"Exceed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... happened—in a prophetic dream, as it were. One cablegram says, "Business in the native town is about suspended. Except the wailing and the tramp of the funerals. There is but little life or movement. The closed shops exceed in number those that remain open." Another says that 325,000 of the people have fled the city and are carrying the plague to the country. Three days later comes the news, "The population is reduced by half." The refugees have carried the disease to Karachi; "220 cases, 214 deaths." A day or ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... of cases in which all the eight attributes of the stars discussed in the first chapter are well known for one star is very small, and certainly does not exceed one hundred. These cases refer principally to such stars as are characterized either by great brilliancy or by a great proper motion. The principal reason why these stars are better known than others is that they lie rather near our solar system. Before passing on to consider ...
— Lectures on Stellar Statistics • Carl Vilhelm Ludvig Charlier
... to every person (even to infants) who applies at the gate, is given a loaf of brown bread, weighing about three pounds. This distribution is continued until all the bread is given away; and if the applicants should exceed the loaves in number, to each of the remaining persons is given an halfpenny, ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 569 - Volume XX., No. 569. Saturday, October 6, 1832 • Various
... discuss that, please," I said with hauteur; "and we won't be too emphatic about what is past. It is past. I'll find out what is a proper scale of expenditure for a young lawyer's wife in New York, and I shall not exceed it. I've been living very economically for the sphere that seemed open to me. Perhaps I ought not to have tried it; but I think you should blame those who lured me into extravagance and then deserted me. I've ...
— The Bacillus of Beauty - A Romance of To-day • Harriet Stark
... control, that is the control of the manufacture, wholesale selling, storage, and distribution of foodstuffs lay in the licensing provisions of the Food Control law. Any handler of foods, not an immediate producer or a retailer whose gross sales did not exceed $100,000 a year, could be forced to carry on his business under license, and authority was provided to issue regulations prescribing just, reasonable, non-discriminatory and fair storage charges, commissions, profits, and practices. ...
— Herbert Hoover - The Man and His Work • Vernon Kellogg
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