Topics

Examples

• Not a word had been spoken during the present session on any of these topics. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Mr. Spenlow and I falling into this conversation, prolonged it and our saunter to and fro, until we diverged into general topics. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• My attention was far from him, and from the topics on which he discoursed so fluently. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• A few other topics of general interest were introduced by Mr. Brooke and wet-blanketed by Mrs. Brooke, and conversation languished. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The trinity of school topics is subject matter, methods, and administration or government. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The statements may help a teacher to a larger vision of the possible results to be effected by instruction in mathematical topics. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• They had a dozen topics in common--interesting to them, unimportant to the rest of the world. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Pupils begin their study of science with texts in which the subject is organized into topics according to the order of the specialist. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Oh,-- the ladies murmured; and Mrs. Archer added, partly to distract her daughter's attention from forbidden topics: Poor Regina! Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I enlarged upon many other topics, which the natural desire of endless life, and sublunary happiness, could easily furnish me with. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Idris conversed with animation on a thousand topics. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The like reserve prevailed on other topics. Jane Austen. Emma.
• They were now approaching the cottage, and all idle topics were superseded. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I think from that day, so long as we continued friends, he never in discourse stood on topics of ceremony with me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• They may release the mind for thought upon other topics. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• She could only speak on these topics from hearsay, but she was reasonably certain of the truth of what little she had to tell. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The talk took refuge in less ominous topics; but everything they touched on seemed to confirm Mrs. Archer's sense of an accelerated trend. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• This was the mastering of the newspaper, so that she might be close up with John on general topics when John came home. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He talked to the ladies by fits and starts, choosing for topics whatever was most intensely commonplace. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Pray excuse the introduction of such mean topics. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He did not do this by common topics of consolation, but by exhibiting the truest sympathy. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I led her at once into speaking on other topics. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Paul, was on these painful topics, he would dare my anger for the sake of my good, and would venture to refer to a change he had noticed in my dress. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The specializations of these topics are for the specialists; their interaction concerns man as a being whose experience is social. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It was his monomania; on all ordinary subjects he was sensible enough, and fain was she to engage him in ordinary topics. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Greece in the days of her glory greatly improved the art, and some of her ablest men wrote valuable treatises on its different topics. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Lily remained at home, lunching and dining alone with her aunt, who complained of flutterings of the heart, and talked icily on general topics. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• On this second day, Mr. Lorry saluted him cheerfully by his name, and spoke to him on topics that had been of late familiar to them. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Slight topics alone might be discussed between them; for with a woman--a girl--Mr. Helstone would touch on no other. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I found the good man had thoroughly studied my Almanacs, and digested all I had dropped on these topics during the course of twenty-five years. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.

Typist: Psyche