Though this was denounced as itself as complete a plagiarism as any Sir Fretful Plagiary could make, and though undoubtedly the idea of it was borrowed, its wit, so truly Sheridanian, and its complete characters, enhanced its author's fame, in spite of the disappointment of those who expected higher things from the writer of 'The School for Scandal.'

Her frankness was not bold, the little, French-Canadian gestures were obviously borrowed, and some of the colloquialisms she used were out of date.

I truly have no money, as you know, nor can I have it, nor consequently can I borrow, since I have nothing wherewith to repay.

This author endeavors to prove that the Qquichua religion was mainly borrowed from the Aymaras, and of the two he regards the latter as the senior in civilization.

This bald pedantry of "tha qua, qua tha," was secretly borrowed from the grammatical speculations of William S. Cardell: the "which-that" notion contradicts it, and is partly of the borrower's own invention.

Lamb was especially fond of old writers and borrowed unconsciously from the style of Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and from Browne's Religio Medici and from the early English dramatists.

Gladly have I borrowed it from you, but it may not be that I can take it as a gift.

The outstretched arms of the infant Christ have been copied from nature, not merely borrowed from tradition.

In the last age of the Republic it had become a necessary part of the aedile's duty to supplement the State's contribution, and as a rule he had to borrow heavily, and thus to involve himself financially quite early in his political career.

But Eric, hastily borrowing another bat, took his place again quite tamely; he was trembling, and at the very next ball, he spooned a miserable catch into Graham's hand, and the shout of triumph from the other side proclaimed that his innings was over.

I was in debt so deeply that I could not honestly borrow, and my brother was dead.

I strongly suspect the Minorites, for the honour of Oderic, have ignorantly borrowed and exaggerated from Marco Polo, to decorate the legend of the favourite Saint of Udina.

In short, after introducing slavery into the new world the Spaniards maintained it in sluggish fashion, chiefly in the islands, as an institution which peoples more vigorous industrially might borrow and adapt to a more energetic plantation régime.

His mise en scène is invariably borrowed from luxurious Italian palaceslarge open courts and loggie, crowded with guests and lacqueystables profusely laden with gold and silver plate.

He has borrowed very liberally from a play of Mrs. Behn's called The Amorous Jilt. 22.

In the last scene, that pathetic speech of Eleanor's to Cardinal Beaufort when he was dying in the agonies of remorse and despair, is literally borrowed.

It is the great excellence of learning, that it borrows very little from time or place; it is not confined to season or to climate, to cities or to the country, but may be cultivated and enjoyed where no other pleasure can be obtained.

Two she and her husband "took"; the other she borrowed monthly from a neighbor, on an "exchange" basis.

Further, after the existence of real things affecting the senses had been transformed in his mind from a basis of the investigation into an object of inquiry, he endeavored to defend this assumption (which at first he had naïvely borrowed from the realism of pre-scientific thought) by arguments, but without any satisfactory result.

"First, we borrowed two policemen's dark lanterns from the station nearby, and where the superintendent and I were friendly, and as soon as it was really dusk, the landlord went up to his house for his gun.

[Wordsworth]; genius borrows nobly [Emerson]; pursuing echoes calling 'mong the rocks [A. Coles]; quotation confesses inferiority

Even from troubles past we borrow Some thoughts that may lighten sorrow, Onwards as we pace through life, Fainting under care or strife,

Of course the claim sometimes put forward for Sannazzaro, as the inventor of the piscatory eclogue, ignores various passages in Theocritus, notably the twenty-first Idyl, whence he presumably borrowed the idea.

There are many masonic traditions, principally borrowed from the Talmud, connected with Mount Calvary; such as, that it was the place where Adam was buried, &c. MOUNT MORIAH.

In the Fakeer, a tale professedly borrowed from Voltaire, the story takes a less humorous turn than as it is told in the extracts from Pere Le Comte's memoirs in the preface.