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  • They said it was called a skin graft.   (source)
    graft = artificially joining two things
  • Over the years many of us have grafted branches from our favorite trees to the trunk.   (source)
    grafted = artificially joined (so they grow naturally on the different trunk)
  • "One graft should do it, but we can't operate until the tissue heals," he said to the intern, then spoke to the patient.   (source)
    graft = medical transplant of living tissue
  • Still, I wondered whether skin grafts could have achieved what Mother had with her comfrey and lobelia salve.†   (source)
  • She spent weeks in a hospital enduring painful skin grafts that left her terribly scarred.†   (source)
  • They wrapped her in bandages, kept her drugged, and waited for skin grafts.†   (source)
  • The skin grafts still retain a newborn-baby pinkness.†   (source)
  • Abrasions on my legs, which will require skin grafts; and on my face, which will require cosmetic surgery—but, as the doctors note, that is only if I am lucky.†   (source)
  • He couldn't count the number of times he'd hauled furniture around to match the grafts his mother routinely generated.†   (source)
  • But he told this woman he had called her number because he had heard she gave good advice and his problem was that he was about to die from a hideous skin disease because a rat had bitten off his nose when he was a baby and the skin grafts didn't take.†   (source)
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  • The surgeon had also taken skin grafts from my thigh to cover the wound.†   (source)
  • I thought perhaps with skin grafts, even a face transplant, but I did some tests, and ….†   (source)
  • A surgeon allowed Missing to fix complex fractures, remove goiters and other tumors, perform skin grafts for burns, repair strangulated hernias, take out enlarged prostates or cancerous breasts, or drill a hole in the skull to let out a blood clot pressing against the brain.†   (source)
  • He sustained head injuries and needed massive skin grafts on his arms, but he considered the mission a success because the terrified rabbi had fled town.†   (source)
  • One way would be laser treatment, he said, but the tattoo was so extensive and the needle had penetrated so deeply that he was afraid the only realistic solution was a series of skin grafts.†   (source)
  • The skin grafts over the cannon bone had taken.†   (source)
  • Your shoulder will feel a bit sore until the graft is completely healed.   (source)
    graft = artificial join
  • That is, before a new one is grafted on.   (source)
    grafted = artificially joined
  • I wished I could perform a skin graft on Tinkerbell, but that would have meant cutting her into pieces.   (source)
    graft = artificially joining two things
  • I explained that I had gotten it when I was three, and that I'd been in the hospital for six weeks getting skin grafts, and that was why I never wore a bikini.   (source)
  • The trucker rolls up his sleeve to reveal that the arm, which had done the tricks, had been grafted on at the elbow.   (source)
    grafted = artificially joined
  • Skin from the leg was grafted to the face of the burn victim.
  • So her femur was set with pins; skin grafts were taken.†   (source)
  • The grafts still needed checking; he'd had three surgeries alone in the past year.†   (source)
  • One of the few parts of her body that, it seemed, hadn't been hurt in the accident, hadn't been encased in plaster or put together with pins or stitches or touched by skin grafts.†   (source)
  • The men who graft the young trees, the little vines, are the cleverest of all, for theirs is a surgeon's job, as tender and delicate; and these men must have surgeons' hands and surgeons' hearts to slit the bark, to place the grafts, to bind the wounds and cover them from the air.†   (source)
  • There is nothing unusual in the Latin Church in these grafts of one order on another.†   (source)
  • The sweet breezes of this happy clime came refreshingly to our nostrils; we beheld the glimmering gush of silver fountains, overhung by trees of beautiful foliage and delicious fruit, which were propagated by grafts from the celestial gardens.†   (source)
  • Almost all the trees in the orchard were ungrafted, and wild.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in ungrafted means not and reverses the meaning of grafted. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • Through you I drain the pent-up rivers of myself, In you I wrap a thousand onward years, On you I graft the grafts of the best-beloved of me and America, The drops I distil upon you shall grow fierce and athletic girls, new artists, musicians, and singers, The babes I beget upon you are to beget babes in their turn, I shall demand perfect men and women out of my love-spendings, I shall expect them to interpenetrate with others, as I and you inter-penetrate now, I shall count on the…†   (source)
  • The eternal art, educing good from ill, Grafts on this passion our best principle: 'tis thus the mercury of man is fixed, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mixed; The dross cements what else were too refined, And in one interest body acts with mind.†   (source)
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  • He was an enormously rich man—he had a hand in all the big graft in the neighborhood.   (source)
    graft = corruption in which one uses their position to get money or other personal advantage
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  • I looked as if I had been grafted with a pair of elephant legs.†   (source)
  • But where its neck should be was the upper body of my Latin teacher, smoothly grafted to the horse's trunk.†   (source)
  • I just need to hang on long enough for my new skin to graft.†   (source)
  • On each there is one scion grafted onto a rough lemon rootstock.†   (source)
  • And I've given advice on grafting limbs on fruit trees.†   (source)
  • He explained that on Monday I would have another surgery that would take a flap of skin from under my armpit and swing it over, grafting it across the open wound.†   (source)
  • The Corpsmen were really anal about airspace, she said; they suspected everyone of wanting to nuke stuff from above, and you practically had to let them climb into your underpants before they'd let you fly anywhere in a hired copter, unless you were some graft-ridden prince from a Compound, that is.†   (source)
  • The word emergency was clear enough, and my mother bypassed her morning ritual of an early coffee drunk while staring out at the grapevines grafted on row upon row of sturdy white crosses.†   (source)
  • No skin grafting.†   (source)
  • "We're branches grafted on this good tree, Mrs. Price.†   (source)
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  • Burns healed, scars removed, alien metal extracted, skin grafted, flesh regrown, nerves rewoven.†   (source)
  • She remained unclear who had given what to Michael, and when, so she had no real idea exactly how many of their rules against booster graft had been violated.†   (source)
  • It's Greek to Ale 69 Alternatively, you might try grafting their story onto some older story of rivalry and violence, a story where even the victor is ultimately doomed, a story where, despite occasional personal shortcomings, the characters have an unmistakable nobility.†   (source)
  • The antenna has been permanently grafted onto the base of the man's skull.†   (source)
  • Without realizing it herself, she grafted the manner of the man who had humiliated her during the march onto Velutha.†   (source)
  • No more graft!†   (source)
  • Petty crimes embarrass the community and many people wistfully wonder why Negroes don't rob more banks, embezzle more funds and employ graft in the unions.†   (source)
  • Dan looked again at his phone, and Jordan's, which may as well have been surgically grafted to his palm since he was never without it.†   (source)
  • He had grafted AIDS treatment onto Zanmi Lasante's tb program, of directly observed therapy and monthly stipends, and the early results were good—many stories of lives restored and orphanings prevented.†   (source)
  • The plate they had grafted onto his shattered skull was too close to the brain stem to adequately protect him.†   (source)
  • Long ago Grandpa had chopped off limbs and grafted saplings of different fruit.†   (source)
  • Course, there's a couple of hundred you got to pay so's you don't spend your life just waiting for them clowns to let your license get approved— RUTH: You mean graft?†   (source)
  • "Besides the scars on my face," Kristy was saying, "there's also one on my lower back, from the fusion, and a big nasty one on my butt from the skin graft.†   (source)
  • My skin graft looked nasty, the meat visible.†   (source)
  • They stuck tubes into his wrists like grafting on a tree but Death won against the medical artistry.†   (source)
  • He has such skill in his hands, his gift with the care and grafting of trees is unsurpassed.†   (source)
  • He had finished the appendectomy, then two gastro-jejunostomies for peptic ulcer, three hernia repairs, one hydrocele, a subtotal thyroid resection, and a skin graft, but by his standards it had been tortuously slow.†   (source)
  • Then another to graft that skin onto the messed-up leg.†   (source)
  • Like graft other species' DNA into innocent infants."†   (source)
  • I won't hurt you," she murmured, peering at the new skin growing where it had been grafted, still pink and evolving.†   (source)
  • Graft's easy, it's just business.†   (source)
  • Each of the twelve was a testament to the car as art: chopped, channeled, sectioned, grafted, some on dropped spindles, with custom grilles, reconfigured hoods, frenched headlights, raised and flared wheel wells, hand-formed fender skirts.†   (source)
  • We have to pay big graft to keep our franchise.†   (source)
  • Meereenese was harder; its roots were Valyrian as well, but the tree had been grafted onto the harsh, ugly tongue of Old Ghis.†   (source)
  • At first, I think that someone has grafted long braces onto her teeth.†   (source)
  • Any grafter can make money.†   (source)
  • These days I see graft and corruption reach high into government.†   (source)
  • As for the lawyer himself, a dignified white goatee and silver pince-nez above an aquiline nose could not conceal the essential graft in the man.†   (source)
  • The first quarter was given to an orchard the gardeners seemed never able to leave well enough alone; they were always cutting back, grafting, and lifting the soil around the thriving trees.†   (source)
  • "There's plenty of graft to pass around.†   (source)
  • It was like a curious fulfilment of Father Huismans's prophecy about the retreat of African Africa, and the success of the European graft.†   (source)
  • Whole town run by graft.†   (source)
  • He thought upon the days of his recent ministry, when he had sought to graft the teachings of Gotama upon the stock of the religion by which the world was ruled, He thought upon the strange one, Sugata, whose hands had held both death and benediction.†   (source)
  • I'll bet this state farm stuff is political graft game.†   (source)
  • The fact that he alone disdained patronage, petty Congressional graft and favors from lobbyists may have disturbed the politicians, but not the people of Missouri!†   (source)
  • I don't know anything about metabolic medicine, but Hensley says that they are on the verge and that twenty years from now they ought to be able to patch Dad up as easily they can graft on a new leg today.†   (source)
  • Out of that desperation arose his crazy decision to work the bank teller graft.†   (source)
  • His feet were bare, but skin grafting covered the prosthesis.†   (source)
  • I consider the possibilities of grafting the woody stems from one plant to another.†   (source)
  • It's a plant, all right, and valarian was used in the grafting of the specimen.†   (source)
  • He can control these people by grafting radio receivers into their skulls, broadcasting instructions-me—directly into their brainstems.†   (source)
  • Human ears have successfully been grown on the back of rats and then attached to the head of a human by grafting.†   (source)
  • "Maybe I'd get skin grafting."†   (source)
  • It stands on the vest of every fat, pig like figure in every cartoon, for the purpose of denoting a crook, a grafter, a scoundrel-as the one sure-fire brand of evil.†   (source)
  • This was a completely different, foreign world, where kids swarmed freely through a zoo, animals were in habitats and weren't undergoing genetic grafting, and we were strolling along, not hooked up to EEG monitors and blood pressure cuffs.†   (source)
  • Kayla and Austin stood over Connor, debating the need for a hair graft.†   (source)
  • The wings grafted instantly to his back and arms.†   (source)
  • The new bud that we grafted onto the rootstock is called a scion.†   (source)
  • At the base of his neck was the mark I'd seen before-the dark shape of a bird grafted to his skin.†   (source)
  • But having wings grafted onto an Eraser's body wasn't even close to what the flock had.†   (source)
  • My hands were grafted to the sword grip.†   (source)
  • "I imagine the pieces graft together," I said.†   (source)
  • Who had grafted avian DNA into us and why?†   (source)
  • Although the skin-grafted area was bandaged, the pins were visible.†   (source)
  • Considering Simpson's imagination, I'd bet on the standard kickbacks, bribes, and graft."†   (source)
  • These were plans of how to recombine the baby's DNA, graft avian DNA into her stem cells.†   (source)
  • Mara here had Panthera pardus genetic material grafted into her human DNA.†   (source)
  • He'd been sure to provide as much graft—sorry, "campaign finance" money—as he legally could.†   (source)
  • You mean besides seeing how well insane scientists could graft avion DNA into a human egg?†   (source)
  • You were three years old, and they grafted DNA into you and they got a superEraser.†   (source)
  • We were created by scientists, whitecoats, who grafted avian DNA onto our human genes.†   (source)
  • He of course told Leigh Anne and Sean that he really liked Ole Miss—but only after Leigh Anne and Sean explained to him that, if he had any intention of going to Ole Miss, they really ought to go through the process of formally adopting him, so that the many gifts they had already bestowed on him might be construed not as boosters' graft but parental love.†   (source)
  • Do you get the notion we are the branch that's grafted on here, sharing in the richness of these African roots?†   (source)
  • He'll also serve notice that you're prepared to back up your orders against graft—by enforcement from the smugglers' end as well.†   (source)
  • If some of the branches have been broken off, and you who were only a wild olive shoot have been grafted in, and made to share the richness of the olive's root, you must not look down upon the branches.†   (source)
  • It is really based on a very old hack, a loophole that he found years ago when he was trying to graft the sword-fighting rules onto the existing Metaverse software.†   (source)
  • Hawat here estimates that graft and extra fighting men heretofore required in their operations have been costing them four times that amount.†   (source)
  • I didn't till the soil or weed the flowerbeds or try to graft a tree limb; I sat in the shade and listened to my Japanese language instruction.†   (source)
  • Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me — all bearing for someone else to pick.†   (source)
  • I used your body scan to make sure 1 had the right dimensions. if I'd had more time, I could have done a skin graft, but we can't have everything,) suppose."†   (source)
  • Now, I've got roses to graft.†   (source)
  • Narcotics from uncountable hills and fields that could not possibly be patrolled; weapons from subsidiary factories set up through graft; textiles from hundreds of underground plants using stolen machinery and peasant labour crippling those industries in the West.†   (source)
  • It was hard not to be mesmerized by the half-squirrel/halfbass creature or the opossum's head grafted onto the body of a chicken.†   (source)
  • I'd been taken aback at first, freaked out by this sudden ardor, worried that it was going to hurt her, and also, not really wanting to look at the stubbly red scar on her thigh where the skin had been taken for her graft or to bang against the snakeskin-like scar on her other leg, even though she kept that one covered with a pressure bandage.†   (source)
  • …is done, not by consent, but by compulsion-when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing-when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors-when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you-when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice-you may know that your society is doomed.†   (source)
  • If they could graft wings onto those big lunking Erasers, they could definitely patch a pair onto me.†   (source)
  • They were grafted in the Eden Colony.†   (source)
  • Maybe it was sex, maybe it was graft.†   (source)
  • In 1987, the Department of Defense grafted all the military branches' special operations onto one tree.†   (source)
  • Morphing had hurt at first — his lupine DNA wasn't seamlessly grafted into his stem cells, like the other Erasers'.†   (source)
  • Here's the abbreviated version (which is pretty good, I might add): A bunch of mad scientists (mad crazy, not mad angry-though a lot of them do seem to have anger-management issues, especially around me) have been playing around with recombinant life-forms, where they graft different species' DNA together.†   (source)
  • Whole durn country run by graft.†   (source)
  • Oh, I realize his wages are less than a real chauffeur's, but he more than makes up for that, I'm sure, by the graft he gets from the garage on repair bills.†   (source)
  • Or if her father was a grafter, her brothers bums and cardsharks, her mother loose or a spendthrift?†   (source)
  • An old grafting flatfoot and a circus bunco steerer!†   (source)
  • And always they work, selecting, grafting, changing, driving themselves, driving the earth to produce.†   (source)
  • You'll be denounced as a grafter.†   (source)
  • Here y'are, Grafter!†   (source)
  • A plain grafter would be much safer.†   (source)
  • "That Pat McGloin is the biggest drunken grafter that ever disgraced the police force," she used to say to me.†   (source)
  • He looks like an enlarged, elderly, bald edition of the village fat boy—a sly fat boy, congenitally indolent, a practical joker, a born grafter and con merchant.†   (source)
  • This is a kind of grafting in a new position of part of an animal upon itself.†   (source)
  • My man worked in the orange groves in Florida, and he knows all about grafting.†   (source)
  • But it is in the subtle grafting and reshaping one must needs do to the brain that my trouble lies.†   (source)
  • Once, sir, when I was grafting a rose-tree.†   (source)
  • 'But,' asked Ernest, 'where did the slips of good fruit come from, if none grow without grafting?'†   (source)
  • He was a farmer, a cattle man, a grafter of fruit-trees, a breeder of horses, a herder of sheep, a preacher, a physician.†   (source)
  • Pickerbaugh called him a grafter, and the last time Pugh had been elected—it had been on a Reform Platform, though since that time the reform had been coaxed to behave itself and be practical—both Pugh and Pickerbaugh had denounced Jordan as a "malign force."†   (source)
  • But, forced for so many years now, by a sort of grafting process, to share the life of feminine humanity, they called to my mind the figure of the dryad, the fair worldling, swiftly walking, brightly coloured, whom they sheltered with their branches as she passed beneath them, and obliged to acknowledge, as they themselves acknowledged, the power of the season; they recalled to me the happy days when I was young and had faith, when I would hasten eagerly to the spots where masterpieces…†   (source)
  • As no one makes any profit by the sale, there is no longer any stimulus to extravagance, and no misrepresentation; no cheating, no adulteration or imitation, no bribery or 'grafting.'†   (source)
  • Grafting of freshly obtained material from another animal is also possible,—the case of teeth, for example.†   (source)
  • In our growing science of hypnotism we find the promise of a possibility of superseding old inherent instincts by new suggestions, grafting upon or replacing the inherited fixed ideas.†   (source)
  • The grafting of skin and bone is done to facilitate healing: the surgeon places in the middle of the wound pieces of skin snipped from another animal, or fragments of bone from a victim freshly killed.†   (source)
  • Nothing of this triumph reached Fauchelevent in his hut; he went on grafting, weeding, and covering up his melon beds, without in the least suspecting his excellences and his sanctity.†   (source)
  • A high-spirited young lady and a musical Polish patriot made a likely enough stock for him to spring from, but I should never have suspected a grafting of the Jew pawnbroker.†   (source)
  • …in nothingness; destiny, good and evil, the way of being against being, the conscience of man, the thoughtful somnambulism of the animal, the transformation in death, the recapitulation of existences which the tomb contains, the incomprehensible grafting of successive loves on the persistent I, the essence, the substance, the Nile, and the Ens, the soul, nature, liberty, necessity; perpendicular problems, sinister obscurities, where lean the gigantic archangels of the human mind;…†   (source)
  • Julie was at the entrance of the garden, where she was attentively watching Penelon, who, entering with zeal into his profession of gardener, was very busy grafting some Bengal roses.†   (source)
  • 'Grafting,' I continued, 'is the process of inserting a slip or twig of a tree into what is called an eye; that is, a knot or hole in the branch of another.†   (source)
  • 'It is only in the cold climate of our part of the world that they require this grafting; in many parts of the world, in more southern latitudes than ours, the most luscious fruit trees are indigenous to the soil, and flourish and bear sweet, wholesome fruit, without the slightest care of attention being bestowed upon them; while in England and Germany, and even in France, these same trees require the utmost exertion of horticultural skills to make them bring forth any fruit whatever.†   (source)
  • 'Thus, when the Romans invaded England they found nothing in the way of fruit trees but the crab-apple, nut bushes, and bramble bushes, but by grafting on these, fine apples, filberts, and raspberries were produced, and it was the same in our own dear Switzerland—all our fruit trees were imported.'†   (source)
  • I bet that sonofabitch rakes off a million bucks in graft a year.†   (source)
  • Grafted to terror, the mind, wrested away, tore terror with it.†   (source)
  • They sprayed the trees and sold no crop, they pruned and grafted and could not pick the crop.†   (source)
  • More money for graft, the opposition always screamed.†   (source)
  • It looked like a medieval fortress, with a Gothic cathedral grafted to its belly.†   (source)
  • "Graft is what he calls it when the fellows do it who don't know which fork to use."†   (source)
  • He was in on the graft, but my Old Man never squealed on him.†   (source)
  • She'd go out scrubbing floors like Mama or graft chop suey off of her men friends like Floss Gaddis did.†   (source)
  • All of the neighbours hoped that sudden wealth would not turn Kino's head, would not make a rich man of him, would not graft onto him the evil limbs of greed and hatred and coldness.†   (source)
  • And not graft.†   (source)
  • So they pulled him from it by force, and then there was a necessity on them to graft a piece of skin on his bottom—but it was sheepskin, and from thenceforth the stockings worn by the Fianna were made from the wool which grew on Conan!†   (source)
  • It is only fair to add that Oran is grafted on to a unique landscape, in the center of a bare plateau, ringed with luminous hills and above a perfectly shaped bay.†   (source)
  • But far and above their anger at the waste and mismanagement and graft was the resentment of the people at the bad light in which the governor represented them in the North.†   (source)
  • "So," I said, "is it better to leave it to Karas or a gorilla of a business agent who takes graft from him?"†   (source)
  • Men who can graft the trees and make the seed fertile and big can find no way to let the hungry people eat their produce.†   (source)
  • Also, many hotels had painting contractors or graft arrangements; controlled by receivers, appointed by the courts, the original corporations in bankruptcy; the receivers were themselves interested in the insurance, plumbing, catering, decorating, bars, concessions, and the rest of the interlocking system.†   (source)
  • The men who graft the young trees, the little vines, are the cleverest of all, for theirs is a surgeon's job, as tender and delicate; and these men must have surgeons' hands and surgeons' hearts to slit the bark, to place the grafts, to bind the wounds and cover them from the air.†   (source)
  • "Sure," the Boss had said, lounging easy, "sure, there's some graft, but there's just enough to make the wheels turn without squeaking.†   (source)
  • The Banner ran an expose on the housing racket: the graft, the incompetence, the structures erected at five times the cost a private builder would have needed, the settlements built and abandoned, the horrible performance accepted, admired, forgiven, protected by the sacred cow of altruism.†   (source)
  • "Oh, Son—what Mr. Patton said—those people you're with— Son, now don't get mixed up in any graft, now-—"†   (source)
  • Pat McGloin, the other one, was a police lieutenant back in the flush times of graft when everything went.†   (source)
  • Bejees, I'll have him back in uniform pounding a beat where the only graft he'll get will be stealing tin cans from the goats!†   (source)
  • He had interviewed senators; he had discovered graft in charity societies and even in prize-fights.†   (source)
  • They were common enough, he said, such cases of petty graft.†   (source)
  • Early in April the city elections were due, and that meant prosperity for all the powers of graft.†   (source)
  • And this army of graft had, of course, to be maintained the year round.†   (source)
  • A Quarrenden grafted on a Tom Putt, and a Rathe-ripe upon top o' that again.†   (source)
  • No European tree bears good fruit until it is grafted!'†   (source)
  • It is the graft of the pointed upon the round arch.†   (source)
  • It is a graft which shoots up, a sap which circulates, a vegetation which starts forth anew.†   (source)
  • 'They are not wild,' I replied, 'but grafted or cultivated or, as you call them, tame trees.†   (source)
  • I imagined that he must have been mixed up in some case of graft or that he had at least betrayed several innocent and trusting maidens.†   (source)
  • Gigantic pansies, considerably larger than the roses, and closely resembling the floral pen-wipers made by female parishioners for fashionable clergymen, sprang from the moss beneath the rose-trees; and here and there a daisy grafted on a rose-branch flowered with a luxuriance prophetic of Mr. Luther Burbank's far-off prodigies.†   (source)
  • Having the natural feelings of a tradesman at finding that a job he should have been called in for had been unskilfully botched by his customers among themselves, he was disposed to say no. Yet the dignity of the girl, the strange tenderness in her voice, combined to affect his nobler impulses—or rather those that he had left in him after ten years of endeavour to graft technical belief on actual scepticism.†   (source)
  • Every form of prudence and suspicion had been grafted on a nature originally reluctant and cautious, with the result that it would have seemed hardly needful for Mrs. Gryce to extract his promise about the overshoes, so little likely was he to hazard himself abroad in the rain.†   (source)
  • There was martyrs in old times," goes on Bill, "that suffered death rather than give up the particular graft they enjoyed.†   (source)
  • Half-way up the trunk of a tree draped with wild vine, the light had grafted and brought to blossom, too dazzling to be clearly distinguished, an enormous posy, of red flowers apparently, perhaps of a new variety of carnation.†   (source)
  • The pastor of the Jonathan Edwards Church touched up a sermon about Sin in High Places by a reference to "one who, while like a Czar he pretends to be safeguarding the city from entirely imaginary dangers, yet winks at the secret vice rampant in hidden places; who allies himself with the forces of graft and evil and the thugs who batten on honest but deluded Labor; one who cannot arise, a manly man among men, and say, 'I have a clean heart and clean hands.'†   (source)
  • To compete with and so to stimulate the moribund feelings that Swann had for Odette, Mme. Cottard, a wiser physician, in this case, than ever her husband would have been, had grafted among them others more normal, feelings of gratitude, of friendship, which in Swann's mind were to make Odette seem again more human (more like other women, since other women could inspire the same feelings in him), were to hasten her final transformation back into that Odette, loved with an undisturbed…†   (source)
  • It collected the stories of graft and misery from the daily press, and made a little pungent paragraphs out of them.†   (source)
  • For the criminal graft was one in which the businessmen had no direct part—it was what is called a "side line," carried by the police.†   (source)
  • Tommy Hinds had begun life as a blacksmith's helper, and had run away to join the Union army, where he had made his first acquaintance with "graft," in the shape of rotten muskets and shoddy blankets.†   (source)
  • The city, which was owned by an oligarchy of businessmen, being nominally ruled by the people, a huge army of graft was necessary for the purpose of effecting the transfer of power.†   (source)
  • So indignant were the packers that they went farther, and compelled the mayor to abolish the whole bureau of inspection; so that since then there has not been even a pretense of any interference with the graft.†   (source)
  • The city government was in their hands and the railroads were in league with them, and honest business was driven to the wall; and so Hinds had put all his savings into Chicago real estate, and set out singlehanded to dam the river of graft.†   (source)
  • For his cell mate Jurgis had an Italian fruit seller who had refused to pay his graft to the policeman, and been arrested for carrying a large pocketknife; as he did not understand a word of English our friend was glad when he left.†   (source)
  • The officials who ruled it, and got all the graft, had to be elected first; and so there were two rival sets of grafters, known as political parties, and the one got the office which bought the most votes.†   (source)
  • After Jurgis had been there awhile he would know that the plants were simply honeycombed with rottenness of that sort—the bosses grafted off the men, and they grafted off each other; and some day the superintendent would find out about the boss, and then he would graft off the boss.†   (source)
  • There were a few colonies of them still here, enough to run all the unions and the police force and get all the graft; but most of those who were working in the packing houses had gone away at the next drop in wages—after the big strike.†   (source)
  • In the same way Scully had all the jobs in the fire department at his disposal, and all the rest of the city graft in the stockyards district; he was building a block of flats somewhere up on Ashland Avenue, and the man who was overseeing it for him was drawing pay as a city inspector of sewers.†   (source)
  • Jurgis had often wondered just who ate the canned corned beef and "roast beef" of the stockyards; now he began to understand—that it was what you might call "graft meat," put up to be sold to public officials and contractors, and eaten by soldiers and sailors, prisoners and inmates of institutions, "shantymen" and gangs of railroad laborers.†   (source)
  • It was the same with the gambling-house keeper and the poolroom man, and the same with any other man or woman who had a means of getting "graft," and was willing to pay over a share of it: the green-goods man and the highwayman, the pickpocket and the sneak thief, and the receiver of stolen goods, the seller of adulterated milk, of stale fruit and diseased meat, the proprietor of unsanitary tenements, the fake doctor and the usurer, the beggar and the "pushcart man," the prize fighter…†   (source)
  • After Jurgis had been there awhile he would know that the plants were simply honeycombed with rottenness of that sort—the bosses grafted off the men, and they grafted off each other; and some day the superintendent would find out about the boss, and then he would graft off the boss.†   (source)
  • He maintained that the poverty of Russia arises not merely from the anomalous distribution of landed property and misdirected reforms, but that what had contributed of late years to this result was the civilization from without abnormally grafted upon Russia, especially facilities of communication, as railways, leading to centralization in towns, the development of luxury, and the consequent development of manufactures, credit and its accompaniment of speculation—all to the detriment…†   (source)
  • He loves the skulking vagabonds as little as myself; and, for that matter, I may say that my own feelings towards a Mingo are not much more than the gifts of a Delaware grafted on a Christian stock.†   (source)
  • Art or nature though, the original stock of Louisa's character or the graft of circumstances upon it, — her curious reserve did baffle, while it stimulated, one as sagacious as Mrs. Sparsit.†   (source)
  • Mr. Tulkinghorn stops for an instant and repeats with some little emphasis grafted upon his usual monotony, "Real flesh and blood, Miss Dedlock.†   (source)
  • Grafted upon the quaintness and oddity of his appearance, was something so indescribably engaging, and bespeaking so much worth, and there were so many little lights hovering about the corners of his mouth and eyes, that it was not a mere amusement, but a positive pleasure and delight to look at him.†   (source)
  • Born a Gascon but bred a Norman, he grafted upon his southern volubility the cunning of the Cauchois.†   (source)
  • Or rather, she left about half of herself at eighteen years of age behind, and grafted the rest on to the relict of the late Mr F.; thus making a moral mermaid of herself, which her once boy-lover contemplated with feelings wherein his sense of the sorrowful and his sense of the comical were curiously blended.†   (source)
  • Therefore, the story at first had no idea of such a tree, sir, then gradually found it in winter, carried it through the changing season, saw it bud, saw it blossom, saw it bear fruit, saw the fruit ripen; in short, cultivated the tree in that diligent and minute manner before it got out of the bed-room window to steal the fruit, that many thanks had been offered up by belated listeners for the trees having been planted and grafted prior to Lord Decimus's time.†   (source)
  • Ladies, a second piece of advice: do not marry; marriage is a graft; it takes well or ill; avoid that risk.†   (source)
  • It is a whole language within a language, a sort of sickly excrescence, an unhealthy graft which has produced a vegetation, a parasite which has its roots in the old Gallic trunk, and whose sinister foliage crawls all over one side of the language.†   (source)
  • Let the reader imagine Paris lifted off like a cover, the subterranean net-work of sewers, from a bird's eye view, will outline on the banks a species of large branch grafted on the river.†   (source)
  • …to note the entrances of water, to count the gratings and the vents, to lay out in detail the branches, to indicate the currents at the point where they parted, to define the respective bounds of the divers basins, to sound the small sewers grafted on the principal sewer, to measure the height under the key-stone of each drain, and the width, at the spring of the vaults as well as at the bottom, in order to determine the arrangements with regard to the level of each water-entrance,…†   (source)
  • It is not clear what Homer meant by this tantalizing fragment of a tradition, but as early as the fourth century B.C. Italian historians decided that this story had to be grafted onto the tale of Romulus and Remus to give their city an ancient and royal origin.†   (source)
  • /Graft/ and /to graft/ crossed the ocean in their nonage.†   (source)
  • Graft, my dear sir.†   (source)
  • Nor was there any other satisfactory word for /graft/ when it came in, nor for /rowdy/, nor for /boom/, nor for /joy-ride/, nor for /omnibus-bill/, nor for /slacker/, nor for /trust-buster/.†   (source)
  • To rise at peep of day and pass forth nimbly to work, To plough land in the fall for winter-sown crops, To plough land in the spring for maize, To train orchards, to graft the trees, to gather apples in the fall.†   (source)
  • Through you I drain the pent-up rivers of myself, In you I wrap a thousand onward years, On you I graft the grafts of the best-beloved of me and America, The drops I distil upon you shall grow fierce and athletic girls, new artists, musicians, and singers, The babes I beget upon you are to beget babes in their turn, I shall demand perfect men and women out of my love-spendings, I shall expect them to interpenetrate with others, as I and you inter-penetrate now, I shall count on the…†   (source)
  • To bide upon't,—thou art not honest; or, If thou inclin'st that way, thou art a coward, Which hoxes honesty behind, restraining From course requir'd; or else thou must be counted A servant grafted in my serious trust, And therein negligent; or else a fool That seest a game play'd home, the rich stake drawn, And tak'st it all for jest.†   (source)
  • It is myself I mean: in whom I know All the particulars of vice so grafted That, when they shall be open'd, black Macbeth Will seem as pure as snow; and the poor state Esteem him as a lamb, being compar'd With my confineless harms.†   (source)
  • Tell me else, Could such inordinate and low desires, Such poor, such base, such lewd, such mean attempts, Such barren pleasures, rude society, As thou art match'd withal and grafted to, Accompany the greatness of thy blood, And hold their level with thy princely heart?†   (source)
  • …the throne majestical, The scepter'd office of your ancestors, Your state of fortune and your due of birth, The lineal glory of your royal house, To the corruption of a blemish'd stock: Whilst, in the mildness of your sleepy thoughts,— Which here we waken to our country's good,— The noble isle doth want her proper limbs; Her face defac'd with scars of infamy, Her royal stock graft with ignoble plants, And almost shoulder'd in the swallowing gulf Of dark forgetfulness and deep oblivion.†   (source)
  • He would always say,— Methinks I hear him now; his plausive words He scatter'd not in ears, but grafted them To grow there, and to bear,—'Let me not live,'— This his good melancholy oft began, On the catastrophe and heel of pastime, When it was out,—'Let me not live' quoth he, 'After my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff Of younger spirits, whose apprehensive senses All but new things disdain; whose judgments are Mere fathers of their garments; whose constancies Expire before their…†   (source)
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