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Ever need a fact or quotation on "hotbeds"? Designed for speechwriters, journalists, writers, researchers, students, professors, teachers, historians, academics, scrapbookers, trivia buffs and word lovers, this is the largest book ever created for this word. It represents a compilation of "single sentences" and/or "short paragraphs" from a variety of sources with a linguistic emphasis on anything relating to the term "hotbeds," including non-conventional usage and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities. This is not an encyclopedic book, but rather a collage of statements made using the word "hotbeds," or related words (e.g. inflections, synonyms or antonyms). This title is one of a series of books that considers all major vocabulary words. The entries in each book cover all parts of speech (noun, verb, adverb or adjective usage) as well as use in modern slang, pop culture, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This data dump results in many unexpected examples for "hotbeds," since the editorial decision to include or exclude terms is purely a computer-generated linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under fair use conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain.

Use in Literature

Hotbeds

I was actually among them, in the very nest and hotbed of the slavers, in spite of every difficulty.–Samuel White Baker in Ismailia.

The throne served as a hotbed for adultery, and the increase of this inviting crime marks the decline of the dogmas of the Catholic Church.–Honoré de Balzac in Honorine.

It is uncommonly pleasant to leave these hotbeds and once more to breathe the cool, keen breath of the Trades, laden with the health of the broad Atlantic.–Richard Burton in To the Gold Coast for Gold.

In the following year they were protected from insects, artificially fertilised, and the seed thus procured was sown in a hotbed.–Charles Darwin in The Different Forms Of Flowers On Plants Of The Same Species.

This is a restless, socialistic country, and Chicago is the very hotbed and center of it.–Theodore Dreiser in The Titan.

You are making a very hotbed of your intellect, while you heart is daily becoming a dreary desert.–Augusta J. Evans in Beulah.

He ordered things under glass, so that his table, at midnight or thereabouts, resembled a hotbed that favors the bell system.–Edna Ferber in One Basket.

If Christian perfection be necessary to salvation, I shall never be saved; my heart is a very hotbed for sinful thoughts, and when I decide on an action I scarcely remember to look to my Redeemer for direction.–Elizabeth Gaskell in Life of Charlotte Bronte (ver 1).

Bad water, when you are in a hotbed of fever, is a terrible privation.–H. Rider Haggard in Cetywayo and his White Neighbours.

That comes of your speculatin' to Lowell; and, I vow, them factorin' towns will corrupt our youth of both sexes, and become hotbeds of iniquity.–Thomas Chandler Haliburton in The Clockmaker.

• Preface iv
• Use in Literature 1
• Hotbeds 1
• Nonfiction Usage 4
• Spoken Usage 4
• Journalism Usage 4
• Patent Usage 5
• Bibliographic Usage 5
• Encyclopedic Usage 9
• Lexicographic Usage 12
• Index 18