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  • Every two weeks, I'd get a small paycheck and notice the line where federal and state income taxes were deducted from my wages.   (source)
    deducted = subtracted
  • What will become of the tax deduction.   (source)
    deduction = amount subtracted
  • I got out my check-book and deducted four checks drawn since the first of the month, and discovered I had a balance of $1832.60.   (source)
    deducted = subtracted (from the previous balance)
  • You will have a camp job, too, sweeping the wooden platform every afternoon, for which they will deduct a little from our rent each month.†   (source)
  • The barite mine where Dad worked had a commissary, and the mine owner deducted our bill and the rent for the depot out of Dad's paycheck every month.†   (source)
  • The sale value of these items will, of course, be deducted from your outstanding credit balance.†   (source)
  • "After we deduct salaries and expenses, I can't say there will be any proceeds.†   (source)
  • Extra push-ups, reduced rations—he could even deduct some points.†   (source)
  • They deduct the price from your scholarship, same as room and board.†   (source)
  • Give them two hours a day, deducted from their training time.†   (source)
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  • Ned wouldn't even have to worry about handling the six dollars—Holmes would deduct it from the new eighteen-dollar salary each week, automatically.†   (source)
  • The company charged a small monthly rent, automatically deducted from the miners' pay.†   (source)
  • That whole week Baby Kochamma eavesdropped relentlessly on the twins' private conversations, and whenever she caught them speaking in Malayalam, she levied a small fine which was deducted at source.†   (source)
  • We'll bank the entire tithe openly in the name of Shaddam IV and deduct it legally from our levy support costs.†   (source)
  • If you now deduct the workers' wages and the other production costs from the exchange-value, there will always be a certain sum left over.†   (source)
  • It's my own money, and I can't really deduct you as a dependant."†   (source)
  • Kastor will deduct five points off my grade if I don't hand my paper in by the end of first period!"†   (source)
  • You can deduct him from the price.†   (source)
  • She'd been working here ever since and he never deducted the fee from her salary because he needed someone, he said, to listen to his jokes.†   (source)
  • "The smallfolk will love you more if you are kind," she had said, so Cersei had ordered the value of the gowns deducted from the women's wages, a much more elegant solution.†   (source)
  • He deducts for telephone calls.†   (source)
  • If we balance a proper deduction from one side against what ought to be deducted from the other, the proportion may still stand.†   (source)
  • I can't fire a shot until thirty minutes before the sun comes up, so I have to constantly look to see when the sun is going to rise and then deduct thirty minutes to determine when I can fire my first shot.†   (source)
  • "It's a big expense and I'm not sure how much the IRS will let me deduct.†   (source)
  • She said shortly and finally that she had said she would deduct that amount and she intended to keep her word.†   (source)
  • He tells me what I can deduct on my income tax return.†   (source)
  • We might even deduct them from the number of "real" representatives.†   (source)
  • Then a slice would have been delivered to my door in a matter of minutes, and the cost (including tip) would have been deducted from my OASIS account balance.†   (source)
  • The failure of this idea, he wrote in a formal critique for The Inland Architect, "deducted much" from the fair's value, although he hastened to add that he was making this criticism "not in the least in a complaining way" but as a professional offering guidance to others who might confront a similar problem.†   (source)
  • I would be paid $28,500 a year, minus the cost of my housing, meals, taxes, medical, dental, optical, and recreation services, all of which would be deducted automatically from my pay.†   (source)
  • However, we will not deduct the large number of representatives who do not live among their constituents, are very little connected with them, and have little knowledge of their affairs.†   (source)
  • As she came to those who had not obeyed her summons that first day, she deducted half a crown, handing over the balance in silver; the average wage was about fifteen shillings, for the month.†   (source)
  • Ralston Holcombe was now sixty-five, to which he added a few years, for the sake of his friends' compliments on his wonderful physique; Mrs. Ralston Holcombe was forty-two, from which she deducted considerably.†   (source)
  • Personally I am only too ready to consider all your claims carefully, and deduct what is right from the total before putting in my own claim.†   (source)
  • Certainly I can afford it, I could deduct you, as my caretaker, Chance, remember that I was a star before big taxes … and had a husband who was a great merchant prince.†   (source)
  • The city officials, who thought they were in charge of the project, were furious about the sums Tanimoto had deducted.†   (source)
  • It's included in the daily rate, and I can't ask them to deduct it.†   (source)
  • At the beginning of each quarter, he deducted from the interest earned—without any prejudice to his sense of family ties—a commission of 2 percent.†   (source)
  • And in consequence, in addition to paying her own expenses here, Mrs. Griffiths was literally compelled to deduct other reducing sums from this, her present and only source of income.†   (source)
  • Of the five-and-twenty pounds which had remained to her of Clare's allowance, after deducting the other half of the fifty as a contribution to her parents for the trouble and expense to which she had put them, she had as yet spent but little.†   (source)
  • Then, because Wesson lived in one of the company's houses, and his rent had been deducted, Morel and Barker took four-and-six each.†   (source)
  • Deducting from this the rent, interest, and installments on the furniture, they had left sixty dollars, and deducting the coal, they had fifty.†   (source)
  • From this they had to deduct their carfare, since the distance was so great; but after a while they made friends, and learned still more, and then they would save their carfare.†   (source)
  • Then there was well-bred economy, which in those days made show in dress the first item to be deducted from, when any margin was required for expenses more distinctive of rank.†   (source)
  • What made it all so difficult was that Dounia received a hundred roubles in advance when she took the place as governess in their family, on condition of part of her salary being deducted every month, and so it was impossible to throw up the situation without repaying the debt.†   (source)
  • 'Let me see; four fives is twenty, double that, and deduct the—well, a pound either way shall not stand betwixt us.†   (source)
  • The first heedless scheme had been to go in the morning and return at night; but to this Mr Musgrove, for the sake of his horses, would not consent; and when it came to be rationally considered, a day in the middle of November would not leave much time for seeing a new place, after deducting seven hours, as the nature of the country required, for going and returning.†   (source)
  • Moreover, if we deduct the public duties which require to be fulfilled first of all, that deep tenderness of Louis Philippe towards his family was deserved by the family.†   (source)
  • Miss Pross's fidelity of belief in Solomon (deducting a mere trifle for this slight mistake) was quite a serious matter with Mr. Lorry, and had its weight in his good opinion of her.†   (source)
  • A disposition began to be perceived in him to exaggerate the number of years he had been there; it was generally understood that you must deduct a few from his account; he was vain, the fleeting generations of debtors said.†   (source)
  • The Christmas holidays he spent—deducting ten days for private amusements—with Lurgan Sahib, where he sat for the most part in front of a roaring wood-fire—Jakko road was four feet deep in snow that year—and—the small Hindu had gone away to be married—helped Lurgan to thread pearls.†   (source)
  • But instead of two thousand francs he brought only eighteen hundred, for the friend Vincart (which was only fair) had deducted two hundred francs for commission and discount.†   (source)
  • There was a sale of the furniture and lease, at Norwood; and Tiffey told me, little thinking how interested I was in the story, that, paying all the just debts of the deceased, and deducting his share of outstanding bad and doubtful debts due to the firm, he wouldn't give a thousand pounds for all the assets remaining.†   (source)
  • He deducted, however, from Passepartout's share the cost of the gas which had burned in his room for nineteen hundred and twenty hours, for the sake of regularity.†   (source)
  • 44 Deducting the outgoes….†   (source)
  • Now it has been one of my duties of late to pay Flite a certain weekly allowance, deducting from it the amount of her weekly rent, which I have paid (in consequence of instructions I have received) to Krook himself, regularly in her presence.†   (source)
  • With another sigh Mr Knag took up the kitchen candles from the counter, and preceded the ladies with mournful steps to a back-parlour, where a charwoman, employed in the absence of the sick servant, and remunerated with certain eighteenpences to be deducted from her wages due, was putting the supper out.†   (source)
  • Only the advocate's fee must be deducted.†   (source)
  • The end then of these Bodies of Merchants, being not a Common benefit to the whole Body, (which have in this case no common stock, but what is deducted out of the particular adventures, for building, buying, victualling and manning of Ships,) but the particular gaine of every adventurer, it is reason that every one be acquainted with the employment of his own; that is, that every one be of the Assembly, that shall have the power to order the same; and be acquainted with their accounts.†   (source)
  • The trembling clown replied that as he lived and by the oath he had sworn (though he had not sworn any) it was not so much; for there were to be taken into account and deducted three pairs of shoes he had given him, and a real for two blood-lettings when he was sick.†   (source)
  • Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide; First strip off all her equipage of pride; Deduct what is but vanity or dress, Or learning's luxury, or idleness; Or tricks to show the stretch of human brain, Mere curious pleasure, or ingenious pain; Expunge the whole, or lop th' excrescent parts Of all our vices have created arts; Then see how little the remaining sum, Which served the past, and must the times to come!†   (source)
  • Item, I leave all my property absolutely to Antonia Quixana my niece, here present, after all has been deducted from the most available portion of it that may be required to satisfy the bequests I have made.†   (source)
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  • Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry.   (source)
    deduction = logical conclusion
  • Given what we know, it is the only logical deduction.
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  • Based on large amounts of observational data and experiments, we make strict, logical deductions to build a model of the universe.†   (source)
  • Once they got finished slapping you with pay deductions, late fees, and interest penalties, you wound up owing them more each month, instead of less.†   (source)
  • There will be three tasks, spaced throughout the school year, and they will test the champions in many different ways… their magical prowess — their daring — their powers of deduction — and, of course, their ability to cope with danger.†   (source)
  • "In other words," Harriet said,"you want us to risk our lives because of this brilliant deduction."†   (source)
  • The best paleontologists were the ones who could make the most clever deductions.†   (source)
  • The confinement building man from Kansas was staying at the motel in Zebulon Center, and said that while there was a company policy against meals with the people they were working for, because it screwed up expense account tax deductions, he'd be happy to make one exception and eat with us the next night, if we wanted.†   (source)
  • Lower right cheek or upper thigh would seem by deduction to be the most likely.†   (source)
  • He raised his eyebrows as if I'd surprised him with my powers of deduction.†   (source)
  • Two-point deduction for Paris.†   (source)
  • He was an avid pilot, and the new legislation also provided tax deductions for ConAgra's corporate jets.†   (source)
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  • But again, deduction (or educated guesswork, if you wanted to be snotty) made it easier to believe there had been none.†   (source)
  • That is deduction.†   (source)
  • She began to talk, pulling deductions from the top of her head.†   (source)
  • But unluckiest of all was the shooter who completely missed a walker: he faced both a one-point deduction and a lifetime of ribbing.†   (source)
  • If they hoped to finish well, the Fugees needed to win, and as important, to avoid getting any red cards, which brought mandatory point deductions.†   (source)
  • "It's somewhere between a guess and a deduction."†   (source)
  • For three hours, she'd listened to Bob drone on and on about itemized deductions and capital gains distributions, depreciation and 401(k) rollovers.†   (source)
  • They were going to need a lot more than that, so Fredi printed up brochures that explained that anybody who donated to the club would get a dollar-for-dollar Arizona state tax deduction.†   (source)
  • "That's an excellent deduction, John," said Charles.†   (source)
  • On top of the TV Guide is an orange envelope from the U.S. Treasury: a stub noting the direct deposit of her check and the automatic 10 percent deduction into a savings account for her church tithing.†   (source)
  • None of this mattered to Ryan, but he drew some comfort from the fact that he was able to think clearly enough to make simple deductions.†   (source)
  • To continue the deduction.†   (source)
  • Heightened powers of deduction meaning being able to read all the signs on the highway saying "Itex — Exit 398."†   (source)
  • Brilliant deduction.†   (source)
  • The obvious meaning of the clauses shows that the deduction is not even plausible.†   (source)
  • Do you know how they assess what cards or payments trigger what kinds of deduction to your credit score?†   (source)
  • I had been trained for years to make accurate deductions from natural phenomena, but this situation was beyond me.†   (source)
  • That's good deduction but we can't be certain.†   (source)
  • I only did his legal tax deductions, so I wouldn't have seen it if it was.†   (source)
  • Finally, by deduction I pegged you for a Polack, excuse me, divined that you were of Polish extraction.†   (source)
  • After that masterly analysis, apply your powers of deduction and tell me why Lieutenant Silva failed to transfer him three weeks ago when we arrived around Sanctuary.†   (source)
  • I confess that I myself have been guilty of excessive reluctance in reaching such a seemingly fantastic deduction.†   (source)
  • Our example is debatable and unsuitable for deductions.†   (source)
  • I don't want to be forced to make a deduction from your salaries!†   (source)
  • So we navigate mostly by dead reckoning, and deduction from what clues we find.†   (source)
  • "Here's an itemized schedule of deductions from the year Kennedy was assassinated.†   (source)
  • One false deduction about the machine and you can get hung up indefinitely.†   (source)
  • The deduction for taxes before the fact did not anger Charity at all.†   (source)
  • It would come minus a deduction of roughly eight hundred dollars for taxes.†   (source)
  • Thus far, as I hope you agree, I have shown you reasonably firm sources of fact for my deductions as to what Voldemort did until the age of seventeen?†   (source)
  • The doctors, lawyers, and stockbrokers now running cattle on some of Colorado's most beautiful land can own big ranches, preserve open space with easements, and enjoy the big tax deductions.†   (source)
  • The course of their deductions was not apt to lead to such an unlikely possibility as kidnapping, at least not at first, and probably never.†   (source)
  • For 150 years, ever since the discovery of gigantic animal bones in Europe, the study of dinosaurs had been an exercise in scientific deduction.†   (source)
  • As she continued to mull over these thoughts, a deduction made her shudder: Is it possible that the relationship between humanity and evil is similar to the relationship between the ocean and an iceberg floating on its surface?†   (source)
  • Watson is amazed by how Holmes could deduce the man's history, but Holmes can't articulate his reasoning and has to think for a while to figure out his chain of deductions.†   (source)
  • His other deductions might be like houses built on quicksand, but this view of Annie Wilkes seemed to him as solid as the Rock of Gibraltar.†   (source)
  • The supreme task — is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction.†   (source)
  • When trying to recreate a whole pattern by deduction from fragments I am bound to commit errors and put down inconsistencies, for which I must ask some indulgence.†   (source)
  • Hume had previously submitted that if one follows the strictest rules of logical induction and deduction from experience to determine the true nature of the world, one must arrive at certain conclusions.†   (source)
  • When that didn't work, she stressed the tax deduction angle, and—because she had worked hard to cultivate contacts with tax and estate lawyers throughout the South—she often received items before other libraries even found out about them.†   (source)
  • Therefore, my deduction would be he knew or suspected something about the substance that put him off.†   (source)
  • Excellent deduction.†   (source)
  • Through our sheer instinct and heightened powers of deduction, we had zeroed in on the place that might hold some answers for us.†   (source)
  • "It's a simple enough deduction."†   (source)
  • If we balance a proper deduction from one side against what ought to be deducted from the other, the proportion may still stand.†   (source)
  • That means a C or maybe even an F. He chews on this prospect for a moment and looks to shore it up, meditating that the upholding of accepted academic standards is precisely what enables institutions like Brown to offer a diploma that has meaning, a seal showing that the recipients can master valuable skills of reasoned discourse, of deduction, exposition, and logical thinking, abilities that will help them to approach any subject, no matter how foreign, throughout their lives.†   (source)
  • Heightened powers of deduction meaning being able to read all the signs on the highway saying "Itex — Exit 398."†   (source)
  • For a long time nothing was heard from the bookkeeping department; then a boy came into the office with a pay sheet and a pile of records that had been consulted for the deduction of fines.†   (source)
  • Dan was so absorbed in his deductions and forebodings that he failed to see the woman sitting on the edge of the road until he was almost abreast of her.†   (source)
  • In matters of that kind he was wholly uninquisitive: he knew that no conceivable good could come of his deductions.†   (source)
  • His intelligence lacked the capacity for bold leaps into the unknown, the sudden flashes of insight that transcend barren, logical deductions.†   (source)
  • But what is often called an intuition is really impression based on logical deduction or experience.†   (source)
  • You have been contradicting her and making whatever additions and deductions seem good to you.†   (source)
  • Your masterly deductions-and may I add, your discretion?†   (source)
  • When Japp returned from his expedition, he confirmed all my deductions.†   (source)
  • We have to rely solely on deduction.†   (source)
  • …above a maelstrom of unpredictable and unreasoning human beings, not his head for breath and not so much his fifty years of effort and striving to establish a posterity, but his code of logic and morality, his formula and recipe of fact and deduction whose balanced sum and product declined, refused to swim or even float; —saw him approach the Holston House and saw old Mr McCaslin and two other old men hobble out and stop him, he sitting the stallion and talking to them and his voice…†   (source)
  • That's deduction.†   (source)
  • Let us make our deductions together.†   (source)
  • But what he must never be permitted to doubt is that the total from which these deductions have been made was, in some mysterious sense, his own personal birthright.†   (source)
  • Taking advantage of huge tax deductions that Japanese doctors could claim, he saved large sums, and as he returned money on his bank loans the bank kept raising his line of credit.†   (source)
  • He had heard enough to turn another key in the locked mystery, and it fitted so well that he wondered he had failed to supply it by his own deductions.†   (source)
  • Should you wish to make the inevitable deductions from this basic conception, you may come to conclusions of vast sociological importance.†   (source)
  • She can go on living—not by principle, not by deduction, not by knowledge of good and evil, but simply by a peculiar and shifting sense of balance which defies each of these things often.†   (source)
  • In spite of the enormous tax deductions allowed Japanese doctors, he had come to be the payer of the highest income tax in Takata County (population thirty-seven thousand), and his tax was among the ten highest in all of Hiroshima Prefecture (twelve cities and sixty-eight towns in fifteen counties; population two million seven hundred thousand).†   (source)
  • We had had no interesting cases of late, nothing on which my little friend could exercise his keen wits and remarkable powers of deduction.†   (source)
  • "I hardly consider that a fair deduction," he said.†   (source)
  • Link studied these points and looked up the slope, and seemed to be making deductions.†   (source)
  • He made his own deductions and, lifting his head, waited for the scout to speak.†   (source)
  • Dale made his deductions, after which he stood in a brown study beside his horse, waiting for John.†   (source)
  • I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his process of deduction.†   (source)
  • It gives us the basis for several deductions.†   (source)
  • Only that you have disarranged our little deductions.†   (source)
  • I am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your deductions and your inferences.†   (source)
  • "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said Lestrade, winking at me.†   (source)
  • Emma could not deplore her future absence as any deduction from her own enjoyment.†   (source)
  • A reason can be given for my smallest deductions.†   (source)
  • For a Frenchman that deduction was indubitable.†   (source)
  • As will be seen, the proper deduction having been made, the King's charge is decreased.†   (source)
  • His art is less for every deduction from his holiness, and less for every defect of common sense.†   (source)
  • Why, of course, the laws of nature, the deductions of natural science, mathematics.†   (source)
  • "And what is your deduction from this compensation, sir?" inquired Monte Cristo.†   (source)
  • I said 'legitimate deductions;' but my meaning is not thus fully expressed.†   (source)
  • It needs no critical exertion to reduce utterly to dust any deductions drawn from history.†   (source)
  • I congratulate them on the deduction.†   (source)
  • She leaned back, sipping her tea with an air so enchantingly judicial that, if they had been in her aunt's drawing-room, he might almost have tried to disprove her deduction.†   (source)
  • Permit me to observe, however, that I cannot follow your deductions, that I reject them, indeed, that I stand in positive opposition to them.†   (source)
  • This deduction was indeed a thought-disturber, but Duane put it aside to crystallize and for more careful consideration.†   (source)
  • For, from an incomplete and changing set of images, Swann in his sleep drew false deductions, enjoying, at the same time, such creative power that he was able to reproduce himself by a simple act of division, like certain lower organisms; with the warmth that he felt in his own palm he modelled the hollow of a strange hand which he thought that he was clasping, and out of feelings and impressions of which he was not yet conscious, he brought about sudden vicissitudes which, by a chain…†   (source)
  • Had she the remotest doubt of the correctness of her deductions, she would have had them confirmed now, for Sir Andrew, completely taken by surprise, had grown very pale, and was quite incapable of making the slightest attempt at clever parrying.†   (source)
  • However, Madeline had a curious desire, which she did not wholly admit to herself, to see the cowboy and make her own deductions.†   (source)
  • So that no logic, or logical deductions, had anything to do with my resolve;—it was simply a matter of disgust.†   (source)
  • You may have to stay here with me—for weeks—maybe months—if we've the bad luck to get snowed in," he said, slowly, as if startled at this deduction.†   (source)
  • The scout told briefly the circumstances surrounding the murder of Hudnall, and said he would leave his deductions for later.†   (source)
  • Of course, it is all the same to me, but just now—and perhaps only at this moment—I desire that all those who are to judge of my action should see clearly out of how logical a sequence of deductions has at length proceeded my 'last conviction.'†   (source)
  • Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting specimen of the London slavey.†   (source)
  • Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of analysis and deduction!†   (source)
  • In the latter, as may be remembered, Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time—a deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the case.†   (source)
  • …that you have so far grasped this truth that in these little records of our cases which you have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made my special province.†   (source)
  • You see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much more important and less innocent aspect.†   (source)
  • I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were submitted to him.†   (source)
  • It's plain, then, that I must have the whole amount, clear of all deduction or incumbrance, or I should lose from being honoured with your confidence, instead of gaining by it.†   (source)
  • He was not a remarkably fluent reader, and was in the habit of reading in a sort of recitative half-aloud, by way of calling in his ears to verify the deductions of his eyes.†   (source)
  • That is the deduction of reason.†   (source)
  • If we are required to believe in doctrines that seem not in conformity with the deductions of human wisdom, let us never forget that such is the mandate of a wisdom that is infinite.†   (source)
  • For, thought Ahab, while even the highest earthly felicities ever have a certain unsignifying pettiness lurking in them, but, at bottom, all heartwoes, a mystic significance, and, in some men, an archangelic grandeur; so do their diligent tracings-out not belie the obvious deduction.†   (source)
  • The little that was left in the world, when all these deductions were made, it was Mrs General's province to varnish.†   (source)
  • But I will go further in my deductions, and I will affirm that this specimen of the human family is of the Japhetic race, which has since spread from the Indies to the Atlantic.†   (source)
  • When Lebeziatnikov finished his long-winded harangue with the logical deduction at the end, he was quite tired, and the perspiration streamed from his face.†   (source)
  • That the executive head of a nation should be a person of lofty character and extraordinary ability, was manifest and indisputable; that none but the Deity could select that head unerringly, was also manifest and indisputable; that the Deity ought to make that selection, then, was likewise manifest and indisputable; consequently, that He does make it, as claimed, was an unavoidable deduction.†   (source)
  • It seemed to establish for the prosecution (and they did, in fact, base this deduction on it) that half, or a part of, the three thousand that had come into Mitya's hands might really have been left somewhere hidden in the town, or even, perhaps, somewhere here, in Mokroe.†   (source)
  • For the grievances against Louis Philippe, there is one deduction to be made; there is that which accuses royalty, that which accuses the reign, that which accuses the King; three columns which all give different totals.†   (source)
  • The great man will not be prudent in the popular sense; all his prudence will be so much deduction from his grandeur.†   (source)
  • But they immediately drew the deduction that the crime could only have been committed through temporary mental derangement, through homicidal mania, without object or the pursuit of gain.†   (source)
  • She has also the testimony of missionaries, among the fugitives in Canada, in coincidence with her own experience; and her deductions, with regard to the capabilities of the race, are encouraging in the highest degree.†   (source)
  • The last he held to be a very logical deduction from the premises, inasmuch as it was but natural to suppose that a young lady, whose present condition was so unenviable, would be more than commonly desirous to change it.†   (source)
  • For her this was one of those discoveries the consequences and deductions from which are so immense that all that one feels for the first instant is that it is impossible to take it all in, and that one will have to reflect a great, great deal upon it.†   (source)
  • Our player confines himself not at all; nor, because the game is the object, does he reject deductions from things external to the game.†   (source)
  • "My deduction is," replied Villefort, "that my father, led away by his passions, has committed some fault unknown to human justice, but marked by the justice of God.†   (source)
  • We shall know what an immense deduction must be made from all the influences and experiences that have formed us—no parents, no child-brother or sister, no individuality of home, no Glass Slipper, or Fairy Godmother.†   (source)
  • A real injury to the children—a most mortifying change, and material loss to them all;—a very great deduction from her father's daily comfort—and, as to herself, she could not at all endure the idea of Jane Fairfax at Donwell Abbey.†   (source)
  • But man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.†   (source)
  • Not with the organs of sight; but with much more infallible instruments of vision: the conclusions of reason, and the deductions of scientific premises.†   (source)
  • He heard what they said, but did not understand the meaning of the words and made no kind of deduction from or application of them.†   (source)
  • Long habit of weighing and noting well what clients said, and nicely balancing chances in his mind and calculating odds to their faces, without the least appearance of being so engaged, had rendered Gride quick in forming conclusions, and arriving, from puzzling, intricate, and often contradictory premises, at very cunning deductions.†   (source)
  • In some manner there will be a demonstration of the wrong to the understanding also; but should we not see it, this deadly deduction makes square the eternal account.†   (source)
  • Pending which, the long-initiated Tip, with an awful enjoyment of the Snuggery's resources, pointed out the common kitchen fire maintained by subscription of collegians, the boiler for hot water supported in like manner, and other premises generally tending to the deduction that the way to be healthy, wealthy, and wise, was to come to the Marshalsea.†   (source)
  • But he had never connected these scientific deductions as to the origin of man as an animal, as to reflex action, biology, and sociology, with those questions as to the meaning of life and death to himself, which had of late been more and more often in his mind.†   (source)
  • I designed to imply that the deductions are the sole proper ones, and that the suspicion arises inevitably from them as the single result.†   (source)
  • "Friend hunter, or trapper," returned the naturalist, clearing his throat in some intellectual confusion at the vigorous attack of his companion, "your deductions, if admitted by the world, would sadly circumscribe the efforts of reason, and much abridge the boundaries of knowledge."†   (source)
  • This something was a most subtle spiritual deduction from a conversation with Karataev the day before.†   (source)
  • "I know not," continued Dupin, "what impression I may have made, so far, upon your own understanding; but I do not hesitate to say that legitimate deductions even from this portion of the testimony--the portion respecting the gruff and shrill voices--are in themselves sufficient to engender a suspicion which should give direction to all farther progress in the investigation of the mystery.†   (source)
  • Along that line of thought such a deduction is indubitable, as indubitable as the deduction Voltaire made in jest (without knowing what he was jesting at) when he saw that the Massacre of St. Bartholomew was due to Charles IX's stomach being deranged.†   (source)
  • The incontestable proof of this deduction is that, however many commands were issued, the event does not take place unless there are other causes for it, but as soon as an event occurs—be it what it may—then out of all the continually expressed wishes of different people some will always be found which by their meaning and their time of utterance are related as commands to the events.†   (source)
  • Natasha and Pierre, left alone, also began to talk as only a husband and wife can talk, that is, with extraordinary clearness and rapidity, understanding and expressing each other's thoughts in ways contrary to all rules of logic, without premises, deductions, or conclusions, and in a quite peculiar way.†   (source)
  • But the same series of experiments and arguments proves to him that the complete freedom of which he is conscious in himself is impossible, and that his every action depends on his organization, his character, and the motives acting upon him; yet man never submits to the deductions of these experiments and arguments.†   (source)
  • A living, of which Mr. Morland was himself patron and incumbent, of about four hundred pounds yearly value, was to be resigned to his son as soon as he should be old enough to take it; no trifling deduction from the family income, no niggardly assignment to one of ten children.†   (source)
  • …other, so as to produce an infinite complexity of pain and pleasure; he considers man in his own nature and in his ordinary life as contemplating this with a certain quantity of immediate knowledge, with certain convictions, intuitions, and deductions which by habit become of the nature of intuitions; he considers him as looking upon this complex scene of ideas and sensations, and finding every where objects that immediately excite in him sympathies which, from the necessities of his…†   (source)
  • Well, nice to have confirmation of my deductions, I supposed.†   (source)
  • "[70] The theory, at that time, was somewhat strange to English grammarians and etymologists, despite the investigations of A. J. Ellis and the massive lesson of Grimm's law; their labors were largely wasted upon deductions from the written word.†   (source)
  • But in England, during the pedantic eighteenth century, this /i/-sound was displaced by the original /oi/-sound, not by historical research but by mere deduction from the spelling, and the new pronunciation soon extended to the polite speech of America.†   (source)
  • When, in preparing materials for the following chapters, I sought to determine the history of the /a/-sound in America, I found it necessary to plow through scores of ancient spelling-books, and to make deductions, perhaps sometimes rather rash, from the works of Franklin, Webster and Cobb.†   (source)
  • Leave to libertines these foolish deductions.†   (source)
  • Would not the mere circumstance of freight occasion a considerable deduction?†   (source)
  • And thus much shall suffice; concerning what I find by speculation, and deduction, of Soveraign Rights, from the nature, need, and designes of men, in erecting of Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Monarchs, or Assemblies, entrusted with power enough for their protection.†   (source)
  • A Rule, By Which The Laws Of Nature May Easily Be Examined And though this may seem too subtile a deduction of the Lawes of Nature, to be taken notice of by all men; whereof the most part are too busie in getting food, and the rest too negligent to understand; yet to leave all men unexcusable, they have been contracted into one easie sum, intelligible even to the meanest capacity; and that is, "Do not that to another, which thou wouldest not have done to thy selfe;" which sheweth him,…†   (source)
  • They might therefore, with great propriety, be considered as something more than a mere deduction from the real representatives of the nation.†   (source)
  • But making every deduction for these considerations, the trial by jury must still be a valuable check upon corruption.†   (source)
  • A slight attention to the connection of the clauses, and to the obvious meaning of the terms, will satisfy us that the deduction is not even colorable.†   (source)
  • If we balance a proper deduction from one side against that which it is supposed ought to be made from the other, the proportion may still be considered as holding good.†   (source)
  • It would form an annual deduction from the productive labor of the country, to an amount which, calculating upon the present numbers of the people, would not fall far short of the whole expense of the civil establishments of all the States.†   (source)
  • We will, however, consider them in this light alone, and will not extend the deduction to a considerable number of others, who do not reside among their constitutents, are very faintly connected with them, and have very little particular knowledge of their affairs.†   (source)
  • This mode of reasoning appears sometimes to turn upon the supposition of usurpation in the national government; at other times it seems to be designed only as a deduction from the constitutional operation of its intended powers.†   (source)
  • And making the proper deductions for the ordinary depravity of human nature, the number must be still smaller of those who unite the requisite integrity with the requisite knowledge.†   (source)
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