Debates

Examples

• The debates were exciting, and were upon the subject of the situation the South was in at that time, particularly the State of Georgia. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I was telling him, the other day, how much we should be disappointed if he did not take a very active part in the debates. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The violence of our party debates about the new constitution seems much abated, indeed almost extinct, and we are getting fast into good order. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• It is true that the debates of both Houses of Parliament the whole session through, uniformly tended to the protracted deliberation, How not to do it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP I did not allow my resolution, with respect to the Parliamentary Debates, to cool. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• There was a most irritating end to every one of these debates. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• In the debates to which this memorial gave rise, several attempts were made to justify the trade. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Often and often we pursued these debates until the clock pointed to midnight, and the candles were burning down. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The debates had hitherto been long and loud; they had often been protracted merely for the sake of delay. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Politics, as the contributors to the Congressional Record seem to understand it, is a very limited selection of well-worn debates on a few arbitrarily chosen problems. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It might lead to disagreeable bickerings between members of Congress of the East and those of the West in some of their debates. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Day after day passed while we discussed our projects for the evening, and each night was occupied by debates which offered no conclusion. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The debates upon it in Congress went on daily, hand in hand with the Indian business. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• He held no station among the Hands who could make speeches and carry on debates. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.

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