Let me, at the risk of tediousness, proceed to bring these generalities to a point by a few instances,not intending to exhaust the topic, but only to exemplify the method of approaching it.

"I know that you prefer generalities to anything of a personal nature, but does Juanita wish to go into religion?"

"And these periods of probation," said Sarrion, reverting to those generalities which form the language of the cloister.

Her dealings with men had been confined to members of that sex who went about their purpose in an indirect and roundabout way, speaking in generalities, attentive to insignificant detail, possessing that smaller sense of proportion which is a feminine failing and which must always make a tangled jumble of those public affairs in which women and priests may play a part.

We retorted by the word "sentimentality," which, along with "declamation" and "vague generalities," served us as common terms of opprobrium.

If the President had a programme, other than the general principles and the few territorial settlements included in his Fourteen Points, and the generalities contained in his "subsequent addresses," he did not show a copy of the programme to the Commissioners or advise them of its contents.

He dealt in generalities leaving, but not committing, to others their definition and application.

"It is remarkable," proceeded Psmith placidly, with the impersonal touch of one lecturing on generalities, "how frequently, when a murder has been committed, one finds men confessing that they have done it when it is out of the question that they should have committed it.

But let us leave these generalities, and examine nearer by, from the stand-point of emancipation, the four or five hypotheses which we have signalled out most plainly, and between which seem to lie the chances of the future.

"Is you hearn f'm Sam lately?" uncle Wellington inquired, after the conversation had drifted through the usual generalities.

He made a speech well suited to his position, and glossed off with some fine generalities, avoiding commitments on main points and making them on minor ones, concluding with a string of wampum.

A more striking illustration of the soundness and necessity of the rules which forbid vague and indefinite generalities and require a reasonable certainty in all judicial allegations, and a more glaring instance of the violation of those rules, has seldom been exhibited.

They are as much respected in business transactions, and their mercantile talents, their acquaintance with the generalities and details of commerce, and sagacity and judgment in making bargains, are as highly esteemed by the white merchants, as though they wore an European hue.

The groans of the monster prove that those rays of truth, which did not disturb him whilst they continued to move in the parallel lines of abstractions and generalities, make it quite too hot for him since they are converged to a burning focus upon his devoted head.

He had to abandon all generalities and circuitousness, and come plump upon the royal sinner with his "Thou art the man."

But Hildreth did not pause at generalities.

Beginning with watery generalities about "mutual friendships and the interests arising out of them," he regretted that there should be any misconception of his motives on the part of the Bey.

" Mr. Taynton did not reply to these critical generalities but went back to what he had been saying when the entry of coffee interrupted him.

In this state the doctor gave him a paternal lesson on the consequences to his future life of the rebellion against necessary discipline and of persistent disorderly conduct, but without any actual reproof or mention of his offense, and all in his invariably kindly tone as if it were a talk on generalities, and then dismissed him to think it over.

Philosophy, dealing in generalities, resolves speech not only as a whole into its constituent parts and separable elements, as anatomy shows the use and adaptation of the parts and joints of the human body; but also as a composite into its matter and form, as one may contemplate that same body in its entireness, yet as consisting of materials, some solid and some fluid, and these curiously modelled to a particular figure.

He tried to glean something from De Galissonnière, who talked with him several times, but the young captain would not depart from generalities.

"Me, I heard you boasting to those San Vincente vaqueros," Manuel accused, shifting the talk to generalities.

When the child was asleep upstairs, Phoebe and the little servant cleared away while Fenwick and Miss Anna read the newspaper, and talked on generalities.

They have no underlying generalities on which to stand.

I am but one; but with all my oneness, with all that there is of me, I protest against such shallow generalities.