Authors
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Examples
- And the bulk of your fortune would be laid out in annuities on the authors or their heirs. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Some authors have maintained that the amount of variation in our domestic productions is soon reached, and can never afterward be exceeded. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The doctrine of the origin of our several domestic races from several aboriginal stocks, has been carried to an absurd extreme by some authors. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Forgive my enthusiasm; I am becoming excited; but when I see her trampled underfoot, I am angry at the authors of her disgrace. Plato. The Republic.
- I mentioned, it is true, with fear and trembling, the only authors I had ever read upon those subjects. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Lyell and other authors have ably treated this subject. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Different authors gave different systems, both of natural and moral philosophy. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The authors of the book are profoundly conscious of the fact that the extraordinary period of electrical development embraced in it has been prolific of great men. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I brought Authors, and I dare say Miss Kate knows something new and nice. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- If so, the authors of the _Iliad_ hid the motives of their characters very skilfully. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And, after all, authors' heroines are almost as good as authoresses' heroes. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- These authors seem no more startled at a miraculous act of creation than at an ordinary birth. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- This is the only instance showing any indication of impatience that the authors have found in looking through the enormous mass of laboratory notes. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Some authors believe that long-continued domestication eliminates this strong tendency to sterility in species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Of the Greek authors who at the Renaissance brought a new life into the world Plato has had the greatest influence. Plato. The Republic.
- Let's have a sensible game of Authors to refresh our minds, proposed Jo. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- These varieties, moreover, will often be ranked by some authors as species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Their melancholy is soothing, and their joy elevating to a degree I never experienced in studying the authors of any other country. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Adults being the formulators of the symbolism are naturally the authors and controllers of the technique. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He had chosen this work, he said, because the declamatory style was framed in imitation of the eastern authors. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- This co-operation in no sense relieves the authors of responsibility as to any of the views or statements of their own that the book contains. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Some authors have even supposed that, as the individual has a definite length of life, so have species a definite duration. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The object of the present narrative and the space at the authors' disposal, however, do not permit of more than a brief mention of his experiences. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Authors of the highest eminence seem to be fully satisfied with the view that each species has been independently created. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Other authors have thus hypothetically bridged over every ocean, and united almost every island with some mainland. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It has been computed by different authors at a fifth, at a tenth, at a twentieth, and at a thirtieth, part of that value. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- A few years ago, when Edison had received the Albert medal of the Royal Society of Arts, one of the present authors called at the laboratory to see it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This view has been ably maintained by many authors. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The author gives the history of one in 1687; another horrible one, in 1692, is described by several anonymous authors. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Many similar cases of analogous variation have been observed by Naudin in the great gourd family, and by various authors in our cereals. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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