All 10 Uses
moreover
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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- The people could not have stood it; and, moreover, I should have had the Established Roman Catholic Church on my back in a minute.†
Chpt 10 *
- When I trotted, I rattled like a crate of dishes, and that annoyed me; and moreover I couldn't seem to stand that shield slatting and banging, now about my breast, now around my back; and if I dropped into a walk my joints creaked and screeched in that wearisome way that a wheelbarrow does, and as we didn't create any breeze at that gait, I was like to get fried in that stove; and besides, the quieter you went the heavier the iron settled down on you and the more and more tons you seemed to weigh every minute.†
Chpt 12
- I wanted to think that out; and moreover I wanted to think out some way to reform this evil and persuade the people to let the foolish fashion die out; but thinking was out of the question in the circumstances.†
Chpt 12
- She was a commoner, and had been sent here on her bridal night by Sir Breuse Sance Pite, a neighboring lord whose vassal her father was, and to which said lord she had refused what has since been called le droit du seigneur, and, moreover, had opposed violence to violence and spilt half a gill of his almost sacred blood.†
Chpt 18
- And, moreover, when you come right down to the bedrock, knight-errantry is worse than pork; for whatever happens, the pork's left, and so somebody's benefited anyway; but when the market breaks, in a knight-errantry whirl, and every knight in the pool passes in his checks, what have you got for assets?†
Chpt 19
- And I asked them to take a duster and dust around a little where the nobilities had mainly lodged and promenaded; but they considered that that would be hardly worth while, and would moreover be a rather grave departure from custom, and therefore likely to make talk.†
Chpt 21
- Moreover—and this was the master stroke —it should be decreed that these princely grandees should be always addressed by a stunningly gaudy and awe-compelling title (which I would presently invent), and they and they only in all England should be so addressed.†
Chpt 25
- Moreover, the next to the last line was calculated to give offense to the hermits, and perhaps lose us their advertising.†
Chpt 26
- Moreover, a magistrate won't be able to force a man to work for a master a whole year on a stretch whether the man wants to or not.†
Chpt 33
- Moreover, it was beyond estimate.†
Chpt 43
Definitions:
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(1)
(moreover) in addition to what has just been said
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)