Phrases

Examples

• Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The Germans were doubled up with laughter, hearing his strange droll words, his droll phrases of dialect. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I know that no end of phrases could be adduced to show the inclusiveness of the word labor. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Oh, I do think these phrases are too absurdly wonderful. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• A certain set of words and phrases, as much belonging to tourists as the College and the Snuggery belonged to the jail, was always in their mouths. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Marx, we are told, could use phrases like democratic miasma. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Often as not they disguise it under heroic phrases and still louder affirmation, just as most of us hide our cowardly submission to monotony under some word like duty, loyalty, conscience. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The reformer might point to phrases like human welfare which appear in his writings. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• You must penetrate the ponderous vocabulary, the professional cant to the insight beneath or you scoff at the mountain ranges of words and phrases. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Amelia was bewildered by his phrases, but thought him a prodigy of learning. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I took refuge once more in the explanatory phrases with which I had prepared myself to meet the curiosity of strangers. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• But this imperfectly taught woman, whose phrases and habits were an odd patchwork, had a loyal spirit within her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• When she had heard the explanation of the quoted phrases, Mrs. March said sorrowfully. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• She spoke neither French nor English, and I could get no intelligence from her, not understanding her phrases of dialect. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Rosamond found it quite agreeable and caught many of its phrases. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Or could it be that there was a prearranged significance to such phrases as 'fly-paper' and 'hen-pheasant'? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• There is a variety of testimony to the effect that not only musical sounds, but stray words and phrases, were actually transmitted with mediocre, casual success. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• You'll every one of you be hanged at the next assizes, if you don't mind, said Fred, who afterwards laughed heartily as he remembered his own phrases. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Another and another, with broken exclamations, and extravagant phrases, endeavoured to express the intoxicating effect of this wonder of nature. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• But once I attempt to give that inwardness expression, I must use the only weapons I have--abstractions, theories, phrases. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• And will you consent to dispense with a great many conventional forms and phrases, without thinking that the omission arises from insolence? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Our prevailing habit is to think about phrases, ideals, theories, not about the realities they express. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Three phrases, however, he had ready cut and dried, which he never failed to produce:-- 1stly. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Professor Murray thought several phrases used by the writer harsh and unjust. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The few kind words of welcome which she spoke found me hardly self-possessed enough to thank her in the customary phrases of reply. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It is equivalent to our phrases from Maine to Texas --from Baltimore to San Francisco. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• False and boastful conceits and phrases mount upwards and take their place. Plato. The Republic.
• The effort has been made to avoid technique and abstruse phrases, but some degree of explanation has been absolutely necessary in regard to each group of inventions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• One will escape from so much, that is the chief thing, escape so much hideous boring repetition of vulgar actions, vulgar phrases, vulgar postures. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

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