Representations

Examples

• Later on there was more grace and less coarseness in the human representations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And surely these odious tradesmen might be made to understand that, and to wait, if you would make proper representations to them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I feel that especially about representations of women. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Your representations have weight with me; and to prove that they have, should he come this way I will speak to him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Now, let me ask you girls and boys, Would you paper a room with representations of horses? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• What proof have you of the truth of these representations? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• At first this, and her terrific screams, were all that could be got from Rachael, by any tears, by any prayers, by any representations, by any means. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The rest yielded to Miss Ophelia's urgent representations, that their master's safety depended on their stillness and obedience. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• He was nerving himself to this rigor as he rode from Brassing, and meditated on the representations he must make to Rosamond. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I'll explain to you, then,' said the gentleman, after another and a dismal pause, 'why you wouldn't paper a room with representations of horses. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• He visited the Quaker, in high anger; but, being possessed of uncommon candor and fairness, was soon quieted by his arguments and representations. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• That Mr. Woodcourt had only quieted the man by undertaking to come to our house very early in the morning with these representations. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• So you would carpet your room—or your husband's room, if you were a grown woman, and had a husband—with representations of flowers, would you? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Lord Southdown, it was said, had been induced to give many hundreds through these pathetic representations. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• You must come, certainly--to confront him, so that he may make no false representations to me. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The silent drama, however, calls also for many representations which employ conventional acting, staging, and the varied appliances of stagecraft. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• There are pre-dynastic Neolithic Egyptian representations of Nile ships of a fair size, capable of carrying elephants. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In some canneries common corn is whitened with sulphurous acid, and is then sold under false representations. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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