128 Verbs to Use for the Word quotation

He cites himself under important, Mrs. Lennox under talent, Garrick under giggler; from Richardson's Clarissa, he makes frequent quotations.

et seq., gives some quotations from them, as by Munday and Chettle.

He remembered having once read a quotation from a great writer,"When God says, 'You must not lie and you do lie, it is not possible for Deity to sweep his law aside and say'No matter.'" Did God make no allowances for the nineteenth century?

Lamb uses this quotation in his Elia essay on the South-Sea House.

The Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians and the Martyrium S. Ignatii contain the following quotations: Exact.

the Ramblin' Kid interrupted, looking up quickly and straight into the eyes of Carolyn June as he finished the contemptuous quotation of her words, spoken the day before at the corral.

Another Socialist paper which denounced this campaign of lies in its columns deserves quotation.

Had Boswell continued the quotation from Priestley's Illustrations of Philosophical Necessity he would have shown that though Priestley could not hate the rioters, he could very easily prosecute them.

The serious imitators of Johnson's style, whether intentionally or by the imperceptible effect of its strength and animation, are, as I have had already occasion to observe, so many, that I might introduce quotations from a numerous body of writers in our language, since he appeared in the literary world.

Elsewhere in the city we find incised quotations from his poem; but the Baptisteryhis "beautiful San Giovanni"is the only building in the city proper now remaining which Dante would feel at home in could he return to it, and where we can feel assured of sharing his presence.

" "My verdict," said Mr. Bellingham, "is fiat experimentum, though I won't complete the quotation, as that would seem to disparage Doctor Barnard's piano.

His instance will bear quotation: It is evil putting strong Wine into weake vesselles, that is to say, it is evil trusting some women with weightie matters.

"For fools rush in where angels fear to tread"; "To err is human, to forgive divine"; "A little learning is a dangerous thing,"these lines, and many more like them from the same source, have found their way into our common speech, and are used, without thinking of the author, whenever we need an apt quotation.

That is always the objection made to any reasonable discussion of the warand as most of us are denied access to German papers, it is difficult to produce quotations; and even when one does, there are plenty of fools to suggest and believe that the entire German Press is an elaborate camouflage.

"Would you like to hear my favorite quotation from Scripture?"

By simple unpleasant obstinacy she had forced her mother to give her this volume for a birthday present, having seen a quotation from it in a ladies' magazine.

As the first Place among our English Poets is due to Milton; and as I have drawn more Quotations out of him than from any other, I shall enter into a regular Criticism upon his Paradise Lost, which I shall publish every Saturday till I have given my Thoughts upon that Poem.

The Legend of Jane Shore is the most finished of all his works, from which I have taken a quotation.

Lalaing does not give his references, and I cannot therefore verify his quotations.

Revised edition of 1917, omitting illustrative quotations from literature, not so good as editions before that date.

And, in order to pull away all the scaffolding of your accusation, there is only one thing to be done: to restore what precedes and what follows your quotations, in a word, to substitute the text complete as opposed to your cutting.

We should naturally place this quotation in the second column of our classified arrangement, as presenting a slight variation.

The press-reader sends me two valuable quotations, through Latham's edition of Johnson's Dictionary, from Dr. H. Hammond (1605-1660), in which windlass is used as a verb: 'A skilful woodsman, by windlassing, presently gets a shoot, which, without taking a compass, and thereby a commodious stand, he could never have obtained.

There is only space to insert a few disconnected quotations: Now, what is Judge Douglas's popular sovereignty?

Turning from these objections and comparing the Clementine quotation first with the text of St. Matthew and then with that of St. Luke, we cannot but be struck with its very close resemblance to the former and with the wide divergence of the latter.

128 Verbs to Use for the Word  quotation