Abuses

Examples

• Talk of the _abuses_ of slavery! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• If people will print their abuses of one another, let them do it in little pamphlets, and distribute them where they think proper. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• You must concede that there are abuses, Hawley, said Mr. Hackbutt, foreseeing some political disagreement with his family lawyer. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Walter's introduction in which he says that The Social Contract _showed to those who were eager to be convinced_ that no power was legitimate which was guilty of abuses. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Ah, my love, my love, he said, it is in the subtle poison of such abuses to breed such diseases. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• That such abuses were far from being uncommon, the ancient history of every country in Europe bears witness. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• There are many abuses. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• But there are many abuses still. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• If he abuses my confidence, he commits a dishonourable action, Mr. Copperfield. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• In Great Britain, the abuses which the trustees have committed in the management of those tolls, have, in many cases, been very justly complained of. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In that spiritual autobiography of a searching mind, The New Machiavelli, Wells describes his progress from a reformer of concrete abuses to a revolutionist in method. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But nobody can recover his yesterdays no matter how much he abuses the clock, and no man can expunge the memory of railroads though all the stations and engines were dismantled. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Well, if she abuses you, come to me, and I'll defend you. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Those abuses of the freedom of speech are the exercises of liberty. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Don't palm all your abuses of languages upon me. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Then there must be abuses. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Some ill-conditioned growling fellow may say to me, 'What's the use of these legal and equitable abuses? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

Typist: Phil