Adam

Examples

• I remember when we were all reading Adam Smith. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• And, continued Joe Scott, Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I'm glad you're going to keep one or two vanities, just by way of specimens of the old Adam. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Even dear Mr. Godfrey partakes of the fallen nature which we all inherit from Adam--it is a very small share of our human legacy, but, alas! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• And its Adam, doubtless? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I remembered Adam's supplication to his Creator; but where was mine? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• If it was Adam, she would find Adam; if it was the Ark, she would find the Ark; if it was Goliath, or Joshua, she would find them. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The greatest of them lies in the fact that from under this very column was taken the dust from which Adam was made. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Adam kept Eve in the indestructible paradise, when he kept her single with himself, like a star in its orbit. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• For Adam was first formed, then Eve. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Of all the circuses since Adam was born, we had the worst then! Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• To be sensible of having (as we all have, every one of us, all the children of Adam! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• And the old man has not a known relation on earth; who is there to mourn for Adam Bell? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• For him the teachings of Adam Smith and Turgot were idle sophistries. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Remember, that I am thy creature: I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Loker, he said, after a pause, we must set Adams and Springer on the track of these yer; they've been booked some time. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Then Adams crossed the Andes, and started a market-report bureau in Buenos Ayres. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But no sooner was this promotion secured than he started again on his wanderings southward, while his friend Adams went North, neither having any difficulty in making the trip. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Franklin's arrival in Philadelphia finds its parallel in the very modest debut of Adams's friend in Boston. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• For Airy this was a crucial question; but to Adams it seemed unessential, and he failed to reply. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• In 1876 the Adams Cabinet for holding and displaying the photos was invented. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In September, 1845, he gave the results to Chal lis, who wrote to Airy on the 22d of that month that Adams sought an opportunity to submit the so lution personally to the Astronomer Royal. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Adams is going to be called to the bar almost directly, and is to be an advocate, and to wear a wig. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• On August 12, having directed the telescope in accordance with Adams's instructions he again noted the same heavenly body, as a star. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• We had one of those celebrated dinners that only Mr. Childs could give, and I heard speeches from Charles Francis Adams and different people. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Adams started with the assumptions, not im probable, that the orbit of the unknown planet was a circle, and that its distance from the sun was tw ice that of Uranus. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• His friend, Milt Adams, went West with quenchless zest for that kind of roving life and aimless adventure of which the serious minded Edison had already had more than enough. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I am content, last words of John Quincy Adams, uttered February 21, 1848. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Soon tiring of idleness and isolation he sent a cry from Macedonia to his old friend Milt Adams, who was in Boston, and whom he wished to rejoin if he could get work promptly in the East. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It was Adams, of course. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.

Checker: Virgil