"Awarding" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... scarcely be said to be any improvement on them since he failed to bring them to practical usefulness, and his countrymen will have to be satisfied with awarding the honor of its complete adaptation to practical purposes, to MM. Niepce and Daguerre of France, and to Professors Draper, and ...
— The History and Practice of the Art of Photography • Henry H. Snelling
... President's loss would probably have been no greater than that of the Constitution in taking the Java. It is difficult to see how any outsider with an ounce of common-sense and fairmindedness can help awarding the palm to Decatur, as regards the action with the Endymion. But I regret to say that I must agree with James that he acted rather tamely, certainly not heroically, in striking to the Pomone. There was, of course, not much chance of success in doing battle with two fresh ...
— The Naval War of 1812 • Theodore Roosevelt
... policeman, who, comically, had imagined that a blazer, the top garment worn by schoolboys of that era (and mine) was a kind of lucifer, which in turn was a kind of match used before the invention of the safety-match. This is a particularly amusing episode, terminating in the magistrate awarding the school-keeper, who had been slightly injured, one guinea costs, to pay for his bandages, which he pays out ...
— Tom, Dick and Harry • Talbot Baines Reed
... into use from the practice of courts of justice, which have been naturally led to a more complete recognition and elaboration than was likely to suggest itself to others, of the rules necessary to enable them to fulfil their double function, of inflicting punishment when due, and of awarding ...
— Utilitarianism • John Stuart Mill
... properly, is the judge in a contest, who confers the prizes, and on whose decision the awarding of the prizes depends: [Greek: brabeutes] is the same. [Greek: Brabeion] is the prize. [Greek: Brabeia], and in the plural [Greek: brabeiai], the very act of ...
— The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. • Euripides
|
