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English citations of applies
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- 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
- Thou believest with a false faith; because it taketh justification from the personal righteousness of Christ, and applies it to thy own.
- 1813 — Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- "I am not now to learn," replied Mr. Collins, with a formal wave of the hand, "that it is usual with young ladies to reject the addresses of the man whom they secretly mean to accept, when he first applies for their favour; and that sometimes the refusal is repeated a second, or even a third time. I am therefore by no means discouraged by what you have just said, and shall hope to lead you to the altar ere long."
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:
- "Oh! spite of million villains, this makes me a bigot in the fadeless fidelity of man! — and a black! and crazy! — but methinks like-cures-like applies to him too; he grows so sane again."