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Letter "P" » pleadings
«If criminals wanted to grind justice to a halt, they could do it by banding together and all pleading not guilty.»
Author: Dorothy Wright Wilson
| About:
Crime
| Keywords:
banding, criminals, criminal justice, grind, halt, not guilty, pleading, pleadings
«Her eyebrows are clipped parentheses, and she paints her face for the last days of the Weimar Republic. Frizzy orange curls grow in her wild hair like snapdragons pleading for water.»
«A poor man is shunned by all his relatives - how much more do his friends avoid him! Though he pursues them with pleading, they are nowhere to be found»
«Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.»
«If at the end of the week's work, and on receiving his wages, he were to ask his employer for a larger sum, pleading that, though he could not justly claim it and did not really deserve it, yet he expected it, he would not only receive the larger sum but would, doubtless, be discharged from his post. Yet in spiritual things men do not think it to be either foolish or selfish to ask for these blessings»
Author: James Allen
(Statesman)
| About:
Blessings,
Selfishness
| Keywords:
discharges, discharging, pleaded, pleadings, pleads, receiving
«The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.»
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