"Well-chosen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Flowering shrubs of well-chosen kinds are in leaf two-thirds of the year, and their leafless branches and twigs are a pleasing relief to the structure's cold nakedness even through the winter. I have seen a house, whose mistress was too exclusively fond of annuals, stand waiting for its shoes and stockings ...
— The Amateur Garden • George W. Cable
... onward movement when coupled with the certainty of throwing the main strength into the action at the most important point,—a thing altogether impossible when keeping strictly on the defensive. In fact, a general who occupies a well-chosen position, where his movements are free, has the advantage of observing the enemy's approach; his forces, previously arranged in a suitable manner upon the position, aided by batteries placed so as to produce the greatest effect, may make the enemy pay very dearly for his advance ...
— The Art of War • Baron Henri de Jomini
... the talking. He is to be given an opportunity to ask questions as well as to answer the queries put by the teacher. Short written exercises of about ten minutes' duration can be given to advantage in each of these recitations. In this way the entire class writes upon a well-chosen question or solves a numerical chemical problem and thus a great deal of time is saved. The quiz room should be well provided with blackboards which may be used to great advantage in the writing of equations and the solution of chemical problems ...
— College Teaching - Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College • Paul Klapper
... With some well-chosen words, Perhaps, I briefly might describe to her The leper's throng! What say'st ...
— The German Classics, v. 20 - Masterpieces of German Literature • Various
... 7, opposite Hone's, "The Percy Anecdotes," that well-chosen and fortunate selection of every sort ...
— Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury
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