Reads

Examples

• But no one knows so well as the Secretary, who opens and reads the letters, what a set is made at the man marked by a stroke of notoriety. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Doesn't she remind you of Mrs. Scott-Siddons when she reads 'Lady Geraldine's Courtship'? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• One Sunday night my mother reads to Peggotty and me in there, how Lazarus was raised up from the dead. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I certainly have, this morning, received this letter--which he reads aloud--but I hope it may be set right yet. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Shows it to his wife--she reads the label; it goes down to the servants- -_they_ read the label. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• This was the clause--and no one who reads it can fail, I think, to agree with me that it meted out equal justice to all parties. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It was a profound utterance as anyone can testify who reads, let us say, the Congressional Record. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Do you suppose the public reads with a view to its own conversion? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The blank, unornamented coop had nothing about it of that oriental voluptuousness one reads of so much. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Sir Leicester puts her letter in his hands and looks intently in his face while he reads it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He stops hard by Waterloo Bridge and reads a playbill, decides to go to Astley's Theatre. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He gives lessons; that is to say, he reads with young men. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Silas receives one from his hand, which Venus takes from a wonderful litter in a drawer, and putting on his spectacles, reads: '“Mr Venus,”' 'Yes. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Nor can the person who reads one corrupt newspaper and then goes out to vote make any claim to having registered his will. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Let us follow him a moment, as, pointing to each word, and pronouncing each half aloud, he reads, Let--not--your--heart--be--troubled. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• He reads the Agricultural Reports, and some other books that lay in one of the window seatsbut he reads all _them_ to himself. Jane Austen. Emma.
• One reads in vain through the monstrous accumulations of Napoleonic literature for a single record of self-forgetfulness. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She reads it with surprise, and looks down with a new expression and an added interest on the motionless face she kneels beside. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Mr. Tulkinghorn reads again. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• They now arouse a new meaning by inciting the one who hears or reads to rehearse imaginatively the activities in which the helmet has its use. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Miss Jane reads aloud very nicely--but it's so hard to find any one who is willing to be read to. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• His story, with its constant assassinations and executions, reads rather like the history of some savage chief than of a civilized monarch. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Abu Bekr believed in the Prophet, and it is very hard for anyone who reads the history of these times not to believe in Abu Bekr. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Grim and uncompromising as the description reads, it was typical of the equipment in those remote days of the telegraph at the close of the war. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• One reads in the report of the Vice Commission that many public hospitals in Chicago refuse to care for venereal diseases. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It reads almost as though it were an appointment. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Reads it, reads it twice, turns it over to look at the blank outside, reads it a third time. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Some are made to scheme, and some to love; and I wish any respected bachelor that reads this may take the sort that best likes him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It is a common saying that genius can override all obstacles—a mistake which anyone who reads history can perceive. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• After tea Shirley reads, and she is just about as tenacious of her book as she is lax of her needle. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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