Items

Examples

• 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.
• It would, however, be denying the justice that is Edison's due to omit all mention of two hitherto unnamed items in particular that have added to the world's store of useful devices. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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