"Contributory" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I suppose. It wasn't anything dishonorable. The main contributory cause was an alleged poem lampooning some ...
— Cappy Ricks Retires • Peter B. Kyne
... for children of two or of three years of age, whose case we are now considering, to be troubled by bad dreams, nightmares, or night-terrors. If these should occur, obstructed breathing due to adenoid vegetations is sometimes at work as a contributory cause. ...
— The Nervous Child • Hector Charles Cameron
... Prichard with a writing-table as good as new. Open it, of course, you could! It was a locksmith's job, but the governor would send the shop's locksmith, who would do that for you while you counted half-a-dozen. The counting was optional, and in no sense necessary, nor even contributory, to ...
— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan
... had ceased to be the feudal monarchy—the ramification of contributory courts and camps—of the crude days of William the Conqueror and his successors. The Norman lords and their English dependants no longer formed two separate elements in the body politic. In the great French wars of Edward ...
— Chaucer • Adolphus William Ward
... committee have been untiring and have accomplished much. Arrangements for free transportation to Cuba have greatly aided the charitable work. The president of the American Red Cross and representatives of other contributory organizations have generously visited Cuba and cooperated with the consul-general and the local authorities to make effective distribution of the relief collected through the efforts of the central ...
— Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents • William McKinley
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