Quotes
[k'wəʊts] or [k'woʊts]
Examples
- John Spargo quotes this statement in his Life. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Comes back and says it's all right and all quiet, and quotes the remark he lately made to Mr. Snagsby about their cooking chops at the Sol's Arms. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Absolutely no clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Osborn in his _Old Stone Age_ quotes with admiration long passages from Lucretius about primitive man, so good and true are they to-day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He's marked thirty-five to one in the quotes, I said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- He is penetrated with the spirit of Plato, and quotes or adapts many thoughts both from the Republic and from the Timaeus. Plato. The Republic.
- His father was the kind of man who delights in a charming woman: who quotes her, stimulates her, and keeps her perennially charming. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
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