Deeds
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Examples
- Except bills of exchange, and some other mercantile bills, all other deeds, bonds, and contracts, are subject to a stamp duty. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The troops engaged in them will have to look to the detailed reports of their individual commanders for the full history of those deeds. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- These things and deeds are diametrically opposed: they are as distinct as is vice from virtue. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Think of the deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- If any good should come of me, I might begin to hope; for nothing but harm has ever come of my deeds yet. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Great and exalted deeds are what he lives to perform. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I have known it do as bad deeds, and worse, many a time. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He sees no farther than his own straight nose, else he would be more cautious in his deeds, and less daring in his words. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- That is the wickedest of your deeds. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Dunnot be a fool, says he, words come readier than deeds to most men. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- That of the greater part of deeds of other kinds, is frequently inconvenient and even dangerous to individuals, without any advantage to the public. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Most men do a little regret and resent their good deeds, and find a secret satisfaction in their unpunished bad ones. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Let them hope for perpetual peace and harmony with that enemy, whose manhood, however mistaken the cause, drew forth such herculean deeds of valor. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Our deeds still travel with us from afar, And what we have been makes us what we are. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Typist: Melba