'He had the kind of face which is always turned away from facts,' Gideon said. '

Facts are too difficult, too complicated for him.

Hard, jolly facts, with clear sharp edges that you can't slur and talk away.

I suppose facts have hit them too hard, and so they shrink away from thempad them with sentiment, like uneducated women in villas.

Nearly the whole press is the same, dealing in emotions and stunts, unable to face facts squarely, in a calm spirit.

Of course there were plenty of them at home too, and plenty of peaceable and civilised people at the front, but it's the most absurd perversion of facts to make out that all our combatants were full of sweet reasonableness (any one who knows anything about the psychological effects of fighting will know that this is improbable), and all our non-combatants bloody-minded savages.

The ignorance which does not know facts; the vulgarity which cannot appreciate values; the laziness which will not try to learn either of these things; the sentimentality which, knowing neither, is stirred by the valueless and the untrue; the greed which grabs and exploits.

The Pinkerton papers and the others can supply the ideas; we are out for facts.

The Daily Haste hated being pinned down to and quarrelled with about facts; facts didn't seem to the Pinkerton press things worth quarrelling over, like policy, principles, or prejudices.

The Daily Haste hated being pinned down to and quarrelled with about facts; facts didn't seem to the Pinkerton press things worth quarrelling over, like policy, principles, or prejudices.

If you still pressed and proved your point, he would again refer to his circulation, but using it this time as an indication of how little it mattered whether his facts were right or wrong.

The Pinkerton press did its level best to muddle the issues of that strike, by distorting some facts, passing over others, and inventing more.

" "Don't tell me any facts," implored Jay.

"Don't tell me you pressed half a crown into the palm of the oldest and wisest inhabitant, and found out facts about some nasty young man who was born in seventeen something, and lived in a place called Atlantic View, and wore curls and a choky stock, and fought at Waterloo, and lies in the village church under a stone monstrosity.

Don't tell me facts, because I know they will bar me for ever out of my House by the Sea.

Facts are contraband there.

"I asked you to tell me no facts," she added.

How dared you know?" "Oh well," said Mr. Russell, "you asked me to tell you no facts.

And there shall be no facts any more, only the ghosts, and the dreams.

The historical facts with which he had to deal he grouped under these embracing categories, and in the French Revolution, which is as much a treasure-house of his philosophy as a history, there is hardly a page on which they do not appear.

Ancient etymologies, and other facts in literary history, must be taken by the young upon the credit of him who states them; but the doctrines of general grammar are to the learner the easiest and the most important principles of the science.

Any person who can read, can learn from a book such simple facts as are within his comprehension; and we have it on the authority of Dr. Adam, that, "The principles of grammar are the first abstract truths which a young mind can comprehend.

And perhaps there are few, however learned, who, on a perusal of the volume, would not be furnished with some important rules and facts which had not before occurred to their own observation.

Because the questions, or abstract directions, which constitute the common parsing tables, are less intelligible to the learner than a practical example; and more time must needs be consumed on them, in order to impress upon his memory the number and the sequence of the facts to be stated.

"Here, then, we have three important facts.