1786 examples of quotation in sentences

He took rather too deep an interest in the conversation for a person in his station; and, in fact, the bright boy alluded to by Mr. Winston, as having corrected the reverend gentleman respecting the quotation from Chaucer, was no other than our friend Charlie Ellis.

" "She would, my dear Molly, and what's more, she would scorn me for using such a hackneyed quotation."

It would be very difficult to convey a just idea of this volume either by narrative or by quotation.

When I read your quotation from the twenty-fourth chapter of Genesis, made for the purpose of showing that God allowed Abraham to have slaves, I could not but wonder at your imprudence, in meddling with this chapter, which is of itself, enough to convince any unbiased mind, that Abraham's servants held a relation to their master and to society, totally different from that held by Southern slaves.

But this he was not; and, therefore, your quotation is vain.

" In bringing the whole verse into this last quotation, I may have displeased you.

It is the devil, who, in a garbled quotation from the Scriptures, lays down, in unlimited terms, the proposition, that God will keep his children.

"Old memories are spectres that do seem to chase the soul out of the world,"an old quotation which may be admitted without embracing the metaphysical paradox, that "subjective thought is the poison of life," or conceding the sharp sneer of the cynic "Know, ye who for your pleasures gape, Man's life at best is but a scrape.

Our quotation is from memory, but correct as to simile and substance; and we consider the remark not less striking than quaint.

Hirsutus had no other reason for the valuing or slighting a book, than that it was printed in the Roman or the Gothic letter, nor any ideas but such as his favourite volumes had supplied; when he was serious he expatiated on the narratives "of Johan de Trevisa," and when he was merry, regaled us with a quotation from the "Shippe of Foles.

The letter "oe" displays as a single character, and apostrophes and quotation marks are "curly" or angled.

The three long French passages still have the appropriate accents, but apostrophes and quotation marks will be straight ("typewriter" form).

A single date, quotation, or note, apparently insignificant, has often cost me hours and sometimes days of labor.

The book is crammed with passages that arouse and maintain pleasure in the reader and clamour for quotation on the part of the reviewer.

"At the last judgment"it was a favorite quotation with him"the book of our conscience will be read aloud before the whole company.

But the old lady, deep in her game, paid no more heed to his quotation than to him.

"A Quotation " ".

peculiarities of Pronunciation, importance of an early habit of distinct how best taught to children Pronunc., as distinguished from elocution, what; how differs from articulation Pronunc. of the Eng. lang., what knowledge requires; its difficulties; whether we have any system of, worthy to be accounted a STANDARD Proof-texts, not to be perverted in the quotation, Crit.

Quotation, direct, first word of, written with capital Quotations of proof-texts, &c., should be literally given dependent, separated from say, &c., by comma indep., preceded by colon Quotat.

Il faut que cela, vient de moi, as a woman once said to me, speaking of her caprices; a quotation, a chance word heard in an unexpected quarter.

And certainly an apt quotation is one of the most effective decorations of a public speech; but the dangers of inappositeness are correspondingly formidable.

I have always heard that the most infelicitous quotation on record was made by the fourth Lord Fitzwilliam at a county meeting held at York to raise a fund for the repair of the Minster after the fire which so nearly destroyed it in 1829.

"In the midst of life we are in death" is a favourite quotation from this imaginary Scripture.

And, when an indignant remonstrance was addressed to the editor, he blandly said that he certainly had not understood the phrase, but imagined it must be "a quotation from an old writer.

To give the impression of quotation may have been a part of George Eliot's purpose in writing these mottoes, which are original enough, and thoughtful enough, to have been attributed to any of the great poets.

1786 examples of  quotation  in sentences