Compositions
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Examples
- On scrutiny they proved to be French compositions, written in a hand peculiar but compact, and exquisitely clean and clear. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- And again: Nothing can be more perfectly and beautifully adapted to its object than most of the moral compositions of Dr. Franklin. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- But he fed that furnace and he melted his different compositions. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- She kept his copy-books, his drawings, and compositions, and showed them about in her little circle as if they were miracles of genius. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Inventions in the field of medicine consist chiefly in those innumerable compositions and compounds which have resulted from chemical discoveries. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- We have in vain pored over the leaves of Mr. Pickwick's note-book, in the hope of meeting with a general summary of these beautiful compositions. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He turned his attention afterwards to music; and it was in his attempts to devise some means of printing his compositions economically that he chanced to discover the art of Lithography. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Some of the later books are frankly post-captivity compositions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- One of the most interesting and informing of these prehistoric compositions of the Aryans survives in the Greek _Iliad_. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Many substitutes in the form of compositions of various ingredients have been devised and patented, but no real substitute for nature’s product has yet been found. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The soul, I said, being, as is now proven, immortal, must be the fairest of compositions and cannot be compounded of many elements? Plato. The Republic.
- It is true, that such slight compositions might not suit the severer genius of our friend Mr Oldbuck. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
Editor: Margie