Citations:address

English citations of address

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• 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.

  Then did Christian address himself to go back; and Evangelist, after he had kissed him, gave him one smile, and bid him God-speed.

• 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.

  The hand in which he wrote the address was not a steady one, but write it he did, somehow, and went down-stairs to open the street door, ready for the coming of the poulterer's man. As he stood there, waiting his arrival, the knocker caught his eye.

• 1851 — Herman Melville. Moby Dick.

  "The Spermacetti Whale found by the Nantuckois, is an active, fierce animal, and requires vast address and boldness in the fishermen." — THOMAS JEFFERSON'S WHALE MEMORIAL TO THE FRENCH MINISTER IN 1778.

  In fact, I was so afraid of him that I was not game enough just then to address him, and demand a satisfactory answer concerning what seemed inexplicable in him.

  Tell them to address all future letters to the Pacific ocean! and this time three years, if I am not at home, tell them to address them to — "