Terms

Examples

• We have been speaking of life in its lowest terms--as a physical thing. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The interview here ended, I agreeing, however, to send a letter giving final terms by ten o'clock that night. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Before the invention of the art of printing, a scholar and a beggar seem to have been terms very nearly synonymous. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The terms were severe, but they left it possible for her to hope for an honourable future. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Penelope Betteredge (the only one of the women with whom I was on friendly terms) passed, and noticed what I was about. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Reduced to its barest, crudest terms, the proposition of magnetic separation is simplicity itself. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Are division and animosity your natural terms, Richard? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Many cases are on record where the mental life is a lmost exclusively in visual, in auditory, or in motor terms. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• For that is a contradiction in terms, and suppose that the senses continue to operate, even after they have ceased all manner of operation. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• But it does not become bound to admit them upon any better terms than those of any other nation, of France or Holland, for example. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I can see already that he means to live on excellent terms with all of us during the period of his sojourn in this place. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• There was just such an informality in the terms of the bequest as to give me no hope from law. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• To be on good terms with St. Mark, seems to be the very summit of Venetian ambition. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• They take with them a quantity of food, and when the commissary department fails they skirmish, as Jack terms it in his sinful, slangy way. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Such was the supposed instability of government, that even these terms procured few purchasers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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