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  • Peter took a deep breath, then told him the whole story, omitting only the forged passports.   (source)
    omitting = leaving out
  • He began pouring out our secrets right and left in total disregard for my safety if not for his own, omitting nothing, knot-hole, pants and all.   (source)
  • Therefore, any gospels that described earthly aspects of Jesus' life had to be omitted from the Bible.†   (source)
  • Her father is telling an abridged story of their flight, train stations, fearful crowds, omitting the stop in Evreux, but soon all of Marie-Laure's attention is absorbed by the smells blooming around her: egg, spinach, melting cheese.†   (source)
  • or 'Miss' is omitted.†   (source)
  • The solution, the Rev. Dudley Wiggin proposed, was" to omit the fifth verse of "We Three Kings," but Owen denounced this as unorthodox.†   (source)
  • The count had come right only because Jon had omitted himself.†   (source)
  • She omitted, however, the part about the imagined shark†   (source)
  • A search revealed that the socks they had arrived in were being washed, and that in the obliterating thrill of passion, Aunt Hermione had omitted to pack more than one extra pair.†   (source)
  • From: CapZeton Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 02:01:34 +0200 To: [name omitted]@wafb.com Subject: New Orleans Hurricane-impacted areas Dear Sires, As I informed from some friends in Baton Rouge, that you have on Sept. 5th a meeting with my brother: Name Abdulrahman Zeitoun, 47 years old, at New Orleans effected zone 4649 Dart St. LA 70125-2716 where he stay, our friend saw him on your TV WAFB CH9 on Sept. 6th.†   (source)
  • Huge Man the Strobe Lights, he omitted to say.†   (source)
  • The fact that I was in peril frightened him, so I started omitting the scary stuff.†   (source)
  • Daniel Burnham testified he had not known of the previous fire or the omitted thimble and claimed that since the building was a private concession he had no authority over its construction beyond approving its design.†   (source)
  • When you paint the daughter of my good friend and business partner, please omit birthmark or back to the rabble you'll go.†   (source)
  • With all due honesty, they told him of their daughter's traits, without omitting the fact that she had spent more than half her lifetime without speaking because she did not feel like it and not because she was unable to, as the Rumanian Rostipov had made quite clear and as Dr. Cuevas had confirmed after innumerable examinations.†   (source)
  • In the "low fear" version, the language describing the risks of tetanus was toned down, and the photographs were omitted.†   (source)
  • New York, he said, carefully omitting the Nueva and the Yol.†   (source)
  • And in many cases, that meant oversimplifying, omitting, and even outright falsehood.†   (source)
  • With a lot more prodding, I talked about Adam aka Buddy (omitting everything of use to anyone interested in blackmail).†   (source)
  • Again, I told the truth, only omitting a bloodsucking, Imprinting detail here and an I-don't-trust-youanymore detail there.†   (source)
  • "Okay," I say, omitting the fact that I got stuck with Alex as a partner.†   (source)
  • Just as the chapters on whaling in Moby-Dick can be omitted by all but the most punishment-loving readers, so the packing scenes that Morgenstern details here are really best left alone.†   (source)
  • Omitting the salutation, I began.†   (source)
  • Buckheath gave her his own version of the matter, omitting, of course, all mention of the bandanna full of ore which lay now carefully hidden at the bottom of old Gideon Himes's trunk.†   (source)
  • No effort to secure it ought to be omitted.†   (source)
  • That was very instructive, although you would have done well to omit your last words.†   (source)
  • He kept the tale brief, omitting the gruesome details of the husband's head in the basket.†   (source)
  • The Thain's Book was thus the first copy made of the Red Book and contained much that was later omitted or lost.†   (source)
  • 1870 U.S. Congress grants naturalization rights to free whites and people of African descent, omitting mention of Oriental races.†   (source)
  • To omit him now would be to run from something that should not be run from.†   (source)
  • It was true; he had told her everything that had come to him, yet somehow he had omitted Carlos ...almost purposely, as if blocking it out.†   (source)
  • He didn't use the real name of anyone in his family, he omitted many details and changed others, and he completely altered the geography of his life.†   (source)
  • Alessandro was rapidly learning German, but his teachers had omitted this word.†   (source)
  • We could not omit your name, could we?†   (source)
  • I told Reb Saunders everything, how Danny had met my father, why my father was suggesting books for him to read, what he was reading, how my father was helping him—omitting that Danny was studying German, that he planned to read.†   (source)
  • Nor would Dr. Mansour omit to explain in a clear and audible voice the complications that would follow if the patient were to take that medication, which was known to totally destroy the liver.†   (source)
  • It has been asked, why not just omit the ambiguous power and rely on State requisitions?†   (source)
  • So I did, omitting only the substance I had derived from the babbling part.†   (source)
  • She found herself preoccupied about his rage should she misplace an accent, omit an umlaut.†   (source)
  • Don't omit any derail, however trivial it seems.†   (source)
  • I omitted the I.D. for Earth; she knew who I was.†   (source)
  • You omitted to tell Miss Chism you took her books, didn't you?†   (source)
  • On January 30, the State Legislature adopted a Memorial omitting all mention of Lamar but—in an obvious and deliberate slap—congratulating and thanking his colleague (to whom the white Democratic legislators normally were bitterly opposed) for voting the opposite way and thus reflecting "the sentiment and will of his constituents."†   (source)
  • But he had omitted the real reason for his third trip.†   (source)
  • Had some astronomical orb been omitted from a constellation?†   (source)
  • On the way home I mentioned Dad's plans for the coming evening, omitting you-know-what.†   (source)
  • My pious, departed mother would no doubt take offense at your omitting the 'Brendan Patrick.'†   (source)
  • Even so ...Renly, Stannis, Joffrey, Tommen ...how did he come to omit Balon Greyjoy and Robb Stark?†   (source)
  • I admitted almost everything about Ethan, omitting only the part about making love.†   (source)
  • And you would do well to omit must from any speech directed at me.†   (source)
  • He thought it prudent to omit the actual words.†   (source)
  • I omitted only the most important facts: Lucinda's gift and that Mandy was a fairy.†   (source)
  • I omit most of the storythe band, the booze, the monster.†   (source)
  • No, she just omitted it in talking to you.†   (source)
  • By omitting the vast majority of the text, the server avoided copyright infringement and also sent the user an intriguing message: I have the information you're searching for, but if you want the rest of it, you'll have to buy it from me.†   (source)
  • Yes, but like you said, we'll use only their initials and we'll omit the part about Wrightsville Beach.†   (source)
  • She told him about the day she had come back and found him there, omitting the fear she'd had that Steve might actually rape her.†   (source)
  • I don't even omit the kiss with Gale.†   (source)
  • Too bad neither of the ministers thought of that one, but the books of the Apocrypha are usually omitted from Protestant editions of the Bible.†   (source)
  • I look back over what I've written and I know it's wrong, not because of what I've set down, but because of what I've omitted.†   (source)
  • Langdon could already tell that the video was an unfair piece of propaganda, omitting all the noblest aspects of the initiation and highlighting only the most disconcerting.†   (source)
  • He spoke about his college days-omitting some of the wilder stories that might provide a misleading impression-and described what it had been like to start the shop and what his typical days were like now.†   (source)
  • Comrade Pillai told Inspector Thomas Mathew that he was acquainted with Velutha, but omitted to mention that Velutha was a member of the Communist Party, or that Velutha had knocked on his door late the previous night, which made Comrade Pillai the last person to have seen Velutha before he disappeared.†   (source)
  • Kindly would you please if there is a possibility to learn if he is all right, and if it's possible to talk to him, or to call me by a collected call to my phone [number omitted].†   (source)
  • Constantine commissioned and financed a new Bible, which omitted those gospels that spoke of Christ's human traits and embellished those gospels that made Him godlike.†   (source)
  • From: CapZeton Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 22:12:05 +0200 To: [name omitted]@arcno.org Subject: Looking for my brother / Abdulrahman Zeitoun Dear sires, Kindly, would you please if it's possible to know from you about the persons which they forced to leave houses from New Orleans last Tue.†   (source)
  • He's my brother, he leave many years ago in New Orleans: 4649 Dart St. New Orleans New Orleans, LA 70125-2716 Actually I'm at Spain, but her wife and childrens they left a day before Katrina hit to ARIZONA, his wife: Mrs. Kathy Zeitoun actual contact: 408-[number omitted] More information: He remained at home without phone, but he've a small boat and he went daily to: Mr. TODD at: 5010 S. Claiborne Ave 70125-4941 New Orleans Last calling was on Sept 6 at 14:30 local time, after that till now no calls, no news.†   (source)
  • More often than I would ever have believed possible, I've been pulled aside by a husband asking whether he was legally obligated to leave something to his wife or whether he could omit her entirely in favor of his mistress.†   (source)
  • Do not omit anything.†   (source)
  • I have taken great pains to edit this document to a readable size, deleting the repetitive sections and omitting those I found offensive.†   (source)
  • Between gulps, Jean Louise told her shame, omitting nothing, and begging that she not be sent to Mobile, stretched, or thrown against a wall.†   (source)
  • I miss my partner and find myself unequal to the cares which fall upon me...I want to say many things I must omit.†   (source)
  • He'd wanted to write a column criticizing the study, partly because it omitted what he felt were some important qualifications.†   (source)
  • Only slightly less disconcerting than the article's factual errors was the material that necessarily had to be omitted for lack of space.†   (source)
  • A master of his craft — his art, perhaps — the orator knew when to revert to the gospel of love, momentarily omitting Lucifer.†   (source)
  • He did not omit a single riddle.†   (source)
  • I talked about Albuquerque, bowling alley etiquette, Los Alamos'grown cockroaches, and walk-ups in decidedly bad neighborhoods (omitting the part about my own little nighttime foray).†   (source)
  • And John Adams's letter of January 6, describing New York as "a kind of key to the whole continent" and affirming that "no effort to secure it ought to be omitted," was anything but ambiguous.†   (source)
  • "Did it ever occur to you, Miss Taggart," said Galt, in the casual tone of an abstract discussion, but as if he had known her thoughts, "that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires-if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical?†   (source)
  • For the sake of expediency, and due to any diary's repetitious nature, the editor chose to omit various diary entries.†   (source)
  • And the schoolbook pictures of primitive man sometimes omit some of the detractions of his primitive life...the pain, the disease, famine, the hard labor needed just to stay alive.†   (source)
  • But that would have caused more problems than omitting any provision and leaving the matter, as has been done, to legislative regulation.†   (source)
  • In another letter, raising again the naval question, Adams said he was"determined to omit no opportunity of communicating my sentiments to your excellency, upon everything that appears to me to be of importance to the common cause."†   (source)
  • Very possibly there were many delegates, from North and South, happy to see the passage omitted for the reason that it was so patently absurd to hold the King responsible for horrors that, everyone knew, Americans—and Christians no less than the King—had brought on themselves.†   (source)
  • Just as your mystics of spirit invented their heaven in the image of our earth, omitting our existence, and promised you rewards created by miracle out of non-matter-so your modern mystics of muscle omit our existence and promise you a heaven where matter shapes itself of its own causeless will into all the rewards desired by your non-mind.†   (source)
  • I have one tiny fragment of Phaedrus standing in the stone corridor of a building, evidently within the University of Chicago, addressing the assistant chairman of the committee, like a detective at the end of a movie, saying: "In your description of the committee, you have omitted one important name."†   (source)
  • I described it, omitting the detail that my participation had been limited to removing the dirty plates from the refreshments table.†   (source)
  • I tell him what happened-that my loving mother kicked me out and kept my baby-omitting a little information he doesn't need to know.†   (source)
  • Just as your mystics of spirit invented their heaven in the image of our earth, omitting our existence, and promised you rewards created by miracle out of non-matter-so your modern mystics of muscle omit our existence and promise you a heaven where matter shapes itself of its own causeless will into all the rewards desired by your non-mind.†   (source)
  • Abigail, in one of her letters, aptly offered some favorite lines from Shakespeare: There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in the shallows and in miseries ....And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.†   (source)
  • They printed stories about the refusal of the wage raise, omitting any mention of who had refused it or who held the exclusive legal power to refuse, as if counting on the public to forget legal technicalities under a barrage of stories implying that an employer was the natural cause of all miseries suffered by employees.†   (source)
  • It expressly omitted the loyal slave states from its terms.†   (source)
  • In this state your patient will not omit, but he will increasingly dislike, his religious duties.†   (source)
  • This was, in a delicate and choosy way, by ignoring and omitting certain large facts, true.†   (source)
  • I had done my breathing exercises, but found it convenient today to omit the thought exercises.†   (source)
  • Mr. Ratchett had omitted to put his watch back an hour as he should have done at Tzaribrod .†   (source)
  • WILLIE—Why omit me from your Who's Who in Dypsomania, Larry?†   (source)
  • At the same time I forced myself to keep my inventory in mind from start to finish, in the right order and omitting no item.†   (source)
  • To omit a word always, to resort to inept metaphors and obvious periphrases, is perhaps the most emphatic way of stressing it.†   (source)
  • I omitted to mention her until now because she was largely omitted from the consciousness of Bigger Thomas.†   (source)
  • In compiling his book about these people Brother Juniper seemed to be pursued by the fear that in omitting the slightest detail he might lose some guiding hint.†   (source)
  • That was a phrase he might omit.†   (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)
  • It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.†   (source)
  • The doctor pointed out that Tarrou, too, had had inoculations, though it was possible, tired as he was, he'd overlooked the last one or omitted to take the necessary precautions.†   (source)
  • Frank, whose work took him all over the section, was as good as a newspaper, better even, for he was kin to or knew almost everyone from Macon north to Atlanta, and he could supply bits of interesting personal gossip which the papers always omitted.†   (source)
  • Not pursuers: but himself: years, acts, deeds omitted and committed, keeping pace with him, stride for stride, breath for breath, thud for thud of the heart, using a single heart.†   (source)
  • Omit the what-fors.†   (source)
  • Thus these men were led to break, oftener and oftener, the rules of hygiene they themselves had instituted, to omit some of the numerous disinfections they should have practiced, and sometimes to visit the homes of people suffering from pneumonic plague without taking steps to safeguard themselves against infection, because they had been notified only at the last moment and could not be bothered with returning to a sanitary service station, sometimes a considerable distance away, to have the necessary injections.†   (source)
  • When Joseph Medill asked Lincoln in 1862 why he had delivered "that radical speech," Lincoln answered: "Well, after you fellows had got me into that mess and began tempting me with offers of the Presidency, IThe last sentence is invariably omitted when this passage is quoted, perhaps because from a literary standpoint it is anticlimatic.†   (source)
  • All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies and lies; and a self-respecting author should not omit, at the close of an exposition, to dissipate these lies so far as may be in his power.†   (source)
  • All the closet doors were omitted.†   (source)
  • -we omit them.†   (source)
  • He ran photographs of religious sculpture through the ages—the Sphinx, gargoyles, totem poles—and gave great prominence to pictures of Dominique's statue, with proper captions of indignation, but omitting the model's name.†   (source)
  • It was a pale, distorted victory; a reluctant compromise that consisted of omitting columns and pediments, allowing a few stretches of wall to remain naked, apologizing for a shape—good through accident—by finishing it off with an edge of simplified Grecian volutes.†   (source)
  • It was Roark's house, but its walls were now of red brick, its windows were cut to conventional size and equipped with green shutters, two of its projecting wings were omitted, the great cantilevered terrace over the sea was replaced by a little wrought-iron balcony, and the house was provided with an entrance of Ionic columns supporting a broken pediment, and with a little spire supporting a weather vane.†   (source)
  • This day it had been omitted, and the boy grew confused in explanations that she had not asked for.†   (source)
  • Who knows but that which seems omitted to day, waits for to-morrow?†   (source)
  • But there was in all the town no heretic save Carol who omitted angel's-food.†   (source)
  • From Hans Castorp's frozen lips came formidable curses, though with the labial sounds omitted.†   (source)
  • Their time being limited (no one knew why) they had omitted France.†   (source)
  • The chapter on the Fall of the Rupee you may omit.†   (source)
  • But White Fang learned to omit these preliminaries.†   (source)
  • But Devine omitted to mention what Pilchuck's force had suffered.†   (source)
  • R. "It was the one thought that did occur to me, monsieur, so much so that I omitted to follow Mlle.†   (source)
  • But her grace was impervious to hints, and invited or omitted as she chose.†   (source)
  • The Englishman then turned round and described the combat without omitting a single detail.†   (source)
  • And he was still more angry at having omitted to say it.†   (source)
  • Nothing was omitted, on his side, of civility, compliment, or kindness, that might assist the plan.†   (source)
  • Not a fact has been omitted, not a detail has been exaggerated.†   (source)
  • I may as well relate in this place what I omitted at the time of its occurrence.†   (source)
  • He had omitted this date in the letter he had made up to read to my grandmother.†   (source)
  • The Bishop did not omit his pastoral visits because he had converted his carriage into alms.†   (source)
  • Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man.†   (source)
  • for the dunce has omitted to tell me this.†   (source)
  • Now, slowly, let us hear what befell afterwards—step by step, omitting nothing.'†   (source)
  • I have omitted to mention in its place that there was some one else at the family dinner party.†   (source)
  • Life wants padding," said Mr. Vincy, unable to omit his portable theory.†   (source)
  • Nor, in some historic instances, has the art of human malice omitted so potent an auxiliary.†   (source)
  • "And it is, Biddy," said I, "that you will not omit any opportunity of helping Joe on, a little."†   (source)
  • We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.†   (source)
  • They'll never find out that the speeches are omitted.†   (source)
  • Mitya was impatiently anxious not to omit the slightest detail.†   (source)
  • Those standing behind noticed what a speaker omitted to say and hastened to supply it.†   (source)
  • They throw themselves on one side, they omit themselves, they think not of themselves.†   (source)
  • I have omitted to mention it, by the by.†   (source)
  • From separate sheets he then read footings, which, fractions omitted, were as follows: "CR.†   (source)
  • Ah, my boy, it is not only woman's love that is [two greek words omitted] as old AEschylus calls it.†   (source)
  • It was hinted that something was here omitted.†   (source)
  • By omitting the e, though incorrectly, Pierre got the answer he sought.†   (source)
  • Nothing which is characteristic of that surprising war of the streets should be omitted.†   (source)
  • It is simpler and more respectable to omit it.†   (source)
  • This is the whole truth, and I do not think that I have omitted anything.†   (source)
  • As there is no motive for concealment, I am permitted to use them, and accordingly send you a transcript, simply omitting technical details of seamanship and supercargo.†   (source)
  • One remembers points that one has forgotten and one explains them all the more minutely since one recognizes that one has forgotten to mention them in their proper places and that one may have given, by omitting them, a false impression.†   (source)
  • "And these are the men to whom we give the vote," observed Mr. Wilcox, omitting to add that they were also the men to whom he gave work as clerks—work that scarcely encouraged them to grow into other men.†   (source)
  • He had written seven pages, whereof the first page set forth:{illustration omitted: consists of several doodles and "(1) a profession (2) Not just a trade crossed out (3) Skill & vision (3) Shd be called "realtor" & not just real est man"}The other six pages were rather like the first.†   (source)
  • Briefly Duane told her what had happened before he entered her room, not omitting a terse word as to the character of the men he had watched.†   (source)
  • I cannot undertake to say precisely what it is, but you have certainly omitted something, and you cannot be quite just while there is something lacking.†   (source)
  • From the time the Shabatas had first moved to the neighboring farm, she had omitted no opportunity of throwing Marie and Emil together.†   (source)
  • His facade is a complete architectural meal; if he had omitted a style his friends might have thought the money had given out.†   (source)
  • When he went in and said good-evening she answered with the same words, but when once he omitted to say it in order to see whether she would say it first, she said nothing at all.†   (source)
  • And I should be ungrateful indeed if I omitted, while standing on the threshold of this dreadful and veracious story, to thank the present management the Opera, which has so kindly assisted me in all my inquiries, and M. Messager in particular, together with M. Gabion, the acting-manager, and that most amiable of men, the architect intrusted with the preservation of the building, who did not hesitate to lend me the works of Charles Garnier, although he was almost sure that I would never return them to him.†   (source)
  • That desideratum would not be omitted.†   (source)
  • When the invitation came to me, there was not one word of intimation as to what I should say or as to what I should omit.†   (source)
  • It even quoted "Home, Sweet Home," and made bold to translate it into Polish—though for some reason it omitted the Lithuanian of this.†   (source)
  • She has religion, earnest, bigoted:—religion that on both sides the Veil often omits the sixth, seventh, and eighth commandments, but substitutes a dozen supplementary ones.†   (source)
  • At the camp fire which Tom replenished, Dunn recounted to Hudnall and Pilchuck the same news he had told Tom, except that he omitted comment on the presence of the women.†   (source)
  • So strong an impression had it made upon me that two hours later, after a string of mysterious utterances which did not strike me as giving my parents a sufficiently clear idea of the new importance with which I had been invested, I found it simpler to let them have a full account, omitting no detail, of the visit I had paid that afternoon.†   (source)
  • He resolved that never through remissness would he make himself liable to such a visitation or do or omit aught that might merit even verbal reproof.†   (source)
  • They were not going to lose all caste, even if they had come to be unskilled laborers in Packingtown; and that Ona had even talked of omitting a Yeselija was enough to keep her stepmother lying awake all night.†   (source)
  • She was not a clever needle-woman; her large capable hands were made for riding, rowing and open-air activities; but since other wives embroidered cushions for their husbands she did not wish to omit this last link in her devotion.†   (source)
  • If you started at the bobsled finish line in Dorf and worked your way up the slope along a forest path with several wooden bridges that crossed the run as it descended from Schatzalp, you could—omitting detours, arias, and exhausted pauses— be there in twenty minutes.†   (source)
  • I prepared myself to hear that one of our school buildings is on fire, or has burned, or that some disagreeable accident has occurred, or that some one has abused me in a public address or printed article, for something that I have done or omitted to do, or for something that he had heard that I had said—probably something that I had never thought of saying.†   (source)
  • We may remark here that he seemed anxious not to omit a single one of the recognized customs and traditions observed at weddings.†   (source)
  • Concisely he narrated all that had led up to the catastrophe, omitting nothing in Claggart's accusation and deposing as to the manner in which the prisoner had received it.†   (source)
  • He did not omit to do so.†   (source)
  • Often, before she had met the Hudnalls and Tom Doan, she had omitted that little prayer, but never since she had learned from them the meaning of friendship and love.†   (source)
  • How can morality have need of my last breaths, and why should I die listening to the consolations offered by the prince, who, without doubt, would not omit to demonstrate that death is actually a benefactor to me?†   (source)
  • The Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the teachings of nineteenth-century science and economics have omitted nothing, absolutely nothing, that seemed even vaguely useful for furthering such degradation, beginning with modern astronomy—which turned the focal point of the universe, that sublime arena where God and Satan struggled to possess the creature whom they both ardently coveted, into an unimportant little planet, and, for now at least, has put an end to man's grand position in the cosmos, upon which astrology was likewise based.†   (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)
  • Her careless allusion had no doubt been the straw held up to see which way the wind blew; the result had been reported to the family, and thereafter Archer had been tacitly omitted from their counsels.†   (source)
  • The fact is, he had given her a very small portion of the brilliants; a pretty diamond clasp, which confined a pearl necklace which she wore—and the Baronet had omitted to mention the circumstance to his lady.†   (source)
  • for ye pay tithe of mint, and anise, and cumin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith; these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.†   (source)
  • A being disappeared who was protected by none, dear to none, interesting to none, and who never even attracted to himself the attention of those students of human nature who omit no opportunity of thrusting a pin through a common fly, and examining it under the microscope.†   (source)
  • But in giving an account of the progress of my intellect, I must not omit a circumstance which occurred in the beginning of the month of August of the same year.†   (source)
  • In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.†   (source)
  • In the list of his resources his political reflections should not be omitted, for they were doubtless the animating principle of many hours that superficially seemed vacant.†   (source)
  • I cannot acquit him of that duty; nor could I think well of the man who should omit an occasion of testifying his respect towards anybody connected with the family.†   (source)
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