Masters

Examples

• And you talk of the tyranny of the masters! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Landlords and farmers, besides, two of the largest classes of masters, have another reason for being pleased with dear years. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Yet Arnold calls them 'The young, light-hearted masters of the wave. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The measure of our self-consciousness will more or less determine whether we are to be the victims or the masters of change. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Ask some of your masters. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• One tries to serve two masters at once. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• They would extract good from the excess of evil,[440] and presently France would fall back helpless into the hands of her legitimate masters. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He raised himself in his stirrups with an air of inexpressible dignity, and exclaimed, What means this, my masters! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• We were always encouraged to read, and had all the masters that were necessary. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Happy people, who enjoy so many living examples of ancient virtue, and have masters ready to instruct them in the wisdom of all former ages! Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• See if we don't dang th' masters this time. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• This is one of the old masters. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• They are always trying at it; they always have it in their minds and every five or six years, there comes a struggle between masters and men. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Why, they were never masters of anything liquid larger than a puddle. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

Editor: Rufus