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Examples

• He always admitted his blunders, and extenuated those of officers under him beyond what they were entitled to. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The Moor who has made a pilgrimage to Mecca is entitled to high distinction. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• But you are not entitled to know mine; nor will such behaviour as this, ever induce me to be explicit. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• It was entitled, _A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• His chief treatise, entitled the Republic, is at once a treatise on morals, on social organization, and on the metaphysics and science of nature. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• She reaped the reward to which disinterestedness is entitled, and found an agreeable companion in her niece. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• When the plantation indigo was worth three-fourths of the price of the best French indigo, it was, by this act, entitled to a bounty of 6d. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The lawyers told me that there were no relatives alive, and that I was justly entitled to spend the money, so that is how I became rich. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and honour. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• If Edison had done nothing else, his share in the creation of such an industry would have entitled him to a high place among inventors. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The dinginess of her present life threw into enchanting relief the existence to which she felt herself entitled. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• MY DEAR FRIEND Among the pamphlets you lately sent me was one entitled _Thoughts on Executive Justice_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• There was a little money left, but to Mrs. Bart it seemed worse than nothing--the mere mockery of what she was entitled to. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I thought I was entitled to a pass, which they conceded; and I started for Boston. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• With him it is entirely a matter of feeling: he claims no merit in it; perhaps is entitled to none. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Thus supporting himself, he felt entitled to spend any other profit left over on chemicals and apparatus. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• THE WAY TO WEALTH, _As dearly shown in the practice of an old Pennsylvania Almanac, entitled, Poor Richard Improved. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I am almost the nearest relation he has in the world, and am entitled to know all his dearest concerns. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• The labourer was worthy of his hire, but not entitled to an advantage. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A description of the most important of these inventions was published by him in 1795 in a book entitled _The Young Millwright and Miller's Grist_. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• All manufactures of leather may be exported duty free; and the exporter is besides entitled to the drawback of the whole duties of excise. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• You see, I brought my own property and servants into the connection, when I married St. Clare, and I am legally entitled to manage them my own way. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I have bought one of his works myself--a very nice thing, a very superior publication, entitled 'Ivanhoe. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I once had a friend, the most noble of human creatures, and am entitled, therefore, to judge respecting friendship. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I had made up my mind that, taking into consideration the time and killing pace I was working at, I should be entitled to $5000, but could get along with $3000. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• We will nominate Adrian, and do our best to bestow on him the power to which he is entitled by his birth, and which he merits through his virtues. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• She supposed she must say more before she were entitled to his clemency; but it was a hard case to be obliged still to lower herself in his opinion. Jane Austen. Emma.
• His great work is entitled, Monde Primitif, analysé et comparé avec le Monde Moderne, 9 tom. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The subject is crude and fragmentary, though we are entitled to call it promising. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• All men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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