Claims

Examples

• For a short while the world outside of Menlo Park held Edison's claims in derision. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Superiority of birth supposes an ancient superiority of fortune in the family of the person who claims it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Graham, however, must go: his was a profession whose claims are neither to be ignored nor deferred. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Society has claims on us all; and I profess myself one of those who consider intervals of recreation and amusement as desirable for everybody. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• I only wonder that our claims, contending against the superior claims of Mr and Mrs Boffin, had any weight. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Italy claims the honour among European nations of first introducing a machine for sowing grain. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• For if it were, its claims would be incomparable, imperative. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The inclusion of India raised logical claims for French Africa and French Asia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• If you feel towards me, in one particular, as you might if I was a lady, give me the full claims of a lady upon your generous behaviour. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Arkwright withdrew the other suits he had started, and wrote and published his Case, in order to set forth to the world the truth of his claims. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Harriet's claims to marry well are not so contemptible as you represent them. Jane Austen. Emma.
• At first France looked with incredulity and suspicion on the Wrights’ claims. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• On Mrs. Jennings's compassion she had other claims. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• But instead of diminishing their claims to approbation and reward, it places those claims on a more substantial foundation than that of abstract original ideas. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• He now and then slided into my lady, instead of ma'am, as an involuntary acknowledgment of Mrs. Sparsit's personal dignity and claims to reverence. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Of course, he said, for he claims to have more than all men. Plato. The Republic.
• To be thoughtful, considerate, means to heed the claims of others. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I support the man who supports their claims; not the virtuous upholder of the wrong. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• That large decayed oak, he said, marks the boundaries over which Front-de-Boeuf claims authority--we are long since far from those of Malvoisin. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Yes; but we must not rest our claims on that distinction. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Dewar produced the first ounce of liquid air at a cost of $3,000, but that now Mr. Tripler claims that he can produce it by his apparatus for five cents a gallon. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Scores of men claimed to have invented telephones before Bell did, but none ever proved their claims. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• She was in fact in urgent and immediate need of money: money to meet the vulgar weekly claims which could neither be deferred nor evaded. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• And there you have the statement of my claims to fill the position which I occupy in these pages. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Her part in the life outside the gate urged its pressing claims upon her too, and her patience untiringly responded to them. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Hears I have conflicting interests, claims clashing against his and what not. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He thought of everybody's claims and strivings, but his own. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• It is impossible here to trace the events of the ninth and tenth centuries in any detail, the alliances, the treacheries, the claims and acquisitions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Claims even superior to those of my benefactress call me hence. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• You are not just to Harriet's claims. Jane Austen. Emma.

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