Item

Examples

• Here is a man who has not forgotten an item in our meetings at Rainbarrow--he is in company with your husband. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• But the last item was long, long, long, in linking itself to the rest. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Item the second came through the postman. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Was he now to be pestered and tripped up upon this or that item? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Mr. Pickwick did not quite understand the last item of description, but, comprehending the first, said 'Yes,' at a venture. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• There is a genuine increment of experience; not another item mechanically added on, but enrichment by a new quality. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• At the instant he fell a remarkable item of natural history leaped to his mind. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Holmes grinned at the last item. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Mrs. Skimpole sighed, I thought, as if she would have been glad to strike out this item in the family attainments. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Then the boy would go to his shop in the caboose, set up the item, print it, and sell it, beating the daily newspapers that might be awaiting the passengers at the end of the ride. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is a suggestive one. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The next was a New York item. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• An interesting item in regard to these cranes is that the load can be moved in three directions at one time, this being accomplished by means of the small car hoist. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The little woman herself is not the least item in his difficulty. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• One item in this account must be underlined here because of its importance in the intellectual life of mankind, the manufacture of paper. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He continued at this task all through Saturday night, and worked steadily on until Sunday afternoon, when he completed a list of nearly six hundred items. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• And he is a poor self-swindler who lies to himself while he reckons the items, and sets down under the head--happiness that which is misery. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Tradition has centered upon the tariff, the trusts, the currency, and electoral machinery as the items of consideration. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• If I knew the items of election expenses I could scare him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It should be borne in mind that each of the following items has been treated as a whole or class, generally speaking, and not as a digest of all the individual patents relating to it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The Golden Dustman seeming to be engaged in some abstruse calculation, Mr Wegg assisted him with the following additional items. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It will be readily understood that numerous manipulations of this kind constitute no small items in the cost of producing high-grade watches. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Let us set down the items of her happiness. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Hardly a day goes by that the journals do not contain some reference to Edison's work or remarks; and the items are generally based on an interview. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The first item in the first Bulletin dealt with the Fire Question, and all through the successive issues runs a series of significant items on the same subject. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The narrative, however, would not be complete without some mention of the general outline of his work, and reference may be made briefly to a few of the chief items. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• When she had entered two or three laborious items in the account-book, Jip would walk over the page, wagging his tail, and smear them all out. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• It will also have been noted that he used the telegraph to get items for his little journal, and to bulletin his special news of the Civil War along the line. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• His own movements about the locality, his journeys abroad, the tales of his friends, give the ties which hold his items of information together. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The book is numbered 184, falls into the period now dealt with, and runs along casually with items spread out over two or three years. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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