Themes
[θiːmz] or [θimz]
Examples
- With curious readiness did she adapt herself to such themes as interested him. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The phonograph was now fairly launched as a world sensation, and a reference to the newspapers of 1878 will show the extent to which it and Edison were themes of universal discussion. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The mammoth and the horse are among the commonest themes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The corruption of our hearts, the evil of our ways, the curse that is upon us, the terrors that surround us--these were the themes of my childhood. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The theatre and the public-house were the chief themes of the wretched man's wanderings. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It is astonishing to me now, how I found time, in the midst of my porings and blunderings over heavier themes, to read those books as I did. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- On one--only one--of her favorite themes she was disappointed. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Children, you know, have little reflection, or rather their reflections run on ideal themes. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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