Counts

Examples

• It is speed that counts. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I don't see that the illness counts so much, after that. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• We had to stop playing finally because Dan got to sleeping fifteen minutes between the counts and paying no attention to his marking. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Every time these things spin, he would learn, it counts as a prayer. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Counts Egmont and Horn were executed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He knows too much about me, unless he could know more, and so prove to himself that what he now knows counts for nothing. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The action is incessant, for in any dramatic representation intended for the motion-picture film every second counts. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• A progressive society counts individual variations as precious since it finds in them the means of its own growth. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Any one who lives either by the sea or by the land knows that it is the moon and not the month which counts, the soldier who was cooking said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Ye know that, said Tom; I don't pretend none of your snivelling ways, but I won't lie in my 'counts with the devil himself. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• He has confronted many a serious physical risk, and counts himself lucky to have come through without a scratch or scar. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Their leaders, however, styled themselves Counts of Asia Minor. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Evidently, said I, Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• But I fear my Ellen counts on Mr. Archer herself. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• But spiritually, there is pure difference and neither equality nor inequality counts. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• But my poor father is dying and counts the minutes of my absence, or I could have found one to please you. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• They're all Counts--hang 'em! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Results, conduct, are what counts; they afford the sole measure of morality. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• What had a person devoted to a serious calling, that of education, to do with Counts and Countesses, hotels and ch?teaux? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Pseudo-counts, patriarchal knights, islands of fantasy, hintings of dangers. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Of course, in an obvious census like that of the number of people personal bias counts for so little that it is lost in the grand total. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It had no dukes, princes, counts, nor any sort of title-bearers claiming to ascendancy or respect as a right. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And they counts my money and tickets, when I gets home, to see if I 's got the change; and if I han't, they half kills me. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• But as to counts, marquises, dukes, earls, and the like, I was not so scrupulous. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• But this counts for little among the green Martians, as parental and filial love is as unknown to them as it is common among us. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.

Editor: Shanna