Tim
[tɪm]
Examples
- You incite them to outrage for bad purposes of your own; so does the individual called Noah of Tim's. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He answered-- If you don't think well of me, Tim, never mind; that's neither here nor there now. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But a Tim Sullivan is closer to the heart of statesmanship than five City Clubs full of people who want low taxes and orderly bookkeeping. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Let no man wonder that Lorimer's people do not prefer an efficiency expert, that a Tim Sullivan has power, or that men are loyal to Hinky Dink. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- In his own tim e he was rather reproached for what was c onsidered an undignified and sordid familiarity with observed facts. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- But perhaps, as Plato would say, 'This is part of another subject' (Tim. Plato. The Republic.
- I may as well transcribe it; it contains explanation on more than one point:-- 'DEAR OLD TIM (short for Timon),-- I am off you see--gone like a shot. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Brayvo, Noah o' Tim's! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Plato begins by speaking of a perfect or cyclical number (Tim. Plato. The Republic.
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