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More "Unabridged" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... book canvasser should come to your door and offer you two volumes as large as Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, containing nearly a thousand pages in each volume, and illustrated with ten thousand pictures that interested you; and suppose that within the limits of the volumes there would be the equivalent of a book on dressmaking ...
— Wholesale Price List of Newspapers and Periodicals • D. D. Cottrell's Subscription Agency
... fellow gave me once up on the Yukon," explained Bridge. "I used to use a few words he'd never heard before, so he called me 'The Unabridged,' which was too long. The fellows shortened it to 'Bridge' and it stuck. It has always stuck, and now I haven't any other. I even think of myself, now, as ...
— The Mucker • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... had come. We have no actual proof of it, but undoubtedly these announcements were heard on Mars, and might better be utilized as signals to that planet than anything that has yet been suggested. He had a fatal faculty of stringing together big words from Webster's "Unabridged," and connecting them with conjunctions quite irrespective of the sense, so that the product was like waves of hot air from a vast, reverberating furnace. It was the practice of this orator to jump from his ...
— A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel • S. G. Bayne
... away Helen from his hopes—no, personal violence could produce suffering but feeble compared with that under which the victim would writhe as Guzzy poured forth the torrent of scornful invective which he had compiled from the memories of his bilious brain and the pages of his "Webster Unabridged." ...
— Romance of California Life • John Habberton
... enough to fill a volume, obstacles enough to fill a volume, and development of character enough to fill a tome thick as "Webster's Unabridged," before the happy end of the beginning ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 9, No. 52, February, 1862 • Various
... necessarily be of great interest to know the attitude which so great a thinker as Darwin adopted towards Christianity, revelation, and other matters of theology, we give unabridged two letters which were written without a view to publication, and were published after his death without the authorisation of his representatives. Having been widely published, however, it is right that they ...
— Life of Charles Darwin • G. T. (George Thomas) Bettany
... Generation."—Consult any reliable unabridged dictionary of the English language for evidence of the fact that the term "generation," as connoting a period of time, has many meanings, among which are "race, kind, class." The term is not confined to a body of people ...
— Jesus the Christ - A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy - Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern • James Edward Talmage
... Ives' "Essays Before a Sonata" was originally published in 1920 by The Knickerbocker Press. It has also been republished unabridged by Dover Publications, Inc., in a ...
— Essays Before a Sonata • Charles Ives
... is that of the translation of the Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione by R. H. M. Elwes, as printed by Dover Publications (NY):1955), ISBN 0-486-20250-X. This text is "an unabridged and unaltered republication of the Bohn Library edition originally published by George ...
— On the Improvement of the Understanding • Baruch Spinoza [Benedict de Spinoza]
... collection of American and English poetry ever published, including 3,120 unabridged poems from ...
— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan
... of sense, as well as wit, in Sam Lawson's sayings in "Old Town Folks." As this book is not to be as large as Worcester's Unabridged Dictionary, I can only give room ...
— The Wit of Women - Fourth Edition • Kate Sanborn
... as inverted are Platen, K.P. Moritz, and Iffland. Platen was clearly a congenital invert, who sought, however, the satisfaction of his impulses in Platonic friendship; his homosexual poems and the recently published unabridged edition of his diary render him an interesting object of study; see for a sympathetic account of him, Ludwig Frey, "Aus dem Seelenleben des Grafen Platen," Jahrbuch fuer sexuelle Zwischenstufen, vols. i and vi. Various kings and potentates ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis
... your new unabridged is the best kit of tools I possess in my library."—Jack London, ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) • Various
... syllable of it. No, Rudolph; I can't help it if the vinaigretted beauties of your boyhood were unabridged dictionaries of prudery. You see, I know almost all the swearwords there are. And I read the newspapers, and medical books, and even the things that boys chalk up on fences. In consequence I am not a bit whiteminded, because if you use your mind ...
— The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck - A Comedy of Limitations • James Branch Cabell
... which this e-text is based, contains the statement, "Complete and unabridged, except for the rules governing ...
— Baltimore Catechism No. 3 (of 4) • Anonymous
... of Zola's works in circulation in this country; but while their number has been added to from time to time, it has not been found possible to include the whole of the Rougon-Macquart series. In 1894-5, however, the Lutetian Society issued to its members a literal and unabridged translation of six of the novels, made by writers of such eminence as Havelock Ellis, Arthur Symons, and Ernest Dowson. These are the only translations of these works which are of any value to the student, but they are ...
— A Zola Dictionary • J. G. Patterson
... for the mastery of this system is to open the unabridged dictionary at any point and copy out lists of words, writing the words as they ordinarily appear in one column, and in an adjoining column the phonetic form of the word. When the list is complete, cover one column and reproduce the other from an application of the principles ...
— The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language - Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric • Sherwin Cody
... translated from the french by Martha Walker Cook. The original edition was published in 1863; a fourth, revised edition (1880) was used in making this e-text. This e-text reproduces the fourth edition essentially unabridged, with original spellings intact, numerous typographical errors corrected, and words italicized in the original text capitalized in this e-text. In making this e-text, each page was cut out of the original book with an x-acto knife to feed the pages into an Automatic ...
— Life of Chopin • Franz Liszt
... degree, or honor, is called the Baccalaureate. This title is given also to such as take the first degree in divinity, law, or physic, in certain European universities. The word appears in various forms in different languages. The following are taken from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. "French, bachelier; Spanish, bachiller, a bachelor of arts and a babbler; Portuguese, bacharel, id., and bacello, a shoot or twig of the vine; Italian, baccelliere, a bachelor of arts; bacchio, a staff; bachetta, a rod; Latin, bacillus, ...
— A Collection of College Words and Customs • Benjamin Homer Hall
... Including the unabridged third edition (1903) of Henry Yule's annotated translation, as revised by Henri Cordier; together with Cordier's later volume ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... they themselves invented their gestures (see above, p. 23). Certainly they do not get their first signs through "any one's suggestion," they form them for themselves, but, so far as I see, only through imitation and the hereditary expressive movements. The signs are in great part themselves unabridged imitations. The agreement, or "convention," which many teachers of deaf-mutes assume, and which would introduce an entirely causeless, not to say mysterious, principle, consists in this, that all deaf-mutes in the beginning imitate the same thing in the same way. Thus, through ...
— The Mind of the Child, Part II • W. Preyer
... of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary through Mrs. N.B. Wilder, of Somerville, for ...
— American Missionary, Volume 43, No. 3, March, 1889 • Various
... boiling, and the owner had recourse to his godson. Ling told the story, unabridged, as ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1917 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... edition, first published in 1971, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the work originally published by Moffat, Yard and Company, New York, in 1917 under the title Problems of ...
— Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts • Herbert Silberer
... as you sailors are supposed to remark," exclaimed Earle in tones of ineffable disgust. "If that doesn't beat the band! Oh, Dick Cavendish—and Wilfrid Earle, you—you twenty-volume unabridged fools, why on earth couldn't you have waited another two or three seconds before shootin' and so have made sure of getting the brute? Kick me, Dick, and I'll kick you, for we both deserve it! It was the chance of a lifetime, and ...
— In Search of El Dorado • Harry Collingwood
... /n./ Syn. {epoch}. Webster's Unabridged makes these words almost synonymous, but 'era' more often connotes a span of time rather than a point in time, whereas the reverse is true for {epoch}. The {epoch} ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0
... is provided along with the unabridged Moby Thesaurus main corpus to frame the traditional concept divisions that may be useful if the licensee is considering converting the flat-file Moby Thesaurus to the concept/index scheme. Note that no index is herein provided — ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... reprint book, upon which this e-text is based, contains the statement, "Complete and unabridged, except for the rules governing ...
— Baltimore Catechism No. 3 (of 4) • Anonymous
... music, the only criticism we have to pass upon it is that it changes its subject too often; in this particular it resembles the dictionary,—in fact, we believe "Die Walkuere" can be termed the Webster's Unabridged of musical language. Herr Wagner has his own way of doing business. He goes at it on the principle of the twelfth man, who holds out against the eleven other jurors, and finally brings them around to ...
— Second Book of Tales • Eugene Field
... "Essays Before a Sonata" was originally published in 1920 by The Knickerbocker Press. It has also been republished unabridged by Dover Publications, Inc., in a 1962 ...
— Essays Before a Sonata • Charles Ives
... no doubt, had the best command of language of any American author prior to our day. Those who have read his ponderous but rather disconnected romance known as "Websters Unabridged Dictionary, or How One Word Led on to Another." will agree with me that he was smart. Noah never lacked for a word by which to express himself. He was a brainy man and a ...
— Remarks • Bill Nye
... dictionary (the first reference book) should be taken up first with the pocket dictionaries when these are used in class and the children should be practiced in discovering and understanding the kinds of information given with each word. Then, when the unabridged is attacked later, the essentials will be familiar, and the mind freer to attack the somewhat complex problems of arrangement and added information, e.g., synonyms, ...
— Library Work with Children • Alice I. Hazeltine
... the fares, which were pretty heavy, and carrying with me what money I had been able to save—this was eight hundred dollars, I should say—and it was all in silver coin and a good deal of a nuisance because of its weight. And we had another nuisance, which was an Unabridged Dictionary. It weighed about a thousand pounds, and was a ruinous expense, because the stage-coach Company charged for extra baggage by the ounce. We could have kept a family for a time on what that dictionary cost in the ...
— Chapters from My Autobiography • Mark Twain
... following: morocco travelling-bag, stereoscope with six views, silver napkin-ring, compound microscope, lady's work-box, sheet-music or books worth $5.00. For twenty, at $1.60 each, select any one of the following: a fine croquet-set, a powerful opera-glass, a toilet case, Webster's Dictionary (unabridged), sheet-music or ...
— The Nursery, Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1875 • Various
... unabridged translation of this oath, see Smith's "Dictionary of Antiquities" (revised edition), ...
— A Day In Old Athens • William Stearns Davis
... in 2006, is an unabridged republication of the work published by Angus and Robertson, Ltd., Sydney, ...
— The Magic Pudding • Norman Lindsay
... Baccalaureate. This title is given also to such as take the first degree in divinity, law, or physic, in certain European universities. The word appears in various forms in different languages. The following are taken from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. "French, bachelier; Spanish, bachiller, a bachelor of arts and a babbler; Portuguese, bacharel, id., and bacello, a shoot or twig of the vine; Italian, baccelliere, a bachelor of arts; bacchio, a staff; bachetta, ...
— A Collection of College Words and Customs • Benjamin Homer Hall
... LES MISERABLES.—The only unabridged English translation of "the grandest and best Novel ever written." One large octavo vol., paper covers, $1.00, or cloth ...
— Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals - As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac • William H. Armstrong
... the Bible to be kept in the school as the standard of moral truth, as the dictionary is kept there as the standard of words and their definitions. As the unabridged dictionary contains all the words of the English language, so the Bible contains all the truths of Christianity. Every book has a part of the words of the dictionary, so every Christian creed has a part of the truths of the Bible. As there never was a book written that contained ...
— Thirty Years In Hell - Or, From Darkness to Light • Bernard Fresenborg
... ride Sam talked of the prospect for rain, of the price of beef, and of the musical glasses. You would have thought he had never had a brother or a sweetheart or an enemy on earth. There are some subjects too big even for the words in the "Unabridged." Knowing this phase of the feud code, but not having practised it sufficiently, I overdid the thing by telling some slightly funny anecdotes. Sam laughed at exactly the right place—laughed with his mouth. When I caught sight ...
— Whirligigs • O. Henry
... Miss Pardoe, Author of "The Confessions of a Pretty Woman," "Life of Maria de Medicis." etc. Complete and unabridged. Philadelphia. Peterson & Brothers. ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume V, Number 29, March, 1860 - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various
... Liszt and translated from the french by Martha Walker Cook. The original edition was published in 1863; a fourth, revised edition (1880) was used in making this e-text. This e-text reproduces the fourth edition essentially unabridged, with original spellings intact, numerous typographical errors corrected, and words italicized in the original text capitalized in this e-text. In making this e-text, each page was cut out of the original book with an x-acto knife to feed the pages into an Automatic Document ...
— Life of Chopin • Franz Liszt
... clodings." He took Alf's knapsack and on opening it, what do you suppose was in it? Well, if you are not a Yankee and good at guessing, I will tell you, if you won't say anything about it, for Alf might get mad if he were to hear it. He found Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, Cruden's Concordance, Macauley's History of England, Jean Valjean, Fantine, Cosset, Les Miserables, The Heart of Midlothian, Ivanhoe, Guy Mannering, Rob Roy, Shakespeare, the History of Ancient Rome, and many others which I have now forgotten. He carried ...
— "Co. Aytch" - Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment - or, A Side Show of the Big Show • Sam R. Watkins
... the Landing and moved in, and of course a far-sighted but easy-going journeyman printer wandered along and started the "Napoleon Weekly Telegraph and Literary Repository"—a paper with a Latin motto from the Unabridged dictionary, and plenty of "fat" conversational tales and double-leaded poetry—all for two dollars a year, strictly in advance. Of course the merchants forwarded the orders at once to New York—and never heard ...
— The Gilded Age, Complete • Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
... from any other person to Mr. Kenyon. However, as you were probably aware when you sent the letter, no blame will rest on your shoulders, or on those of anyone else, in this instance. Still, be very careful in future, because letter-sending, unabridged, is sometimes a risky thing to do. You are to remember that I always want all the documents in the case, and I want them with nothing eliminated. I am very much obliged to you for ...
— A Woman Intervenes • Robert Barr
... will be noticed, constantly alludes to future organic laws, that are to carry out the glosses, and are intended to regulate the enjoyment of these unabridged freedoms, to the end that they collide neither with one another nor with the public safety. Later on, the organic laws are called into existence by the "Friends of Order," and all the above named freedoms are so regulated that, in their enjoyment, ...
— The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte • Karl Marx
... incidents enough to fill a volume, obstacles enough to fill a volume, and development of character enough to fill a tome thick as "Webster's Unabridged," before the happy end of the beginning of the Wade-Damer ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 9, No. 52, February, 1862 • Various
... should come to your door and offer you two volumes as large as Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, containing nearly a thousand pages in each volume, and illustrated with ten thousand pictures that interested you; and suppose that within the limits of the volumes there would be the equivalent of a book on dressmaking (carefully ...
— Wholesale Price List of Newspapers and Periodicals • D. D. Cottrell's Subscription Agency
... edition, first published in 1954, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the English translation originally published by Macmillan and Company, Ltd., in 1921. This edition is published by special arrangement with Macmillan and ...
— Tragic Sense Of Life • Miguel de Unamuno
... the reduced prices will begin March 1, 1883, and will continue until the thousands of copies set apart for this sale are exhausted. This is the authorized, latest revised and unabridged edition—in every respect the same type, paper, binding, etc., as we have sold ...
— India: What can it teach us? - A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge • F. Max Mueller
... assortment of attractive and desirable books for girls by standard and favorite authors. The books are printed on a good quality of paper in large clear type. Each title is complete and unabridged. Bound in clothene, ornamented on the sides and back with attractive illustrative designs and the title stamped on ...
— The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp • Katherine Stokes
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