Classic

Examples

• Presently I found myself in Paternoster Row--classic ground this. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• In general, it presents us with an almost complete reversal of the classic doctrine of the relations of experience and reason. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Mixed races produce mixed results, splendid, I own, in many cases, but not so severely unique and classic as would be the case with untamed tribes. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The classic definition of geography as an account of the earth as the home of man expresses the educational reality. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Model one in putty or clay, you could not make a better or straighteror neater; and then, such classic lips and chin--and his bearing--sublime. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It is possible that the influence of a return to classic Greek pagan literature in bringing about this changed mind has been overestimated. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Between a sallow dictionary and worn-out grammar would magically grow a fresh interesting new work, or a classic, mellow and sweet in its ripe age. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Should there be a classic period to art hereafter, its Pheidias may produce such faces. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• His fine face, classic as that of a Greek statue, seemed actually to burn with the fervor of his feelings. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• This case deserves to be a classic. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The classic Illyssus has gone dry, and so have all the sources of Grecian wealth and greatness. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Every body was anxious to get ashore and visit these classic localities as quickly as possible. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• And Mr. Richard Carstone, who has so meritoriously acquitted himself in the--shall I say the classic shades? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• In its classic form, this theory was expressed by Locke. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The emperor then insisted at least upon a written account of the travels, and so got this classic we treasure. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It describes a sensation in your little nose associated with certain finicking notions which are the classics of Mrs. Lemon's school. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• We would work up the classics famously. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• His best exercises were translations from the classics into English verse. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• They began with classics. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• If the Greek classics are to be read with any benefit by modern men, they must be read as the work of men like ourselves. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The law was codified, the literary examination system was revised, and a complete and accurate edition of all the Chinese classics was produced. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The emperors and dynasties might come and go; the mandarins, the examinations, the classics, and the traditions and habitual life remained. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• His school studies had not much modified that opinion, for though he did his classics and mathematics, he was not pre-eminent in them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Well, but now, Casaubon, such deep studies, classics, mathematics, that kind of thing, are too taxing for a woman--too taxing, you know. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Without the slightest paradox one may say that the classicalist is most foreign to the classics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

Typist: Merritt