Sample Sentences foremend (auto-selected)
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In the later, emended (and, I am convinced, truthful) version of her story she told me she felt no real bereavement over the seizure of her father and husband—she was by this time too alienated from both of them for it to affect her deeply but she was forced to feel on another level shock that hammered at her bones, glacial fear and a devastating sense of loss.† (source)
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Every emendation of Anne's had been on the side of honesty against importance.† (source)
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Thus he beheld her recede, and in the anguish of his heart quoted a line from a poet, with peculiar emendations of his own— God's NOT in his heaven: All's WRONG with the world!† (source)
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Little Cackleby himself went to seven evening parties and told the story with comments and emendations at each place.† (source)
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Indeed I think it is one among several cities to which an extreme hyperbole has been applied—'See Rome and die:' but in your case I would propose an emendation and say, See Rome as a bride, and live henceforth as a happy wife.† (source)
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Why, he had all the earmarks of a typewriter copyist, if you leave out the disposition to contribute uninvited emendations of your grammar and punctuation.† (source)
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[1] Caxton "Yf," for which "Ye" seems the easiest emendation that will save the sense† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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You don't know what it is to want spiritual tobacco—bad emendations of old texts, or small items about a variety of Aphis Brassicae, with the well-known signature of Philomicron, for the 'Twaddler's Magazine;' or a learned treatise on the entomology of the Pentateuch, including all the insects not mentioned, but probably met with by the Israelites in their passage through the desert; with a monograph on the Ant, as treated by Solomon, showing the harmony of the Book of Proverbs with the results of modern research.† (source)
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[1] Caxton "Yf," for which "Ye" seems the easiest emendation that will save the sense† (source)
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[Footnote 1: This phrase is a conjectural emendation of the unintelligible expression, "as the Devil said to the Owl," used by the natives.† (source)
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I had once suggested a textual emendation in class, and he had given me a queer look.† (source)
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The full committee will meet to critique and emend the document.†
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