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He quoted the passages in which she explains that college is not the “universal Athens” she had hoped to find, and cited the cases of other remarkable persons whose college life had proved disappointing.

To quote his own words, in his Memoirs: "This moonshine about the Opera ghost in which, since we first took over the duties of MM.

As he bowed over her he smiled, and quoted the hackneyed and beautiful lines from The Rape of the Lock about Belinda's diamonds, "which Jews might kiss and infidels adore."

Quoting these cases, he shows that it is preciselyin them that the application of the rule is both necessary andreasonable.

Maybe youâre rubbing shoulders with it at this moment.â âThatâs what Kipling says,â he said, his eyes brightening, and he quoted some verse about âRomance brings up the 9.15.â âHereâs a true tale for you then,â I cried, âand a month from now you can make a novel out of it.â Sitting on the bridge in the soft May gloaming I pitched him a lovely yarn.

They quote all those sayings of Christ’s whichcan possibly be interpreted as justification of cruelty: theexpulsion from the Temple; “It shall be more tolerable for theland of Sodom than for this city,” etc.,

I will quote onlyone most curious remark dropped by this person. ‘

On the steps of the Paris stock exchange the goldskinned men quoting prices on their gemmed fingers.

Titchener quotes an opinion of Wundt on these investigations, which appears to me thoroughly justified. "

Then he had it right, and when one does quote aright from that same old Book he quotes the absolute truth.

A bishop’— and I quote the term with the simple meaning of overseer— ‘must be blameless.’

I have repeatedly quoted the statement that during his life-time he had three thousand disciples.

exclaimed Miss Betsey, unconsciously quoting the second sentiment of the pincushion in the drawer upstairs, but applying it to my mother instead of me, ‘I don’t mean that.

During all this excursion, she condescended to say civil things to him: she quoted Italian and French poetry to the poor bewildered lad, and persisted that he was a fine scholar, and was perfectly sure he would gain a gold medal, and be a Senior Wrangler.

Men of business are accustomed to quote the maxim that Time is money; but it is more; the proper improvement of it is self-culture, self-improvement, and growth of character.

He was so exasperated he quoted Latin.

Asexamples of these questions, in which the answers are to someextent included also, I will quote the following.

I think nothing; I quote a fact, that is all.

As to her family, they were totally unworthy of her, and their sentiments were utterly indifferent to him, and they might—I quote his own expression—go to the Devil.

Before discussing the matter further, let us quote Dr. Cocke's experiment in hypnotizing himself.

I have invariably combated both these absurd assertions by quoting examples of fat people who were as mean, vicious, and cruel as the leanest and the worst of their neighbours.

But J. Deniker quotes evidence to show that eoliths and early palaeoliths have been found in America.

I quoted Mr. Dugald then for I did not know people could be picturesque.

To prove this, he quotes a declaration made by Parliament about a hundred years ago, to William and Mary, in these words: "The Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, do, in the name of the people aforesaid" (meaning the people of England then living) "most humbly and faithfully submit themselves, their heirs and posterities, for Ever."

Again we quote Carlyle:Maillard has halted his draggled Menads on the last hilltop; and now Versailles, and the Chateau of Versailles, and far and wide the inheritance of Royalty opens to the wondering eye.

“Don’t quote Bible at me that way, Mr. Wilson,” said George, with a flashing eye, “don’t!

When I ask for a garment of a particular form, my tailoress tells me gravely, “They do not make them so now,” not emphasizing the “They” at all, as if she quoted an authority as impersonal as the Fates, and I find it difficult to get made what I want, simply because she cannot believe that I mean what I say, that I am so rash.

Every dealer confirms the fact that the first price he quotes a woman is increased in order to give her a chance to bargain.

I quote the official procès verbal, an indignant but often misspelled document.

“I quote Variety,” I said, catching the ball left-handed for the briefest of seconds before hurling it back against the glass, “‘Murdered Earth is the sort of film you hope never makes it to broadcast television, because nearby aliens might pick up its broadcast signal and use it as an excuse to annihilate us all.’

Mr. March strolled placidly about, quoting Tusser, Cowley, and Columella to Mr. Laurence, while enjoying... The gentle apple's winey juice.

“I can’t believe you just quoted a Steve Miller tune to the leader of an alien race,” Van Doren, standing next to me, muttered under his breath.

Says Holland Rose, quoting theirs this Egyptian expedition was the rashest attempt history records.

And he began quoting several texts, referring us to chapters and verses where we might find them.

In this stage, the generic classification in strata of different ages belonging to the so-called consanguine family runs parallel for a while with the gentile order.... It would have been easy for me to quote the testimony of travelers and ethnologists in support of the conclusions drawn by me from the forms of relationship among Australian negroes.

Even if he knew it by heart, a man in my disturbed, befuddled condition couldn’t have quoted a syllable of his own country’s history.

Mr Bell quotes from Bishop Stanley’s “History of Birds” a little story which peculiarly justifies the special character Chaucer has given: — “A French surgeon, at Smyrna, wishing to procure a stork, and finding great difficulty, on account of the extreme veneration in which they are held by the Turks, stole all the eggs out of a nest, and replaced them with those of a hen: in process of time the young chickens came forth, much to the astonishment of Mr and Mrs Stork.

Tyrwhitt quotes two statutes of Edward III, in which “deys”are included among the servants employed in agricultural pursuits; the name seems to have originally meant a servant who gave his labour by the day, but afterwards to have been appropriated exclusively to one who superintended or worked in a dairy.

Jon Bentley, in the "Bumper-Sticker Computer Science" chapter of his book `More Programming Pearls', quotes Dick Sites from DEC as saying "I'd rather write programs to write programs than write programs".

Like Cephalus, he is limited in his point of view, and represents the proverbial stage of morality which has rules of life rather than principles; and he quotes Simonides as his father had quoted Pindar.

Quoted in the Catalonian original by Sugenheim, "Serfdom," Petersburg, 1861, page 35.)

Of this new speech of his Iwill quote only a few sentences.

Supposing that he had leave to avenge himself, she repeats that he is not strong enough, and quotes the common saw, that it is madness for a man to strive with a stronger than himself, peril to strive with one of equal strength, and folly to strive with a weaker.

She should also quote samples of many girls of ancient times, such as Sakuntala and others, who, having united themselves with lovers of their own caste and their own choice, were ever happy afterwards in their society.

Menage on this word quotes the Roman des Royau-Iignages of Guillaume Ghyart.

By way of illustration, we quote reports of two cases, one successful and one unsuccessful.

I quote the questions and answers as given in the official report pp.

At first he hesitated; quoted the Italian proverb, Chi sta bene non si muove; said he had lived fifteen years in Rome, married a wife there, and looked forward to dying and being buried there.

Why, that the nation has no right at all in the case; that the government is perfectly arbitrary with respect to this point; and he can quote for his authority the precedent of a former Parliament.

“I quoted the postscript.

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