"ABC" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... lips, porch, portal, portico, propylon^, door; gate, gateway; postern, wicket, threshold, vestibule; propylaeum^; skirts, border &c (edge) 231. first stage, first blush, first glance, first impression, first sight. rudiments, elements, outlines, grammar, alphabet, ABC. V. begin, start, commence; conceive, open, dawn, set in, take its rise, enter upon, enter; set out &c (depart) 293; embark in; incept^. initiate, launch, inaugurate. inchoate, rise, arise, originate. usher in; lead off, lead the way; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... tone of superiority. "I've sat and looked on a little when mother's been teaching the children their ABC. It's nothing at all if your upper ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo
... occasion of A B C's occurrence we confidently predict that D will follow. But, however often we have observed such a sequence, and however many similar sequences we may have observed, we are no nearer to knowing why D should follow ABC: we can only know that it always does: and on the strength of that knowledge we infer, with a probability which we do no doubt for practical purposes treat as a certainty, that it always will. But on reflection we can see no reason why a wave of ether of a certain length ...
— Philosophy and Religion - Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge • Hastings Rashdall |
