"Incomplete" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... lines (1) are obviously incomplete by themselves, but if we add another four, in reverse order, (2) we get a centred and symmetric motive ...
— Line and Form (1900) • Walter Crane
... y rogando. A careless and incorrect construction which leaves the sentence incomplete. Better y rogaron. Notice the omission of the conjunction que before the subjunctive decidiera. This is a frequent ...
— Legends, Tales and Poems • Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
... remained incomplete. Gogol began to suffer from a nervous illness which induced extreme hypochondria. He became excessively religious, fell under the influence of pietists and a fanatical priest, sank more and more into mysticism, and went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem to worship ...
— The Inspector-General • Nicolay Gogol
... threw my head back to a glinting whizz that traversed the pilot-house, in at one shutter-hole and out at the other. Looking past that mad helmsman, who was shaking the empty rifle and yelling at the shore, I saw vague forms of men running bent double, leaping, gliding, distinct, incomplete, evanescent. Something big appeared in the air before the shutter, the rifle went overboard, and the man stepped back swiftly, looked at me over his shoulder in an extraordinary, profound, familiar manner, and fell upon my feet. The side of ...
— Heart of Darkness • Joseph Conrad
... malos! - the Gypsies are very bad people,' said the Spaniards of old times. They are cheats; they are highwaymen; they practise sorcery; and, lest the catalogue of their offences should be incomplete, a formal charge of cannibalism was brought against them. Cheats they have always been, and highwaymen, and if not sorcerers, they have always done their best to merit that appellation, by arrogating to themselves supernatural powers; but that they were addicted to ...
— The Zincali - An Account of the Gypsies of Spain • George Borrow
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