Governors

Examples

• The trouble was with the governors. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I ask your pardons, Governors,' replied the ghost, as before, 'but probable you was not aware your door stood open. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I then put up a long shaft, connecting all the governors together, and thought this would certainly cure the trouble; but it didn't. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Besides which, I think the wine of them two Governors was--I will not say a hocussed wine, but fur from a wine as was elthy for the mind. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Now there are occasions on which the governors and the governed meet together,--at festivals, on a journey, voyaging or fighting. Plato. The Republic.
• I ask your pardons, Governors,' replied the ghost, in a hoarse double-barrelled whisper, 'but might either on you be Lawyer Lightwood? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Now, I'm blest if I understand you, Governors Both,' said the informer, in a creeping manner: propitiating both, though only one had spoken. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• South of these stood Bambyce, with its huge temples and priestly governors. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It made also governors of States, members of the cabinet, foreign ministers and other officers of high rank both in state and nation. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• There's two Governors, ain't there? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Yes, I will,' said the man; 'and I don't deceive you, Governors. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The French noblesse chose to have the people '_sans culottes_,' and they had '_sans culotte_' governors to their hearts' content. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• There is a similar irony in the argument that the governors of mankind do not like being in office, and that therefore they demand pay. Plato. The Republic.
• The keepers of those houses or castles might be considered as a sort of military governors. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Out of a tumultuous medley appeared the common theme of public opinion--that the leaders should lead, that the governors should govern. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The different governors of the universities, before that time, appear to have often granted licences to their scholars to beg. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Hereunto the ghost again hoarsely replied, in its double-barrelled manner, 'I ask your pardons, Governors, but might one on you be Lawyer Lightwood? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• His lordship was one of the governors of that famous old collegiate institution called the Whitefriars. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• If you think necessary call on the governors of States to send a force into Louisville to meet the enemy if he should cross the river. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In this way, by straining the whole outfit up to its elastic limit in opposite directions, the torsion was practically eliminated, and after that the governors ran together all right. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It is not true there is no common interest in such an organization between governed and governors. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• All right, Governors Both,' returned the ghost, carefully closing the room door; ''tickler business. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Minor governors carved out smaller states. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• At the station at Milan, Italy, the first 'Jumbos' operated in multiple arc were driven by Porter-Allen engines, and dash-pots were applied to the governors. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Governors Both,' returned the man, in what he meant to be a wheedling tone, 'which on you might be Lawyer Lightwood? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• You are a sculptor, Socrates, and have made statues of our governors faultless in beauty. Plato. The Republic.
• Yes, I will,' he repeated, 'and I don't deceive you, Governors. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

Typist: Sol