of his gestures.