Omitting

Examples

• Turkish elements in Russian, Latin in English, Hamitic in Keltic, & so forth; & omitting various Indian, Melanesian & other groups. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Omitting the laboratory structures, it had only about seven houses, the best looking of which Edison lived in, a place that had a windmill pumping water into a reservoir. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I will compress the story as far as may be done without omitting anything vital to the case. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• It's too long, but omitting the passages I've marked will make it just the right length, he said, in a businesslike tone. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Not omitting his wife, who is the other dearest friend I have in the world; and I positively declare I forgot their baby, who is the other. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Therewith Miss Jenny related what had come to pass in the Albany, omitting the few grains of pepper. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• And then I told him my story as I have written it here, omitting only any reference to my love for Dejah Thoris. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.

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