User:Vildricianus/Quotations

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  • 1837: Samuel Johnson, The Life of Cowley
    By this abruption posterity lost more instruction than delight. Johnson, Life of Cowley.
  • 1996: Richard Taruskin, Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions, p. 336
    After a startling abruption and a slow recovery, the canonic process is resumed at [7], with a whole slew of redundant entries on the last phrase.
  • 1888: James Sully, Outlines of psychology, p. 114
    Every stimulus must reach a certain intensity before any appreciable sensation results. This point is known as the threshold or liminal intensity.
  • 1999: Sarah Iles Johnston, Restless Dead, p. 209
    Second, spaces such as the threshold of a door are “liminal,” lying between otherwise defined areas without belonging to either of them.
  • 1872: John Bunyan, The Complete Works of John Bunyan, p 133
    Some of the wards were veritable "bedlams," and dis-charged patients have told of abuses practiced in them of which the mere recital causes a shudder.
  • 2002: Mark L. Friedman, Everyday Crisis Management, p 134
    The outside of the Hyatt was bedlam. There was a group of more than a hundred injured people on the circular drive in front of the hotel.
  • 1893: Horatio Alger, Jr., Facing the World
    Just across the field stood a small house. In the yard the week's washing was hung out. Among the articles was a red tablecloth.
  • 1969: United States Congress, Federal Railroad Safety Act of 1969
    In 1968 there were 1547 grade crossing fatalities. Two-thirds of the total fatalities associated with railroad operations occurred at grade crossings.
  • 1993: Carl L. Withner, The Cattleyas and Their Relatives: A Book in Six Parts
    Brieger and his associates first divide the subtribe Epidendrinae (...) into what could be called series, distinguishing four such series in the subtribe.
  • 2006, June 5, CNN.com [1]
    In fact, ski resorts and ski resort towns throughout the West make a point of trying to attract visitors in the offseason, usually spring and summer.
  • 1827: John Keble, The Christian Year
    ...but Thou wilt grace The single heart to be Thy sure abiding-place.
  • 1843: Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit
    He was ten good miles from the village made illustrious by being the abiding-place of Mr Pecksniff, when he stopped to breakfast at a little roadside alehouse;
  • 1849: Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
    Mr. Spenlow conducted me through a paved courtyard formed of grave brick houses, which I inferred, from the Doctors' names upon the doors, to be the official abiding-places of the learned advocates of whom Steerforth had told me;
  • 1856: Wilkie Collins, After Dark
    The reproach of the world is terrible even in the crowded city, where many of the dwellers in our abiding-place are strangers to us
  • 1857: Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays
    The other shelves, where they had not been cut away and used by the owner for other purposes, were fitted up for the abiding-places of birds, beasts, and reptiles.
  • 1857: Elizabeth Gaskell, Life of Charlotte Bronte
    These things make one feel, as well as know, that this world is not our abiding-place.
  • 1871: Thomas Hardy, Desperate Remedies
    It is a beginning, and, above all, an abiding-place, away from the shadow of the cloud which hangs over us here
  • 1876: George Eliot, Daniel Deronda
    The deliverer's footstep must be near -- the deliverer who was to rescue Mordecai's spiritual travail from oblivion, and give it an abiding-place in the best heritage of his people.
  • 1880–1881, Thomas Hardy, A Laodicean; or, The Castle of the De Stancys. A Story of To-day. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, […], published 1881, →OCLC, book the:
    , Book III, Chapter 7
    ...for having no other commission he determined (...) to make, as before, the castle itself his office, studio, and chief abiding-place till the works were fairly in progress.
  • 1885: Walter Pater, Marius the Epicurean, Vol. II,
    Marius felt that his own thoughts were passing beyond the actual intention of the speaker; not in the direction of any clearer theoretic or abstract definition of that ideal commonwealth, but rather as if in search of its visible locality and abiding-place, the walls and towers of which, so to speak, he might really trace and tell, according to his own old, natural habit of mind.
  • 1886: George Gissing, Demos
    In those days it had seemed fast in the order of things that Wanley Manor should be his home through life; how otherwise? Was it not the abiding-place of the Eldons from of old?
  • 1886: Andrew Lang, Books and Bookmen
    Innocent or guilty, this world was no longer a fit abiding-place for Margaret Sherioux.
  • 1889: Walter Pater, Appreciations, With An Essay on Style
    Now what is true of it everywhere, is truest of it in those secluded valleys where one generation after another maintains the same abiding-place...
  • 1902: Joseph Conrad, End of the Tether
    The white wood packing-case under the bed-place had remained unopened for three years now, as though Captain Whalley had felt that, after the Fair Maid was gone, there could be no abiding-place on earth for his affections.
  • 1913: Pauline Johnson, The Moccasin Maker
    The next girl married in Ohio, and the boys drifted away, glad to escape from a parental tyranny that made home anything but a desirable abiding-place.
  • 1859: Henry Barnard, Pestalozzi and Pestalozzianism
    And on the other hand, fatherly and childlike feelings in the national spirit, are the sources of all pure national blessings.
  • 1894: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Lessings Nathan Der Weise
    He certainly has childlike simplicity, and all the qualities which go to make up a true Christian character.
  • 1847: Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Princess
    Now should men see / Two women faster welded in one love / Than pairs of wedlock.
  • 1649: John Milton, Eikonoklastes
    A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.
  • 1890: George Henry Rohé, Text-book of hygiene
    Well-cultivated soils are often healthy; nor at present has it been proved that the use of manure is hurtful.
  • 1996: Laura Erickson, Sharing the Wonder of Birds with Kids
    Many seed-eating birds also need animal fat and protein which they obtain from insects, animal carcasses, and suet.
  • 1998: Alan Pistorius, Everything You Need to Know About Birding and Backyard Bird Attraction
    Some jays, chickadees, nuthatches, and titmice regularly feed at suet; others seem never to indulge.
  • 1997: Dhun H. Sethna, Investing Smart
    (...) and it is their words and wisdom, accumulated over long periods of syntopical reading, that make up this text.
  • 1603: Ben Jonson, Sejanus
    And thus he leaves the Senate / Divided and suspended, all uncertain.
  • 1677: Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
    He asserted, that this gland is so suspended in the midst of the brain, that it could be moved by the slightest motion of the animal spirits: further, that this gland is suspended in the midst of the brain in as many different manners, as the animal spirits can impinge thereon; and, again, that as many different marks are impressed on the said gland, as there are different external objects which impel the animal spirits towards it; whence it follows, that if the will of the soul suspends the gland in a position, wherein it has already been suspended once before by the animal spirits driven in one way or another, the gland in its turn reacts on the said spirits, driving and determining them to the condition wherein they were, when repulsed before by a similar position of the gland.
  • 1871: Thomas Hardy, Desperate Remedies
    A little like other men of his temperament, to whom, it is somewhat humiliating to think, the aberrancy of a given love is in itself a recommendation.
  • 1905: Hugo de Vries, Species and Varieties: Their Origin by Mutation
    In some cases this fissure extends to the petals of the flowers, and changes them in a way quite analogous to the aberrancy of the leaves.
  • 1867: George Rawlinson, The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World
    On the east the high mountain-chain of Zagros, penetrable only in one or two places, forms a barrier of the most marked character, and is beyond a doubt the natural limit for which we are looking.
  • 1900: Arthur M. Mann, The Boer in Peace and War
    A Boer may know you, but it will take you some time to know him, and when a certain stage in your acquaintance is reached, you may begin to wonder whether his real nature is penetrable at all.
  • 1996: Peter Carruthers & Peter K. Smith, Theories of Theories of Mind
    A capacity is cognitively penetrable in this sense if that capacity is affected by the subject's knowledge or ignorance of the domain.
  • 1614: Sir Walter Raleigh, History of the World
    The Earl of March, following the plain path which his father had trodden out, despoiled Henry the father, and Edward the son, both of their lives and kingdom.
  • 1667: John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 9, 410-11
    To intercept thy way, or send thee back / Despoiled of innocence, of faith, of bliss.
  • 1849: Thomas Macaulay, History of England, Chapter 20
    A law which restored to them an immense domain of which they had been despoiled.
  • 1845: Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil; or, The Two Nations
    But the other great whig families who had obtained this honour, and who had done something more for it than spoliate their church and betray their king, set up their backs against this claim of the Egremonts.
  • 1994: Noah M. Lemos, Intrinsic Value
    On such a view, the despoilment of pristine wilderness is the loss of something intrinsically good.
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