Consequences

Examples

• This growth and dying and reproduction of living things leads to some very wonderful consequences. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She and her husband disagree, and unpleasant consequences follow. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Apprehension means dread of undesirable consequences, as well as intellectual grasp. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But I was bound to consider consequences. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Upon no part of Europe did the collapse of the idea of a unified Christendom bring more disastrous consequences than to Germany. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I have committed follies, gentlemen,' said Uriah, looking round with a meek smile, 'and I ought to bear the consequences without repining. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Any inward debate Lydgate had as to the consequences of this engagement which had stolen upon him, turned on the paucity of time rather than of money. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Touch that--and trust to the consequences for the fullest disclosures that can flow from a woman's lips! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I have felt uneasy for the consequences of his being so involved, but I have kept these secrets until now, when I trust them to your honour. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Men are not blamed for such evil actions as they perform ignorantly and casually, whatever may be their consequences. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• He needs to be made conscious of consequences as a justification of the positive or negative value of certain objects. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Now, jump in, and let us see if I can repair the consequences of my own blunder. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• This is another of the consequences of being poor! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• What does she do with those consequences? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• When a wife's relations interpose against a husband who is a gentleman, who is proud, and who must govern, the consequences are inimical to peace. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• When we experience something we act upon it, we do something with it; then we suffer or undergo the consequences. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• For an active participant in the war, it is clear that the momentous thing is the issue, the future consequences, of this and that happening. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But if you have run into debt, you must suffer the consequences, and put aside your monthly income till your bills are paid. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Men outlive their love, but they don't outlive the consequences of their recklessness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Of course if a woman accepts the wrong man, she must take the consequences, and one who does it twice over deserves her fate. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• If I knocked anything down, if I made the least noise, who could say what the consequences might be? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• We cannot do better than quote the words of Hatch to indicate the consequences for educational theory and practice. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• There needs but a very little practice of the world, to make us perceive all these consequences and advantages. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• If we choose the first part of the dilemma, these are the consequences. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• It was eminently superfluous to him to be told that he was reaping the consequences. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• They are inevitable as the spirit and quality of an activity having specific consequences, not as forming an isolated realm of inner consciousness. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I can meet the consequences of my painful, miserable doubts; but it is an effort beyond me to speak of what has caused me so much suffering. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Accordingly the consequences of the theory were only such as were consequent upon the lack of an experimental method. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• H'm--have you considered the consequences if she decides for divorce? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Whoever, after hearing this, shall dare to interfere with me may just take the consequences. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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