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Use in Literature

Clauses

On your permit you were referred to certain other clauses not set out therein, which might be seen at the Mayor's office.–Samuel Butler (1835-1902) in Erewhon Revisited.

The Jewish interpretation of the clause is untenable in the light of the doctrine of the Correlation of the Physical Forces.–T.S. Ackland in The Story of Creation as told by Theology and by Science.

On the other hand, the legislature made all appropriations, including those for the salaries of the governor and judges, and was only limited in its capacity to enact statutes by the clause invariably inserted in these patents.–Brooks Adams in The Emancipation of Massachusetts.

There is an immense amount of Portsmouth as well as George Jaffrey in that final clause.–Thomas Bailey Aldrich in An Old Town By The Sea.

The last clause was not quite so satisfactory.–Horatio Alger in Facing the World.

This Gianni did, but with a clause leaving to himself a favorite mare of Buoso's, the best in all Tuscany.–Dante Alighieri in Divine Comedy: Inferno (tr Norton).

He paused long between each clause, as if the facts were revealed to him slowly.–Grant Allen in An African Millionaire.

Probably, if it were considered to be desirable to give to Parliament a more direct control over questions of foreign policy than it possesses now, the better way would be not to require a formal vote to the treaty clause by clause.–Walter Bagehot in The English Constitution.

Whatever, too, may be the case hereafter, when a better system has been struck out, at present the House does all the work of legislation, all the detail, and all the clauses itself.–Walter Bagehot in The English Constitution.

As the result of a clause in the deed of entail, he is now Comte de Brambourg, a fact which often makes him roar with laughter among his friends in the atelier.–Honoré de Balzac in The Celibates.

• Preface v
• Use in Literature 1
• Clauses 1
• Clauses – "Act" 13
• Clauses – "Being" 14
• Clauses – "Bill" 15
• Clauses – "Clear" 16
• Clauses – "Constitution" 16
• Clauses – "Contract" 17
• Clauses – "Effect" 17
• Clauses – "Great" 18
• Clauses – "Land" 18
• Clauses – "Paper" 19
• Clauses – "Power" 19
• Clauses – "Reading" 20
• Clauses – "Right" 21
• Clauses – "Saving" 22
• Clauses – "Second" 23
• Clauses – "Sentence" 23
• Clauses – "Shall" 24
• Clauses – "Stated" 24
• Clauses – "Text" 26
• Clauses – "Words" 26
• Clauses – "Years" 27
• Nonfiction Usage 28
• Script Usage 28
• Historical Usage 28
• Presidential Usage 29
• Journalism Usage 29
• Legal Usage 35
• Governmental Usage 46
• Patent Usage 52
• Bibliographic Usage 53
• Encyclopedic Usage 130
• Lexicographic Usage 147
• Index 190