All these encomiums on his son, and animadversions on Lord. From Wordnik.com. [The Kellys and the O'Kellys] Reference
She did not reply with animadversions on the city of her birth. From Wordnik.com. [Murder Without Icing]
American people fell under the animadversions of the French Directory. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Louisville paper will more than justify any animadversions which I may make. From Wordnik.com. [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference
The work, though written without party feeling, met with sharp animadversions from political scribblers. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Oliver Goldsmith] Reference
I should entirely exclude poor Milicent in my general animadversions against the ladies of my acquaintance. From Wordnik.com. [The Tenant of Wildfell Hall] Reference
In his animadversions, Mr Fletcher suggests nothing so much as a man disposed to denounce alcohol while sipping sherry. From Wordnik.com. [2010 January - Telic Thoughts] Reference
I am so thoroughly anglicised that my animadversions on the English are more likely to be self-deprecatory than xenophobic. From Wordnik.com. [1588 and All That] Reference
His animadversions had been a tactical error; they almost succeeded in swinging the secretaries over to the pro-rug faction. From Wordnik.com. [Murder to Go]
Having read your animadversions on the additional matter introduced in my second edition of an "Account of Marocco, Timbuctoo," &c. From Wordnik.com. [An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa] Reference
For animadversions on Darwin's Dangerous Idea (and on Darwin's dangerous idea), see my "Dennett's Dangerous Idea," Books and Culture. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
‘No, certainly; I exonerate my sister from such degraded tastes, and my mother too, if you included her in your animadversions.’. From Wordnik.com. [The Tenant of Wildfell Hall] Reference
The forty-seventh notebook is devoted almost entirely to a replanning of the subject of his early animadversions, the Ligurian coast. From Wordnik.com. [The Shape of Things to Come] Reference
If those things which in our animadversions upon Matthew we have said upon that place do not please any, let these things be added: 1. From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
I replied, when I could command my voice, with some very severe animadversions on bribery and corruption, with which the 'Sheriff' and. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Of two facts, however, I feel perfectly certain; one is, that the animadversions made in America will not in the least degree impair her. From Wordnik.com. [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference
Mathews had no warmer admirers, no truer, no more constant friends than those whose occasional animadversions would thus excite his ire. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2] Reference
It expressed no gratitude to England, devoting its energy rather to animadversions on Napoleon III who was held to be personally responsible. From Wordnik.com. [Great Britain and the American Civil War] Reference
If any gentleman wished to set up a marked livery for his servants, he could not do so without being the subject of animadversions in the rowdy. From Wordnik.com. [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference
Now Millborne was not so soundly asleep as to prevent his hearing these animadversions that were almost execrations, and many more of the same sort. From Wordnik.com. [Life's Little Ironies] Reference
There is Aesopian language, certainly; animadversions about western culture and traditional Chinese culture mask comments about political conditions. From Wordnik.com. [An Exchange on China] Reference
Of this kind of sealing chiefly have we that long discourse of Salmasius, in the vindication of his Jus Atticum against the animadversions of Heraldus. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed] Reference
Galbraith has animadversions on San Francisco, Paris, TWA, and many other matters, and Harrison Salisbury adds chapters on Korea, Vietnam, and Cambodia. From Wordnik.com. [Traveling Light] Reference
It is then that the virtuous indignation of the public should be enabled to manifest itself through the regular animadversions of the most competent laws. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
It is in answer to this last work that Owen wrote the animadversions which form the digression in his preface to his work on the Perseverance of the Saints. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed] Reference
Had I slighted such a sum, I might have exposed myself to the animadversions of my companions, who would probably have thought me possessed of great wealth. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Nubia] Reference
There are perhaps half a score of newspapers published in London whose animadversions I, as a clergyman, might have reason to respect — even if I did not fear them. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Wortle's school] Reference
James prefaces his animadversions with this quotation. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10)] Reference
There were many animadversions to make, many counter suggestions to offer. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
While perusing the customary comforting animadversions on the conduct of those. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond] Reference
This excited not only the animadversions of the public, but the anger of the favorite. From Wordnik.com. [Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History] Reference
The remaining energies of Algernon's mind were devoted to animadversions on swift bowling. From Wordnik.com. [Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete] Reference
The plays of Shakespeare did not escape the most bitter animadversions of the moral reformers. From Wordnik.com. [For Whom Shakespeare Wrote] Reference
This discourse of his cannot satisfy the attentive reader, but deserveth certain animadversions. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
This he tore into shreds, with animadversions on the quality of the rags that had produced it, and opened the important paper once more. From Wordnik.com. [Sandra Belloni — Complete] Reference
England's colonial policy that she was ever ready to accept with too little question the animadversions of the governors upon the governed. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III (of 4)] Reference
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