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  • But Mobutu was just getting organized in '61, and still given to peculiar omissions.†   (source)
  • Incomplete information creates gaps in our knowledge, and medically speaking, gaps in our knowledge create mistakes and omissions.†   (source)
  • If I tell Ma and Dad everything except about the deer, that's lying by omission, Ma says: not telling the whole truth.†   (source)
  • Paul sat reflectively for a moment, re-read the last line (mentally filling in the omissions), and then simply went back to work.†   (source)
  • I rationalized the omission: There was no point getting all worked up about a kiss.†   (source)
  • This is an omission indeed, given how much I enjoyed yesterday's motoring.†   (source)
  • The omission felt like the tablet itself stuck in my throat.†   (source)
  • I'm a big fan of the lie of omission.†   (source)
  • Writing and editing technical manuals is what I do for a living the other eleven months of the year and I knew they were full of errors, ambiguities, omissions and information so completely screwed up you had to read them six times to make any sense out of them.†   (source)
  • I came to the rocky conclusion that a lie of omission was the only way to go.†   (source)
  • A lie of omission is still a lie.†   (source)
  • Not once during this interview, now almost three hours old, had either of them mentioned murder-an omission that kept the prisoner edgy, expectant.†   (source)
  • Moody did not notice the omission, and I did not care.†   (source)
  • Yet General Steyn oppressed us by omission rather than commission.†   (source)
  • Deep down, though, I could suddenly feel the weight of all my withholding, so many lies and omissions.†   (source)
  • I would have answered, but Firnen had already hatched and I did not want to lie to you, even by omission.†   (source)
  • And it didn't occur to her to drink, an omission she would soon regret.†   (source)
  • He didn't share his reservations with Mills, an omission he would come to regret.†   (source)
  • Neferet had lied, and not just by omission about me drinking Heath's blood and Heath almost getting killed during the Samhain ritual.†   (source)
  • Let him stay that way, the colonel decided vindictively, just to show him who was boss and to safeguard himself against any loss of dignity that might devolve from his acknowledging the omission.†   (source)
  • How I felt about my mother twisted and warped with the realization that her occasional signs of affection, which I now saw as part of her greater lies of omission, had simply been a way to keep me on course to the good marriage that would benefit my entire natal family.†   (source)
  • Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.†   (source)
  • In the Catholic Church, there were lies of commission and lies of omission.†   (source)
  • The errors in this book that I know of are omissions, not fabrications, intended to spare people who have enough pain in their lives, a little more.†   (source)
  • They created brilliant omissions.†   (source)
  • Except by omission, she didn't even have to lie.†   (source)
  • My father's voice rose: 'Lord, we have sinned in omission.†   (source)
  • What are the methods of commission or omission that censorship employs?†   (source)
  • She could have forgiven all the omissions, but one: Dagny showed no sign of interest in men, no romantic inclination whatever.†   (source)
  • It was a crude transcript with some major omissions and a few inaccuracies, but in general it was factual.†   (source)
  • This is my final honoring to Kwang, my last offering, which is the sole way of giving I have known in my life: an omission, solemn and prone.†   (source)
  • The new Constitution corrects this omission.†   (source)
  • An unintentional mistake resulted in the omission of his name from the list of those who had passed, or so Hisham decided.†   (source)
  • Omission was now to be corrected by an activist program, a five-year plan in which all phases of life in Authority's trusteeship would be overhauled.†   (source)
  • I took no weapons of any kind, although there were times when I regretted this omission, even if only fleetingly.†   (source)
  • To the guilt which was murdering her just as surely as her children were murdered must there now be added my own guilt for committing the sin of blind omission that might help seal her doom as certainly as Nathan's own hands?†   (source)
  • Deponent sinneth only by omission.†   (source)
  • JUDGE Colonel Drummond, I regret this omission, in the confusion, and the—I neglected—(Up, to CATES!†   (source)
  • That omission was our own past, the smashed life of our community.†   (source)
  • No crime of commission was ever attributed to him, and his crimes of omission were only misdemeanors.†   (source)
  • Not because of sins of commission or sins of omission, not because he had tasted the knowledge of good and evil, but because he was what he was, merely a man.†   (source)
  • Lied by omission, as they all do, agents the world over.†   (source)
  • To make up for her omission and not seem ungrateful she asked him all about himself when she made her next morning round.†   (source)
  • YLP-R" which, translated, meant: "An Act or Omission, forbidden by law has been reported at Beaumont House, 9 Park South."†   (source)
  • The story was repeated; it was, in effect, exactly the same as before, without any deviation or omission.   (source)
    omission = something left out
  • Mae still couldn't retrieve the artist's name and felt the omission was about to be noticed.†   (source)
  • Was it added later, or is the omission simply further proof of "Carlos" ' thoroughness?†   (source)
  • It is a lie of omission, but I long ago convinced myself that it was the right thing to do.†   (source)
  • And from what the director had learned about Conklin, that omission was extraordinary.†   (source)
  • A sin of omission could be understandable if you were helping someone by holding back.†   (source)
  • And friends of good government lament this omission.†   (source)
  • But there are also the sins of omission to consider.†   (source)
  • By omission and commission there's enough sleaze to go around for everybody.†   (source)
  • "A lie of omission," she said, her voice bitter.†   (source)
  • The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.†   (source)
  • He was using the omission to get himself off the meathook!†   (source)
  • [Article Eleven] This omission had been inconvenient.†   (source)
  • People have suggested how to correct the omission.†   (source)
  • If the first, the omission of such a minor point is not a material imperfection in the Constitution.†   (source)
  • The Sunlight Man's map had made one omission: it did not include the Francis Road.†   (source)
  • "I did okay," I told Adam, and as I said it, I realized that I'd just straight-out lied to him for the first time, and that this was different from all the lying by omission I'd been doing before.†   (source)
  • I could well imagine the blow the news would be to her, her aunt having been, to all intents and purposes, like a mother to her, and I paused out in the corridor, wondering if I should go back, knock and make good my omission.†   (source)
  • The omission threw her back to some ignominious spot at the Circle, some plebeian place of being a spokeswoman, a public shill.†   (source)
  • So people lie by omission all the time.†   (source)
  • As odd as this may sound-and it does so to me even here on your pages-I believe this omission of the act has been out of respect to me, and I also believe it has thrown him into internal turmoil that has, these many months, resulted in a string of self-destructive acts.†   (source)
  • Those who trained with Stone never overlooked the rectal exam on their patient, not just because Stone had drilled into their heads that most colon cancers are in the rectum or sigmoid, many within reach of the examining finger, but also because they knew they'd be fired for this omission.†   (source)
  • No invention, simply omission.†   (source)
  • And in the spirit that usually characterizes little critics, the omission has been magnified into a plot against national rights.†   (source)
  • An explanation of the differences is necessary before we make a judgment about its omission from the Constitution.†   (source)
  • To people who believe that this is an unforgivable error in the federal Constitution and it is only an innocent omission in the State constitutions, nothing can be said.†   (source)
  • So, in my talks with Indar about Africa—the purpose of his outfit, the Domain, his anxieties about imported doctrines, the danger to Africa of its very newness, first ideas being caught most securely by new minds as sticky as adhesive tape—I felt that between us lay some dishonesty, or just an omission, some blank, around which we both had to walk carefully.†   (source)
  • Peters knew that for those reasons Leamas would lie; lie perhaps only by omission, but lie all the same, for pride, from defiance or through the sheer perversity of his profession; and he, Peters, would have to nail the lies.†   (source)
  • Despite the slanted nature of the news, we were glad to have it, and prided ourselves on reading between the lines and making educated guesses based on the obvious omissions.†   (source)
  • And the moments went by until it was late and they both remembered, horrified, that Katenka had been left alone much too long or that the horse was unwatered and unfed, and rushed off, conscience-stricken, to make up for their omissions.†   (source)
  • The customary omission, therefore, seemed to be a matter of taste, not ignorance.†   (source)
  • I noticed that he made no reference to the funeral, and this seemed to me a serious omission.†   (source)
  • How do you explain this voluntary omission?†   (source)
  • Well, if I didn't I made a serious omission.†   (source)
  • Her voice was strange by omission, it was flagrantly devoid of respect.†   (source)
  • Only Carreen noticed the omission and looked up puzzled, as he began the Lord's Prayer.†   (source)
  • Never once did he call for mother, wife, sister or sweetheart and this omission worried Carreen.†   (source)
  • No report about Young had come from the Communist party, but since Young seemed a conscientious worker, I did not think the omission serious in any case.†   (source)
  • If one or another of the basic elements of the archetypal pattern is omitted from a given fairy tale, legend, ritual, or myth, it is bound to be somehow or other implied—and the omission itself can speak volumes for the history and pathology of the example, as we shall presently see.†   (source)
  • Once she would have thought this omission a mortal sin but, somehow, staying away from church did not seem so sinful now as it formerly had.†   (source)
  • He saw the familiar "One Small Voice" by Ellsworth M. Toohey, and under it a single word as subtitle, in large, spaced letters, a single word, blatant in its singleness, a salute by dint of omission: # "KEATING" # He dropped the paper strip and seized it again and read, choking upon great unchewed hunks of sentences, the paper trembling in his hand, the skin on his forehead drawing into tight pink spots.†   (source)
  • Tom turned in without the added vexation of prayers, and Sid made mental note of the omission.†   (source)
  • He had not come to consult Madeline for several days—an omission so unusual as to be remarked.†   (source)
  • Madeline marked the omission with her first thrill of the ride.†   (source)
  • Last night Mrs. Wilcox wore an [omission], and Evie [omission].†   (source)
  • D'Artagnan related his story simply, with the omission of names.†   (source)
  • It was a fatal omission of Boldwood's that he had never once told her she was beautiful.†   (source)
  • Now while Billy Budd was down in the forecastle getting his kit together, the Indomitable's Lieutenant, burly and bluff, nowise disconcerted by Captain Graveling's omitting to proffer the customary hospitalities on an occasion so unwelcome to him, an omission simply caused by preoccupation of thought, unceremoniously invited himself into the cabin, and also to a flask from the spirit-locker, a receptacle which his experienced eye instantly discovered.†   (source)
  • Now he was smitten with compunction, yet irritated that so trifling an omission should be stored up against him after nearly two years of marriage.†   (source)
  • He had not even remembered to say goodbye, and Lebedeff was the more surprised at the omission, as he knew by experience how courteous the prince usually was.†   (source)
  • But since such acts of omission were without doubt committed for his sake, there was clearly a connection between the two of them now, even if it had taken a negative form; and that would have to suffice.†   (source)
  • Izz mentioned the omission of the banns to Mrs Crick, and Mrs Crick assumed a matron's privilege of speaking to Angel on the point.†   (source)
  • Shefford did not respond with his usual enthusiasm, and the omission caused the trader to scrutinize him closely.†   (source)
  • I am going to wear [omission].†   (source)
  • Upon almost any night at this hour there would be lights here, and Venters marked the unusual omission.†   (source)
  • He read many wise things in books, but he could only judge from his own experience (he did not know whether he was different from other people); he did not calculate the pros and cons of an action, the benefits which must befall him if he did it, the harm which might result from the omission; but his whole being was urged on irresistibly.†   (source)
  • M. Vinteuil did not send his daughter to visit Swann, an omission which Swann was the first to regret.†   (source)
  • Swann having replied that he had not seen this portrait, Mme. Cottard was afraid that she might have hurt his feelings by obliging him to confess the omission.†   (source)
  • But the absence of one part from a whole is not only that, it is not simply a partial omission, it is a disturbance of all the other parts, a new state which it was impossible to foresee from the old.†   (source)
  • I think your honor said it wanted the name at the bottom; a great omission for an honest man to make.†   (source)
  • Sir Walter had once been in company with the late viscount, but had never seen any of the rest of the family; and the difficulties of the case arose from there having been a suspension of all intercourse by letters of ceremony, ever since the death of that said late viscount, when, in consequence of a dangerous illness of Sir Walter's at the same time, there had been an unlucky omission at Kellynch.†   (source)
  • The Maltese puppy was not offered to Celia; an omission which Dorothea afterwards thought of with surprise; but she blamed herself for it.†   (source)
  • Mr Blandois, not at all put out by this omission on the part of the correspondents of the house of Clennam and Co., took his pocket-book from his breast-pocket, selected a letter from that receptacle, and handed it to Mr Flintwinch.†   (source)
  • Mr. Pullet, by an unaccountable lapse of memory, had forgotten it, and hastened out, with a stricken conscience, to remedy the omission.†   (source)
  • It is on her account that attention to Randalls is doubly due, and she must doubly feel the omission.†   (source)
  • …aspect towards Volumnia because it is whispered abroad that these necessary expenses will, in some two hundred election petitions, be unpleasantly connected with the word bribery, and because some graceless jokers have consequently suggested the omission from the Church service of the ordinary supplication in behalf of the High Court of Parliament and have recommended instead that the prayers of the congregation be requested for six hundred and fifty-eight gentlemen in a very unhealthy…†   (source)
  • He added that if this omission continued he should be obliged to prosecute them, as the law directs, before the proper tribunals.†   (source)
  • A public audience was given to the Professor at the Johannaeum, at which he told all about our expedition, with only one omission, the unexplained and inexplicable behaviour of our compass.†   (source)
  • Having given orders in the commander in chief's name to rectify this omission, Prince Andrew galloped back.†   (source)
  • There would have been a species of profanity in the omission, had this man passed so powerful a community of his fancied kindred, without bestowing some evidence of his regard.†   (source)
  • And will you consent to dispense with a great many conventional forms and phrases, without thinking that the omission arises from insolence?†   (source)
  • It would be an omission, trifling, indeed, but unpardonable, were we to forget the green moss that had long since gathered over the projections of the windows, and on the slopes of the roof nor must we fail to direct the reader's eye to a crop, not of weeds, but flower-shrubs, which were growing aloft in the air, not a great way from the chimney, in the nook between two of the gables.†   (source)
  • According to the degrees of omission, my soul went to one of the heavens—Indra's the lowest, Brahma's the highest; or it was driven back to become the life of a worm, a fly, a fish, or a brute.†   (source)
  • A Dodson would not be taxed with the omission of anything that was becoming, or that belonged to that eternal fitness of things which was plainly indicated in the practice of the most substantial parishioners, and in the family traditions,—such as obedience to parents, faithfulness to kindred, industry, rigid honesty, thrift, the thorough scouring of wooden and copper utensils, the hoarding of coins likely to disappear from the currency, the production of first-rate commodities for the…†   (source)
  • "That's just it, Pathfinder; and when I come to draw up the report of our success against the boats, and the defence of the block, together with the general operations, including the capitulation, ye'll no' find any omission of your claims and merits."†   (source)
  • I — who, though I had no love, had much friendship for him — was hurt by the marked omission: so much hurt that tears started to my eyes.†   (source)
  • "If I have not," pursues Sir Leicester, "in the most emphatic manner, adjured you, officer, to exercise your utmost skill in this atrocious case, I particularly desire to take the present opportunity of rectifying any omission I may have made.†   (source)
  • Dorothea's faith supplied all that Mr. Casaubon's words seemed to leave unsaid: what believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity?†   (source)
  • The instructions given the latter, taken with the omission on the map, accomplished the design—the cell and its unhappy tenants were all alike lost.†   (source)
  • The bare possibility of it acted as a farther irritation on her spirits; and her being left in solitary grandeur, even supposing the omission to be intended as a compliment, was but poor comfort.†   (source)
  • If he commits a fault in his official capacity, a purely administrative tribunal is empowered to punish him; and, if the affair is important or urgent, the judge supplies the omission of the functionary.†   (source)
  • He walked up-stairs, candle in hand, not knowing whether he should straightway enter his own room and go to bed, or turn to the patient's room and rectify his omission.†   (source)
  • Then, with masterly ingenuity, the procurator had new maps drawn for delivery to a new keeper, with the omission, as we have seen, of cell VI.†   (source)
  • It is easy enough to spoil the lives of our neighbors without taking so much trouble; we can do it by lazy acquiescence and lazy omission, by trivial falsities for which we hardly know a reason, by small frauds neutralized by small extravagances, by maladroit flatteries, and clumsily improvised insinuations.†   (source)
  • I am merely filling in the omissions.†   (source)
  • …and wild English fern in its natural fronds; through them ran a dozen streams that counterfeited springs, and round them sported fantastic tropical animals, camels and camelopards and an ebullient lion, all vomiting water; on the rocks, to the height of the pediment, stood an Egyptian obelisk of red sandstone—but, by some odd chance, for the thing was far beyond me, I brought it off and, by judicious omissions and some stylish tricks, produced a very passable echo of Piranesi.†   (source)
  • Lily, well-versed in the language of these omissions, knew that they were equally intelligible to the other members of the party: even Rosedale, flushed as he was with the importance of keeping such company, at once took the temperature of Mrs. Trenor's cordiality, and reflected it in his off-hand greeting of Miss Bart.†   (source)
  • The pure air, and the long summer hours in the open, gave back life and elasticity to Mattie, and Zeena, with more leisure to devote to her complex ailments, grew less watchful of the girl's omissions; so that Ethan, struggling on under the burden of his barren farm and failing saw-mill, could at least imagine that peace reigned in his house.†   (source)
  • The doctor and his wife, uncle and aunt Kimble, were there, and the annual Christmas talk was carried through without any omissions, rising to the climax of Mr. Kimble's experience when he walked the London hospitals thirty years back, together with striking professional anecdotes then gathered.†   (source)
  • Yet the soul-hunger is there, the restlessness of the savage, the wail of the wanderer, and the plaint is put in one little phrase: My soul wants something that's new, that's new Over the inner thoughts of the slaves and their relations one with another the shadow of fear ever hung, so that we get but glimpses here and there, and also with them, eloquent omissions and silences.†   (source)
  • I am perfectly acquainted with the play, I assure you; and with a very few omissions, and so forth, which will be made, of course, I can see nothing objectionable in it; and I am not the only young woman you find who thinks it very fit for private representation.†   (source)
  • A circle of students formed round the table, and they spoke of the nonsense paid for by the State which was uttered from the rostrum in the Sorbonne, then the conversation fell upon the faults and omissions in Guicherat's dictionaries and grammars.†   (source)
  • Looking over the throng, though, I noticed one glaring omission.†   (source)
  • You mean, since the houses are fairly new, nothing was buried under them, and the inhabitants are now remedying the omission.†   (source)
  • But the only formal trace of the old subjunctive still remaining, except the use of /be/ and /were/, is the omission of the final /s/ in the third person singular.†   (source)
  • But conspicuous speech of the evening was witty Joseph Gray's apostrophe to eminent astronomer Jacob Brown, subtle logician Jacob White, etc., etc.[26] Richard Grant White, a year or two later, joined the attack in the New York /Galaxy/, and William Cullen Bryant included the omission of the article in his /Index Expurgatorius/, but these anathemas were as ineffective as Gould's irony.†   (source)
  • The more careful American journals, of course, incline to the /the/, and I note that it is specifically ordained on the Style-sheet of the /Century Magazine/, but the overwhelming majority of American newspapers get along without it, and I have often noticed its omission on the sign-boards at church entrances.†   (source)
  • The Will In Deliberation, the last Appetite, or Aversion, immediately adhaering to the action, or to the omission thereof, is that wee call the WILL; the Act, (not the faculty,) of Willing.†   (source)
  • Thus they denote the folly of a servant, an omission of a child, a stone that cuts their feet, a continuance of foul or unseasonable weather, and the like, by adding to each the epithet of Yahoo.†   (source)
  • The omission of this was highly blameable in one Mr Moore, who, having formerly borrowed some lines of Pope and company, took the liberty to transcribe six of them into his play of the Rival Modes.†   (source)
  • To all which his great friend Ambrosio the student, he who, like him, also went dressed as a shepherd, replies that everything must be done without any omission according to the directions left by Chrysostom, and about this the village is all in commotion; however, report says that, after all, what Ambrosio and all the shepherds his friends desire will be done, and to-morrow they are coming to bury him with great ceremony where I said.†   (source)
  • A Crime What A Crime, is a sinne, consisting in the Committing (by Deed, or Word) of that which the Law forbiddeth, or the Omission of what it hath commanded.†   (source)
  • It is to little purpose to say, that a neglect or omission of this kind would not be likely to take place.†   (source)
  • As to the former, he imputed the whole behaviour of his sister to her humour only, and to her dissatisfaction at the omission of ceremony in the visit; but Blifil saw a little deeper into things.†   (source)
  • This promise I have most solemnly given, and shall most inviolably keep: and though she hath not expressly forbidden me writing, yet that must be an omission from forgetfulness; or this, perhaps, is included in the word conversing.†   (source)
  • By this it is manifest, that not onely actions that have their beginning from Covetousness, Ambition, Lust, or other Appetites to the thing propounded; but also those that have their beginning from Aversion, or Feare of those consequences that follow the omission, are Voluntary Actions.†   (source)
  • We have seen the inconvenience of this omission, and the assumption of power into which Congress have been led by it.†   (source)
  • …Lady Luscinda would greatly relish Daraida and Garaya, and the shrewd sayings of the shepherd Darinel, and the admirable verses of his bucolics, sung and delivered by him with such sprightliness, wit, and ease; but a time may come when this omission can be remedied, and to rectify it nothing more is needed than for your worship to be so good as to come with me to my village, for there I can give you more than three hundred books which are the delight of my soul and the entertainment…†   (source)
  • And therefore may consist, not onely in the Commission of a Fact, or in the Speaking of Words by the Lawes forbidden, or in the Omission of what the Law commandeth, but also in the Intention, or purpose to transgresse.†   (source)
  • Perhaps, however, the fact may be true, and less miraculous than it hath been represented; since the natural cause seems adequate to the effect: for, as the guide at that moment desisted from a constant application of his armed right heel (for, like Hudibras, he wore but one spur), it is more than possible that this omission alone might occasion the beast to stop, especially as this was very frequent with him at other times.†   (source)
  • A supply of the omission is one of the lesser instances in which the convention have improved on the model before them.†   (source)
  • The propositions which have been made for supplying the omission have rather served to illustrate than to obviate the difficulty of the thing.†   (source)
  • …that we are not to account as any part thereof, that originall knowledge called Experience, in which consisteth Prudence: Because it is not attained by Reasoning, but found as well in Brute Beasts, as in Man; and is but a Memory of successions of events in times past, wherein the omission of every little circumstance altering the effect, frustrateth the expectation of the most Prudent: whereas nothing is produced by Reasoning aright, but generall, eternall, and immutable Truth.†   (source)
  • If the first, the omission of a regulation respecting so partial an object can never be considered as a material imperfection in the system.†   (source)
  • Among the pretended defects are the re-eligibility of the Executive, the want of a council, the omission of a formal bill of rights, the omission of a provision respecting the liberty of the press.†   (source)
  • The great difference between the limits of the jury trial in different States is not generally understood; and as it must have considerable influence on the sentence we ought to pass upon the omission complained of in regard to this point, an explanation of it is necessary.†   (source)
  • All that need be remarked on the power to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, is, that by providing for this last case, the Constitution has supplied a material omission in the articles of Confederation.†   (source)
  • Among the lesser criticisms which have been exercised on the Constitution, it has been remarked that the validity of engagements ought to have been asserted in favor of the United States, as well as against them; and in the spirit which usually characterizes little critics, the omission has been transformed and magnified into a plot against the national rights.†   (source)
  • Specious arguments of danger to the common liberty could easily be contrived; plausible excuses for the deficiencies of the party could, without difficulty, be invented to alarm the apprehensions, inflame the passions, and conciliate the good-will, even of those States which were not chargeable with any violation or omission of duty.†   (source)
  • It must needs be that this people, so jealous of their liberties, have, in all the preceding models of the constitutions which they have established, inserted the most precise and rigid precautions on this point, the omission of which, in the new plan, has given birth to all this apprehension and clamor.†   (source)
  • The only existing formal treatise upon the subject[7] was written by a Swede trained in Germany and is heavy with errors and omissions.†   (source)
  • …and needles still theres something in it I suppose I always used to know by Millys when she was a child whether she had worms or not still all the same paying him for that how much is that doctor one guinea please and asking me had I frequent omissions where do those old fellows get all the words they have omissions with his shortsighted eyes on me cocked sideways I wouldnt trust him too far to give me chloroform or God knows what else still I liked him when he sat down to write the…†   (source)
  • Nor is there any adequate work (for Schele de Vere's is full of errors and omissions) upon the influences felt by American through contact with the languages of our millions [Pg012] of immigrants, nor upon our peculiarly rich and characteristic slang.†   (source)
  • No omissions nor evasions would answer the end.†   (source)
  • If against the present one any objection be raised on the score of its truth, it can only be that its author was an Arab, as lying is a very common propensity with those of that nation; though, as they are such enemies of ours, it is conceivable that there were omissions rather than additions made in the course of it.†   (source)
  • …before we had a second conference upon the same subject; when, as if she had been willing to forget the story she had told me of herself, or to suppose that I had forgot some of the particulars, she began to tell them with alterations and omissions; but I refreshed her memory and set her to rights in many things which I supposed she had forgot, and then came in so opportunely with the whole history, that it was impossible for her to go from it; and then she fell into her rhapsodies…†   (source)
  • They say, too, that he forgot to state what Sancho did with those hundred crowns that he found in the valise in the Sierra Morena, as he never alludes to them again, and there are many who would be glad to know what he did with them, or what he spent them on, for it is one of the serious omissions of the work.†   (source)
  • To those who are disposed to consider, as innocent omissions in the State constitutions, what they regard as unpardonable blemishes in the plan of the convention, nothing can be said; or at most, they can only be asked to assign some substantial reason why the representatives of the people in a single State should be more impregnable to the lust of power, or other sinister motives, than the representatives of the people of the United States?†   (source)
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