"Enumerate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... all conveniencies about them. Sir Allan M'Lean, who had been long in the army, and had now a lease of the island, had formed a commodious habitation, though it consisted but of a few small buildings, only one story high. He had, in his little apartments, more things than I could enumerate in a page ...
— The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. • James Boswell
... be a little difficult," said Victoria, "to get a woman with the qualifications you enumerate and a sense ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... man that has suffered more from the injustice of society than I have done? I was accused of a villainy that my heart abhorred. I was sent to jail. I will not enumerate the horrors of my prison, the lightest of which would make the heart of humanity shudder. I looked forward to the gallows! Young, ambitious, fond of life, innocent as the child unborn, I looked forward to the gallows! I believed that one word of resolute accusation ...
— Caleb Williams - Things As They Are • William Godwin
... twelve portions from mosquito. Solution: requiring king to make stove, pan, and bolo (or twelve forks) from needle (pin). Analogous to this task is Bolte and Polivka's motif B3 (2 : 349), the challenge to weave a cloth out of two threads. Bolte and Polivka enumerate thirty-five European folk-tales containing ...
— Filipino Popular Tales • Dean S. Fansler
... may go we should question the sanity of anyone who put forward so foolish a proposition. Every great step which Nature and man have taken in the path of progress has been beset by dangers which are gladly risked because of the advantages involved. We have still to enumerate some of the immense advantages which Man has gained in acquiring a conscious and deliberate control ...
— Essays in War-Time - Further Studies In The Task Of Social Hygiene • Havelock Ellis
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