The Public is an old woman.

"The Roman public is the most intelligent public in the world."

After all, the Gas Companies (albeit monopolists) are merely traders, and the Public are the customers.

" "The public are fools!" said the young man, hotly.

The public to make good in either case all deficiency of Indian revenue, and in either case the Company to be the agents for the territory, providing all necessary sums here and receiving repayment at a rate of exchange to be paid from time to time fairly.

The army was to blame, when, of course, under free institutions the public was to blame, as the public is master of the army and not the army of the public.

The calculation of the sale of 12,000 of each work is a reasonable one, and splendid as, in that case, the reward will be, the reading-public will be the gainers.

Yet by the larger, or, at any rate, the intermediate public, it is a fact that Gissing has never been quite fairly estimated.

Nowadays, literature, having found the public to be its most profitable patron, works hard and even abjectly for its favor.

And the beauty of it is that the public wouldn't really be any the worse.

The public was the only party to the proceedings which showed any sense.

The British public are essentially hero worshippers, and especially do they worship men who show manliness and pluck; and those feelings of respect and admiration that it is to be hoped in more stirring times would be reserved for a Nelson or a Wellington have been recently lavished on our Graces, our Stoddarts, our Ranjitsinhjis, and our Steels.

The public is cussin' you from DANIEL to BEEBSHEBER, because you've brought a lot of modern Philistines to Massachusetts.

Now then, come forth, thou aggregate outburst of the great American heart![BJ] Speak for thyselflet the public be thy judge.

Had, therefore, the reading public been much larger than it was, men of fastidious taste, who paid as much deference to polite opinion as Addison did in his youth, could have expected only audience fit but few, and would have been without encouragement to the pursuit of letters unless patronage rewarded merit.

Her public is the noon, Her providence the sun, Her progress by the bee proclaimed In sovereign, swerveless tune.

This effort was all the more Roman and all the more deserving of respect, that the public which he primarily addressed was the family circle, and that in such an effort he stood almost alone in his time.

" "The public's is an awful power, Mr. Effingham!"

Such, then, is the character and such are the duties of the directors appointed by the United States, whether the public be stockholders or not.

'The public is my schoolmistress,' said Margaret.