"Misused" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... triumphed over nature; the environment has produced its type. Difficult though the organization of these people may be, a coincidence of favoring conditions may place an opportunity in the hands of a super-leader. If this comes, one can be sure that California will be both very astonished and very misused." ...
— An American Idyll - The Life of Carleton H. Parker • Cornelia Stratton Parker
... listen. His only impression after the lapse of some time was, that in the meanwhile Fleischmann had misused the same words, "German art," an endless number of times. Turning to Doctor Wilhelm ...
— Atlantis • Gerhart Hauptmann
... no matter how close the relationship. The careful member of the family suffers at seeing his belongings misused and destroyed by the careless one. Discourage borrowing among the members of a family. Teach each one to have all necessary articles of their own and ...
— Social Life - or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society • Maud C. Cooke
... world's burden after, why all this pudder and preparation,—why torment us with all this unnecessary sympathy? As if the childish pleasure of getting his gilt robes and sceptre again could tempt him to act over again his misused station,—as if, at his years and with his experience, anything was left but ...
— The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 • Charles Lamb
... be sadly wanting in nasal sensibility, for, on attempting to advance through one of the narrow side streets dividing the pretty villas, we were obliged to beat a hasty retreat; and this was not the only pretty lane so vilely misused, much to the reproach of ...
— Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo • W. Cope Devereux
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