Returns

Examples

• A forfeit--a forfeit, shouted the robbers; a Saxon hath thirty zecchins, and returns sober from a village! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• My dear George, returns the elder, concentrating his strong steady brow upon him and smiling confidently, leave that to me, and let me try. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• If Mr. Hartright returns to England, hold no communication with him. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Why, what I may think after dinner, returns Mr. Jobling, is one thing, my dear Guppy, and what I may think before dinner is another thing. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The making out of provision returns was stopped for the time. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In all the different employments of stock, the ordinary rate of profit varies more or less with the certainty or uncertainty of the returns. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I only said I wouldn't go without one of the servants came up to Sir Leicester Dedlock, returns Mr. Smallweed. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I shall be very happy, returns the iron gentleman, to give my best attention to anything Lady Dedlock does me the honour to say. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Royalty payments must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax returns. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• That may not be the whole question, returns Vholes, The question may branch off into what is doing, what is doing? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I know there is such a stationer, returns Mr. Jobling. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• George, returns Mr. Bagnet, will never desert. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Mr. Guppy, slightly nudging his friend to take another look, makes a shuffling bow to Mr. Tulkinghorn, who returns it with an easy nod. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• You can, returns Richard. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• If the magnet is allowed to remain at rest within the coil, the needle returns to its zero position, showing that the current has ceased. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Mr. Snagsby lifts his hat and returns to his little woman and his tea. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It's me, returns the old man of the house, whose breath is in his ear. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Mother, returns the trooper, is it too soon to ask a favour? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Oh, yes, you tell me so, returns Grandfather Smallweed. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• No, returns his friend; if it's nothing worse than this, I withdraw the observation. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Again the old question returns upon us: Is justice or injustice the more profitable? Plato. The Republic.
• My dear friend, I am afraid he will, returns the old man, looking up at him like a pygmy. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Then here's your hat, returns his new friend, quite as intimate with it as if he had made it; and if you're ready, I am. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I am bound to say, girl, I didn't know who it was,' returns Miss Abbey; 'but I hope it would have been pretty much the same if I had known. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I am not quite myself, returns the trooper; I have been a little put out, Mrs. Bagnet. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The old housekeeper and her son remain until the preparations are complete, and then she returns upstairs. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• There are tremendous sarcasms against a landlord not a hundred miles from Middlemarch, who receives his own rents, and makes no returns. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He is lying thus, apparently forgetful of his newer and minor surprise, when the housekeeper returns, accompanied by her trooper son. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Come wait with me, Vicente said, until the General returns. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Why, bless her, Mat, returns the trooper, I think the higher of her for it! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

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