Suggestions

Examples

• Have you any suggestions to offer? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• One or another on 'em,' said the turnkey, repudiating beforehand the refusal of all his suggestions. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• His suggestions were finally approved, although they did not immediately find favor in Washington. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Space permits the submission of but a few observations and suggestions on these points:---- _Necessity_ is still the mother of inventions, but not of all of them. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• When the suggestions of hope, however, which must follow here, presented themselves, she could not presume to indulge them. Jane Austen. Emma.
• He offered these friendly suggestions in such a lively way, that we both laughed and I scarcely blushed. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I made suggestions of every kind to get around this phenomenon. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Robert Stephenson was the engineer of this great structure, aided by the suggestions of Fairbairn and other eminent engineers. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• His dreams of the past night, mingled with Cassy's prudential suggestions, considerably affected his mind. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Wright[61] gives us some very stimulating suggestions here. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She was determined to make no further resistance or suggestions. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• We state these considerations here merely as suggestions that have been made of the way in which the association of seedtime and sacrifice arose. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Hence the poverty of their suggestions along educational and artistic lines. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Sam Weller received both of these suggestions with unexpected contempt, and again propounded his question. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I saw no suggestions anywhere. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• After Watt's system was devised, suggestions and experiments as to road locomotives and carriages were made, and other applications came thick and fast. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It was not in Mr. Bulstrode's nature to comply directly in consequence of uncomfortable suggestions. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He also wrote me a letter, making suggestions as to what he would like to have done in support of his movement farther north. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• At best they are tentative; they are suggestions, indications. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But the suggestions run beyond what is, as yet, actually given in experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The Society adopted those suggestions, and the result is, that by sending forth well-printed books, it could now support itself by their sale, without any aid from subscriptions. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Words like justice, harmony, power, democracy are simply empirical suggestions which may produce the good life. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Only by a pupil's own observations, reflections, framing and testing of suggestions can what he already knows be amplified and rectified. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Owen's experiments and suggestions ranged very widely, and do not fall under any single formula. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Andrews, containing suggestions as to future stations, part of which related to the various employees and their duties. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• She tried to communicate her fears to St. Clare; but he threw back her suggestions with a restless petulance, unlike his usual careless good-humor. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Rather, it loses something of its mobility and sensitiveness to suggestions. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Thus primed with the facts, and with the further suggestions of Symington, Fulton repaired to New York. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• A thumb piece or key on the top, and a push button on the side, were the only suggestions of the operative mechanism within. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Suggestions to stop, excuses to eat and to drink, were forever on his lips. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

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