Rights

Examples

• For my part, I should like all Europe and America to hear the rights of it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Emigrants have no rights, Evremonde, was the stolid reply. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• It was lynch law of a kind; but in view of the responsibility, this action of the conductor lay well within his rights and duties. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The system was sold to a very wealthy man, and he would never sell any rights or answer letters. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Is the absence of unlimited proprietary rights felt more strongly in the case of personal chattels (such as furniture and ornaments) than in the case of land or machinery? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• In both regulations, the sacred rights of private property are sacrificed to the supposed interests of public revenue. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Closely related to the constitution and just as decadent to-day are the Sanctity of Private Property, Vested Rights, Competition the Life of Trade, Prosperity (at any cost). Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The company was soon swamped with propositions for sale of territorial rights and with other negotiations, and some of these were accompanied by the offer of very large sums of money. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• There was no one in Miss Halcombe's room but Margaret Porcher, who was busy setting it to rights. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Such is the condition of our laws and practice that the patentee in seeking to enforce his rights labors under a terrible handicap. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I love thee as I love liberty and dignity and the rights of all men to work and not be hungry. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I don't know the rights of the story myself--all I know is I got the place. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• His kindness to his little cousin was consistent with his situation and rights: he made her some very pretty presents, and laughed at her. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I believe all moderate men will allow, that they have great force in all disputes concerning the rights of princes. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• They discussed the effect on business of the issue of paper money , various natural phenomena, and kept a sharp look-out for any encroachment on the rights of the people. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• We shall be able to set you to rights in a very short time, I have no doubt, ma'am. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Of course infringers appeared, but he maintained his rights and title as first and original inventor after the most searching trials in court. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• His plan was to create a national telephone system, and so he confined each of his agents to one place, and reserved all rights to connect one city with another. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain ball. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor, to argue the rights of capital than to see its results. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• No one had ever before heard Adrian allude to the rights of his ancestors. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It rises to the surface in slogans like human rights above property rights, the man above the dollar. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• We find that later Babylonia severely limited the rights of property in slaves. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This plan of selling the rights to the states seemed to promise better things for the inventor. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It might be more according to the rights of things, to say Two-thirds; it might be more according to the rights of things, to say Three-fourths. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Mr. Elton's rights, however, gradually revived. Jane Austen. Emma.
• It is largely due to the Patent Law, which justly regards the inventor as a public benefactor, and seeks to make for him some protection in the enjoyment of his rights. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Mr. Giles, who had been feverishly putting the tea-cups to rights, blushed very red, and said that he had had that honour. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• If you haven't the spirit of a mouse to defend your rights, I have. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• On her left were two matrons, with massive foreheads and bonnets to match, discussing Women's Rights and making tatting. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.

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